Open Source -- Then and Now
"Few have been closer to the day-to-day processes involved in open sourcing the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) than Ray Gans, a manager at Sun Microsystems with a long history of…
Acronis Teams with Novell
Acronis, Inc., a technological leader in storage management software, announced it is a Silver Technology Partner with Novell and is committed to the development and delivery of technology…
When Open Source is the Holy Hand Grenade
"In our recent conversation with Danese Cooper, she brought up how open source is sometimes used as a market disrupter. If I understood her correctly, there are times where competitors are locked…
HP and MIT Team Up On Open Source Archiving
HP and the MIT Libraries today announced the formation of the DSpace Foundation, a non-profit organization that will provide support to the growing community of institutions that use DSpace, an…
OpenSolaris ZFS vs. Linux ext3 RAID5
"I asked Dan McClary for a big favor recently: use his general UNIX knowledge and graduate-level statistics voodoo to produce a report highlighting performance differences between two different OS…
Leverage Nagios with plug-ins you write
Nagios is open source monitoring software that scans hosts, services, and networks for problems. Learn more about Nagios and find out what new system monitoring possibilities exist with this…
GnuCash 2.2.0 Released
The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.0, the new stable release of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software. With this new release series, GnuCash is available on Microsoft…
Oracle and Symantec Certify Veritas Data Center Solutions on Oracle Enterprise Linux
In response to growing customer demand for the Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program, Oracle and Symantec today announced certification of Veritas data center software with Oracle Enterprise…
The future of Windows should be open source
In a recent interview with Microsoft's COO Kevin Turner, the executive was asked about the future of Windows. In response, Turner had this to say: "Certainly, this last year has been an…
SAP Certifies Its Applications To Run On Red Hat
Red Hat today announced that SAP AG, the largest provider of business software solutions in the world, has certified the SAP NetWeaver platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform. The…