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Linux Opportunity Buried In Unix Market Share Data - Cnet News
last week, ibm announced that over the past 10 years, it has gone from also-ran to first place in the unix server market, claiming 35 percent of the $61 billion market in 2008 to sun's 29 percent share, as noted in the post-bulletin . good for ibm ...
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Linux Today - Running Ubuntu On Vista With Virtual Box
[ thanks to ken leyba for this link. ] "at work i prefer to use ubuntu linux as my primary operating system and run windows xp in virtual box for specific tasks that must be run under windows.
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Ssh Announces End-to-end Enterprise Security Solution For Linux On Ibm System Z
ssh communications security corp. , a world-leading provider of enterprise security solutions and end-to-end communications security, and the original developer of the secure shell protocol, today introduced ssh tectia® server for linux on ibm system z.
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Open Source Protectionism? - Zdnet Blogs
i just caught a rather interesting piece by fellow blogger dana blankenhorn on the subject of the “value and values” found in open source ecosystems. near the end, he references an article on infoworld which questions whether it is wise to ...
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Netbooks Will Boost Adoption Of Linux, Says Novell Cto - New York Times
a surge in demand for netbooks is helping drive business for linux, as the devices are designed to be low-cost with smaller storage, according to novell 's chief technology and strategy officer for linux. " people typically don't care what operating ...
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At 17, Is Linux Still Wet Behind The Ears?
it was a big week for our favorite technology last week, as true believers no doubt already know. not only was linux 2.6.27 released -- causing no small amount of discussion on slashdot -- but the operating system itself also turned 17 years old. the linux journal article noting that momentous day had already received well more than a thousand diggs by friday.
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Cloud Server Hosting Provider, Gogrid, States Windows Is Its Preferred Cloud Operating System Compared To Linux
with 8 months of cloud server delivery data, windows is selected more often in the gogrid "control in the cloud™" cloud computing platform. windows server 2003 and more recently, windows server 2008 are favored on gogrid's cloud infrastructure.
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The Open Road - Cnet News
good for ibm, but the real news in this unix market share carve-up isn't unix at all: it's linux. linux server growth has been outpacing unix server growth for some time, with linux gaining more than a full percentage point of market share to land at ...
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At 17, Is Linux Still Wet Behind The Ears? - Linux Insider
linux turned 17 this week, just short of adulthood in most places. however, is it mature enough for the mass market? it's a question often asked on the linux blogs, but the answers still keep coming: sure it is; no it isn't; it doesn't matter. free ...
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Linux Opportunity Buried In Unix Market Share Data
unix got a headline regarding ibm's rising share of the server market, but the opportunity lies in the other operating system, whose server growth has been outpacing unix's for some time.
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Linux Today - Openoffice.org 3.0 Releases Monday--or Get It Early
[ thanks to sakshi garg for this link. ] "as download squad notes: "just pick one in your region, navigate to the folder marked 'stable' and grab the appropriate files for your operating system from the '3.0.0' folder."
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Open Sourcers Welcome Bbc Iplayer For Linux - Silicon.com
the open source consortium (osc) has welcomed the bbc's move to make its iplayer online on-demand tv service available for streaming on operating systems other than microsoft windows. the osc was one of the groups critical of the bbc's decision to ...
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Canonical Joins Linux Foundation - Silicon.com
canonical, the company that sponsors the linux-based operating system ubuntu, has joined the linux foundation. ubuntu community members had already been participating in workgroups at the foundation, including the linux standard base, desktop ...
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A Baby Named Linux
reader christian nielsen wrote from sweden to tell us he and his girlfriend have named their baby linux, after the operating system, and attached this darling photo.
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Should Software Developers Do It For Themselves?
we don't need no stinkin' management reg reader workshop on march 7, 1992, a little-known finnish software developer called linus torvalds issued version 0.13 of his open source operating system as version 0.95. it was a bold move, which took place (according to the faq ) because "linux is very close to a reliable/stable system". by moving the numbering system from incrementing from ...
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Green Hills Software To Demonstrate Secure Hosting Of Iconics ... - Consumer Electronics Net
santa barbara, ca -- (marketwire) -- 10/13/08 -- green hills software, inc., the technology leader in device software optimization (dso) and real-time operating systems (rtos), will demonstrate its secure environment for hosting supervisory control ...
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Chelsio Adds Iscsi Boot Software To Centralize Management And Lower ... - Earthtimes
author : chelsio communications, inc. sunnyvale, calif. , oct. 13 /prnewswire/ -- chelsio communications, inc., the leading provider of 10-gigabit ethernet (10gbe) adapters and asic solutions, today announced availability of iscsi boot software for ...
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Nsw Considers Linux Laptops
nsw secondary school students could be issued with $56 million worth of linux-based laptops as part of kevin rudd's digital education revolution.
australianit.news.com.au

Netbook Returns Blamed On Linux 'teething Problems'
higher return rates for linux-based netbooks don't necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to ubuntu backer canonical. the return rate on linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for linux, according to canonical. ...
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Ubuntu Linux Goes Mobile - Silicon.com
a version of the popular ubuntu linux operating system is coming later this year for mobile internet devices and subnotebooks. canonical, the commercial sponsor of ubuntu, has said it plans to demonstrate the new version, ubuntu netbook remix, at the ...
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