Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Freedom, the Marathon, Open Source Software and Beer; Linux KVM gains steam

MuleSoft Helps Canonical Compete in the Linux Enterprise Server Space | Linux KVM virtualization gains steam in cloud computing market

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Freedom, the Marathon, Open Source Software and Beer
Phil Odence: In honor of Patriots' and Marathon Day (and cause it's my birthday) let's look at the concept of freedom in the software and running worlds.  Read More


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MuleSoft Helps Canonical Compete in the Linux Enterprise Server Space
Alan Shimel: MuleSoft and Canonical announced a partnership in releasing an updated Tomcat package for Debian and Ubuntu. Read More

Linux KVM virtualization gains steam in cloud computing market
Two major vendors are using KVM virtualization software to create cloud platforms to compete against Amazon's popular EC2 service. Read More

Android in 2013: Capabilities
Mark Murphy: Two weeks ago, I began the "Android in 2013" series, projecting where Android will be a few years' out. Let's look at what the operating system itself will look like in 2013. Read More

The open source textbook is an open-source experiment
Amy Vernon: "Free the textbook" has become the cry from the open source community. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Oracle

Business Agility Strategies For Midsize Organizations
Midsize businesses have enormous IT pressures: building an infrastructure that is flexible, designed to accommodate rapid growth and meets compliance challenges with resources nowhere near larger enterprises. This video whitepaper explains how Oracle is delivering applications specifically for midsize businesses. Learn More

The Horse Race For Video in HTML5 Continues
Alan Shimel" Another chapter in the "what will HTML5 support" soap opera opened last week with rumors that Google will open source the VP8 video codec. Here's a look at all the players in the HTML 5 video race. Read More

Digg Digs Open Source
Alan Shimel: In what is becoming the rule rather than the exception, Digg is the latest social media player to "come out of the closet" and not only acknowledge that it is built on open source components, but they have contributed to and host several open source projects. Read More

Girls like computers, too
Amy Vernon: It's hard to deny women are underrepresented in tech fields, though no one seems to be able to agree why that is. Is it nurture or nature? Read More

Closed source vendors hijack the term "open"
Open Source Subnet blog: News flash to old-school software vendors: an "API" doesn't make your product "open" and it certainly doesn't make it "open source." Read More


WHITE PAPER: Sophos

Best practices for implementing Windows 7
If you're planning to roll out Windows 7, now is the time to review your endpoint and data protection strategies to make sure that you're taking full advantage of the new security features as well as enhancing your overall security for enterprise deployments. Read Now.

Next Up: DotNetNuke
Alan Shimel: I have a received a steady stream of emails and comments touting DotNetNuke as the best CMS.   Read More

A smart approach to crowdsourcing yields brilliant results
Phil Odence: I put crowdsourcing to the test to see how quickly and cheaply I could assemble a list of the top 50 US companies' general counsels. This was no academic exercise. Read More

MeeGo, Android phone platforms take stage at Linux conference
Nokia, Google officials offer progress reports on their open source device OSes Read More

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