Software patents unaffected by Court ruling; Linux guru on security, KVM, Android

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	Supreme Court ruling dashes hopes that software patents will go away Julie Bort: Free software advocates who despise software patents were hoping that a case pending before the Supreme Court would more-or-less abolish them. But, alas, that is not to be. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IBM Manage Linux on System z: Tivoli Service Automation Manager IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager for Linux on System z provides a self-service interface to select and reserve IT resources available in an IT service catalog. Users can reserve resources needed to meet project requirements and schedule their deployment, eliminating lengthy, often error-prone and undocumented exchanges. Click to continue In this Issue Bilski and The Dirty Little Secret of Software Patents Linux guru offers advice on Android tablets, Linux security and virtualization Has Chrome's growth come at the expense of Firefox? Extreme CRM Makeover, Open Source Edition - Episode 1 Mozilla likes HTML5 over Flash Following the invisible thread of software into the future Venture Capital Continues To Pour Dollars In To Commercial Open Source Open source: inalienable right or company prerogative? Multi-tenant Architecture Is No More Fatal To Open Source Than It Is to Other Software Cisco launches Cius tablet for business Visit the Open Source Subnet home page for more news RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue Bilski and The Dirty Little Secret of Software Patents Kim Weins: There is a lot of discussion this week after the US Supreme Court issued a ruling on the Bilksi lawsuit. The ruling will have very little impact on the way people do business around patents. Read More Linux guru offers advice on Android tablets, Linux security and virtualization Podcast: Julie Bort catches up with Jonathan Corbet, executive editor of LWN.net. Corbet is co-author of Linux Device Drivers and a Linux kernel contributor. (19:18) Read More Has Chrome's growth come at the expense of Firefox? Amy Vernon: Firefox has long been the darling of the open source community. When Google released Chrome, another open-source web browser, it seemed the two combined might be able to bring down Microsoft's beheamoth once and for all. Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell Efficiently Delivering Enterprise-Class File-Based Storage IDC: Read about the exponential growth in file-based storage. Learn how having intelligence on data stored can help storage managers make smarter decisions about data storage, protection, archiving, retention, and disposition. Read Now. Extreme CRM Makeover, Open Source Edition - Episode 1 Alan Shimel: This will be the first in a series of articles called "Extreme CRM Makeover - Open Source Edition". Just like the TV show, we are going to do a total makeover. Except instead of a house, it is of a company's CRM solution. Read More Mozilla likes HTML5 over Flash Amy Vernon: Mozilla has joined the chorus in declaring HTML5 as the way of the future. Read More Following the invisible thread of software into the future Phil Odence: IBM Rational GM, Danny Sabbah's keynote at the recent Innovate conference painted an inspiring future picture for anyone involved with software. He described the pivotal role of software-powered Smarter Products in IBM's vision of a Smarter Planet. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation Reduce Disk Fragmentation by 85% We depend upon fast data access and efficient data management but file fragmentation is a well-known barrier. HOW it is solved deeply impacts budget efficiency. This white paper details the only known maintenance practices that increase efficiency while lowering operating costs. Read Now! Venture Capital Continues To Pour Dollars In To Commercial Open Source Alan Shimel: After an initial gold rush of VC investment in open source based businesses a few years back, investment in commercial open source companies seemed to be cooling off. Not anymore. Read More Open source: inalienable right or company prerogative? Eric Gries: How much code should be contributed for an open source project? Anyone working with open source code has to address the question eventually. Read More Multi-tenant Architecture Is No More Fatal To Open Source Than It Is to Other Software Alan Shimel: In an interview in Forbes last week OpSource CEO Treb Ryan says that open source has a fatal flaw. It was built primarily for single tenant architecture and won't be converted to multi-tenant public cloud support without a lot of heavy lifting. Read More Cisco launches Cius tablet for business Cisco Systems today unveiled the Cius, a 7-in. touchscreen tablet computer that runs the Android OS, and is sure to be compared to the Apple iPad. Read More Visit the Open Source Subnet home page for more news Visit the Open Source Subnet home page for daily news items, blogs, discussions and podcasts of interest to enterprise open source users. Follow Open Source Subnet on Twitter @OSSubnet. Read More
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