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	Oracle's "new" kernel for RHEL clone: The real truth Joe Brockmeier: Oracle made a big noise in the Linux community by announcing its own spin on the Linux kernel on top if its so-called Unbreakable Linux. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Intel Open Source at Intel: Building with the Ecosystem Learn how Intel's work across the industry ecosystem is making it a trusted advisor to the Open Source community Click to continue In this Issue Linux Kernel Exploit Gives Hackers a Back Door Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Which Is The Best Open Source DB Of Them All? Uncle Sam meets open source with open arms Microsoft HPC claim: Windows is cheaper than Linux Open High is a school built entirely on open source Please Don't Confuse Standards with Open Source Software Extreme CRM Makeover, Open Source Edition - The Bowels of Implementation Kaviza adds iPhone, iPad, Android to virtual desktop package Visit the Open Source Subnet home page for more news WEBCAST: Red Hat Modernize Your Infrastructure In this session, HP and Red Hat speakers will explain how to prepare for and execute an effective migration from SPARC/Solaris OS-based systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers. Register Now! Linux Kernel Exploit Gives Hackers a Back Door Linux is well-known for its security advantages over many other operating systems, but that doesn't mean it's immune to problems. Read More Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Which Is The Best Open Source DB Of Them All? Alan Shimel: Ever since Oracle got its anti-open source hands on MySQL via the Sun acquisition, many in the open source community have been hoping for a new champion to fill the database hole. Read More Uncle Sam meets open source with open arms Eric Gries: Earlier this month, a consortium of public and non-profit organizations launched Civic Commons, a public-private partnership that will help governments share software they have developed. It's a terrific idea. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Optimizing Virtual Environments Organizations must understand virtualization and how it is changing the way operations are performed, what the benefits are created by establishing a virtualized environment and what the necessary steps are for an organization to create and maintain a virtualized environment. Learn More Microsoft HPC claim: Windows is cheaper than Linux Jon Brodkin: Microsoft has made some pretty bold claims about Linux throughout its longstanding love/hate (mostly hate) relationship with the open source operating system. Read More Open High is a school built entirely on open source Julie Bort: The term "open source" is being stretched pretty broad these days. Even the Tea Party wants a piece of it. But when a Utah high school named itself Open High, it deserved the moniker. Read More Please Don't Confuse Standards with Open Source Software Stephen Walli: Some people want to merge the idea of free and open source software with standards, and indeed open the discussion into one of "open standards." This confuses two ideas. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center Extreme CRM Makeover, Open Source Edition - The Bowels of Implementation Alan Shimel: Returning to our Extreme CRM Makeover, Levementum was introduced into the mix. Read More Kaviza adds iPhone, iPad, Android to virtual desktop package Users of iPhones, iPads or Android-based smartphones can access virtualized Windows desktops using version 3.1 of Kaviza's VDI-in-a-box product, the company said on Wednesday. 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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