Linbox Directory Server is an enterprise directory platform based on LDAP designed to manage identities, access control informations, policies, application settings and user profiles.
Read more »Defender of the Expert's Realm
"I'm nervous of creativity and knowledge being lost," said author Andrew Keen. If the rise of blogs, wikis, social networks and YouTube continues unabated, Keen believes we could face a return to medieval times. He doesn't mean that sewage will be tipped straight onto the streets again, but that the great artists and creators will once more be dependent on a few select patrons.
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Open-Xchange Releases Ubuntu-based SMB Groupware
Open-Xchange announced the immediate availability of Open-Xchange Express Edition. This is a full-featured collaboration designed to make it easy for small and midsize businesses to take advantage of the cost benefits of open source without requiring prior Linux know-how.
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Virtualization in the SMB Environment
Virtualization has long been the domain of large enterprises. Beginning with time-sharing technology on massive mainframes, virtualization required large data centers and larger IT budgets.
Read more »Microsoft: No IP Talks with Red Hat
Microsoft and Red Hat are no closer to a deal involving intellectual property cooperation, Microsoft has confirmed.
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Asterisk opens one company's eyes to open source
"American Fiber Systems (AFS), with headquarters in Rochester, NY, provides fiber optic network services directly to enterprises and to carrier resellers.
Read more »Migrating to Linux in the Enterprise Using Vendor-independent Formats
In order for a migration to be successful, one needs to be familiar with native Linux applications, and the data needs to be stored in a format that is independent from just a single application.
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Virtualization: A New Reality for Corporate IT
In this day and age, most of us have a computer powerful enough to handle most of the applications we need and use. Making sure you have the right hardware, the right drivers and an application compatible with your operating system can be a challenge. In a corporate environment, invariably there is a diversity of hardware and users with different requirements.
Read more »Four Surprises In the Linux Market
The VAR Guy is packing his bags and plans to attend Ubuntu LIVE July 22 in Portland, Oregon. While prepping for the event, he spotted four key developments in the Linux market — including a possible surprise announcement from Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Open-Xchange Brings User-Friendly Open Source Collaboration Software to Small Businesses
Open-Xchange Inc., today announced full-featured collaboration software designed to make it easy for small- and medium-sized businesses to take advantage of the cost benefits of open source without requiring prior Linux know-how. The product, Open-Xchange Express Edition, provides organizations with an alternative to expensive proprietary collaboration software.
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Xandros acquires open-source e-mail vendor Scalix
Xandros CEO Andy Typaldos told DesktopLinux.com that his Ottawa-based Linux desktop and server company has acquired privately owned open-source e-mail and calendaring provider Scalix under terms that were undisclosed.
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Sabayon Linux business desktop goes gold
The Italy-based Sabayon Linux project has released version 1.0 of the new enterprise-oriented edition of its desktop operating system. Sabayon Business Edition Linux 1.0 features a 2.6.22 Linux kernel and both KDE and GNOME desktop environments, along with a comprehensive set of application software.
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Fedora 7 for the office
Barring Linux aficionados who experiment all over the place (like myself actually) that Fedora 7 was not well suited to use as a home Linux...What about the office then?
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Windows vs. Linux vs. OS X: CIO John Halamka Tests SUSE
As part of an ongoing quest to find a viable alternative to the Microsoft desktop in the enterprise, well-known healthcare CIO John Halamka spent a month using Novell SUSE 10 as his sole operating system. His conclusion?
Read more »Open source and mission critical: The Linux application server landscape
In 2005, Michael Dortch, executive editor and director of IT infrastructure management strategies at the Robert Frances Group, penned a report comparing Linux application server total cost of ownership (TCO) with Microsoft's Windows and Sun Microsystems' Solaris.
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