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Linux Adoption To Slow, Say CIOs

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Citing the results of its "CIO Pulse" quarterly survey, investment firm UBS said Tuesday that the rapid rate of adoption of the Linux operating system by businesses is likely to slow in the next year.

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Microsoft hits jackpot ahead of Linux

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GAMING giant Tattersalls has chosen to abandon Linux as it moves ahead with a $43 million project to streamline its multi-state Maxgaming poker machine business.

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Virtualization/Linux Success Story for SMB

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SMB benefits from virtualization in small IT environment. This allowed them to reap benefits of advanced technology without breaking the bank to get it.

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Adblock Plus threatens the online revenue model

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Adblock Plus, an easy-to-use free addition to the Firefox Internet browser that deletes advertisements from Web sites is still a niche product for the niche browser. But it is potentially a huge development in the online world, and not because it simplifies Web sites cluttered with advertisements.

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SCO CEO McBride Speaks Out On Novell, Finances, And Groklaw

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Darl McBride says his company has strong products and a growing number of customers, so it will survive regardless of the outcome of legal battles.

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Powerfile Uses Samba in Blu-ray Backups

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Powerfile, a Santa Clara, California based backup storage vendor, has released a Blu-ray based backup solution supporting up to 120Tb of storage accessible using CIFS (via Samba) or NFS. The new story at Linuxworld.com begins:

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Astaro "paved the way" for VC-funded open source companies

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When Astaro's founders launched the company in 2000, venture capital funding for open source businesses was hard to find. CEO Jan Hichert says he and his colleagues tried but failed to secure funding and had to bootstrap. After the company was proved successful, VCs proved more willing to contribute to a company built on open source.

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Aggregate, collaborate, participate...

http://buzzm.worldbank.org

It is hard to make sense of the amount of information available on the web today, yet it is critical to listen and engage. We developped the BuzzMonitor, an open source application that "listens" to what people are saying about the World Bank across blogs and other sites in order to help the organization understand and engage in social media.

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Reduced Open Source developer productivity linked to "restrictive" FLOSS licenses

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A study by economists from Tel Aviv University and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) concludes "...that the output per contributor in open source projects is much higher when licenses are less restrictive and more commercially oriented."

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Linux products help Novell boost revenue in third quarter

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Novell Wednesday reported the net income loss for the third quarter of its 2007 fiscal year fell by nearly 50% compared to the same quarter last year, and the company said revenue was up nearly 3% to $243 million.

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HP, Red Hat team to attack SME Linux desktop market

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he AMD-based HP dx2250 desktop will be offered preloaded with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop.

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What's The Rule For Embedding Open Source Software?

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I just talked with two CIOs who have different takes on embedding open source software in their companies' products. One sees it as standard practice, the other approaches it like a snake in a bag.

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The Linux desktop has truly arrived

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Soon after I joined Novell, I started blogging about our technology directions. My first entry back in April 2006 was entitled “The Linux Desktop has arrived: The better desktop”. I argued that with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 – due to ship that summer – that the time had come for more significant inroads for Linux into the desktop market.

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LeapFrog Jumps into Open Source

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A best-of-breed philosophy is leading LeapFrog Enterprises increasingly toward open-source options.

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Becoming a Linux OEM: A Roadmap

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com

For years, Microsoft has reigned supreme as the 'only' choice for OEM partners on the x86 architecture. Later on, Apple switched from PPC (Power PC) to x86, but really did not make a dent in the OEM market, as Apple produces its own hardware, with OS X being a means to that end.

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