Seven years is a long time. Most people won't know where they are in 7 years. I'm interested to find out how many kids will be running around the house in 2016 However if you are responsible for thousands of Enterprise Linux servers, seven years may no longer be sufficient.
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EU probes Oracle-Sun deal, cites open-source issue
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Oracle Corp. figured its $7.4 billion buyout for Sun Microsystems Inc. could skate through antitrust scrutiny, folding Sun into a technology powerhouse when Sun badly needs the lifeline. Both companies will have to wait.
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Canonical adds Advanced Ubuntu Service and Support Offering
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Premium Service Engineer provides support for mission-critical and complex Ubuntu environments. Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, announced today an advanced service and support offering that gives large enterprises with complex IT environments a highly-skilled, dedicated Canonical support professional.
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Red Hat opens up the cloud with Deltacloud
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Red Hat today officially launched an ambitious new effort called Deltacloud to help abstract away the differences between public and private cloud deployments. Oh and it's all open source too. The way that Red Hat CTO Briand Stevens explains Deltacloud, is that that it will have drivers that map onto Amazon EC@ as well as private clouds that uses VMware or Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Long-term support for free SUSE Linux discussed
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The reduction of the support duration for openSUSE from 24 to 18 months has sparked a discussion among the openSUSE community about a free SUSE Linux version with long-term support. Several community members are of the opinion that reducing the openSUSE support has created a gap between the free openSUSE and the commercially supported SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).
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Red Hat launches GateIN open source portal project
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GateIN melds JBoss Portal technologies with the eXo portal to create a new portal framework. Red Hat originally announced the partnership with eXo in June and the today's availability of GateIN is the first deliverable.
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Red Hat expands its Linux System Management Platform
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Red Hat have announced the availability of Red Hat Network Satellite and Proxy, the companies solution for on site systems management. The announcement was made at the Red Hat Summit currently taking place in Chicago.
Read more »Red Hat Aims RHEL 5.4 At The Cloud
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New operating system release and hypervisor development work put the open source vendor on a collision course with VMware and Microsoft
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eBox Packages Linux LAN Services in a Friendly Bundle
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"A very complex technology to make network management simple." That's what the developers of the eBox platform promise small and medium sized organizations, and it's certainly an attractive idea.
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Red Hat Summit: New Connections for Partners and Software Vendors
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Red Hat today launched the Catalyst Program, which empowers partners with complete open source software stacks that could rival traditional closed source stacks from Oracle and Microsoft. Here’s the scoop from Red Hat Summit and JBoss World in Chicago — plus some bigger-picture observations.
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Zimbra 6.0.0 GA has been Released
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The Zimbra Collaboration Suite Open Source Edition is a next generation collaboration solution.
Read more »Openbravo on Ubuntu Server Edition: ERP Sales Will Take Time
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It has been nearly a month since Openbravo (the open source ERP provider) introduced support for Ubuntu Server Edition. But Openbravo for Ubuntu is going to require some time before it attracts paying customers, concedes Openbravo COO Josep Mitja. Here's why.
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Novell Still Profits with Linux
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Tightening of the belt has seemingly paid off for Novell. The enterprise earned 38 million USD in the last quarter with Linux products. Novell’s turnover for the third quarter this year is lower than that of the third quarter last year, but the figures are still in the black. Novell closed out 2009’s third quarter with a profit of 17 million USD.
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Linux buoys up Novell earnings
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Novell's Linux business is keeping the company buoyant in trying economic times, the company's third-quarter earnings indicate. On Thursday, the software maker published its third-quarter results, which revealed that revenue from its Linux platform products had increased 22 percent, year-on-year, to US$38 million.
Read more »Linux doesn't suffer from the economic downturn
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Currently Microsoft is feeling the full impact of the global economic slowdown. Reduced demand for its Windows OS & other software products has had a negative impact on the software giant. Both sales & profit are down. Meanwhile, Linux isn't feeling any impact at all.
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