Amazon Web Services (AWS) uses it. Elastichosts uses it. Google uses it. Yahoo uses it. Engine Yard uses it. Facebook uses it. "It" is Linux, of course. But what else do all these companies have in common? If you said "cloud technology," you're correct.
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Microsoft 'Has Acknowledged The Enterprise Role Of Linux'
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Three years on from Microsoft's deal with Novell, the real importance is coming through, says Novell's OpenSUSE community manager, Joe Brockmeier
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10 of the Best Free Linux ERP Software
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) manages the information and functions of a business. It provides an integrated system by which the entire business can be managed. Not only does ERP improve the efficiency of an organisation it also serves to help the firm's management make more informed decisions.
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Novell to mashup management tools
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It seems that most of the IT industry is trying to figure out how to make money by vertically integrating some aspects of the data centre and selling a complete solution that addresses the whole stack. Novell - known predominantly for its NetWare and SUSE Linux operating systems - is no exception.
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Newsflash for GE, you're already using 'risky' open source
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For 99.999 percent of the people reading that statement, it's so obvious as to induce global yawning. But for Peter Gyorgy, chief information officer of GE's Consumer and Industrial division in Europe, it's apparently heresy.
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Google Buys Creative Competitors
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The Californian Software company Appjet has been added to Google’s Wave team. Appjet’s collaborative Web editor Etherpad was initially supposed to be scrapped, but is now planned for Open Source release.
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Novell: One Company, One Strategy?
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I've openly wondered -- again and again -- whether Novell will ever connect the dots between SUSE Linux and the company's other product groups. A potential answer to that question has emerged. It involves Novell’s Intelligent Workload Management (IWM) strategy, which melds cloud and virtualization opportunities with Novell’s solutions. Here’s the scoop.
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Why Open-Source Software Vendors Should Charge More
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Why? Because a higher price sometimes convinces the buyer that he or she is buying a true work of art and not a naff and worthless piece of junk.
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Novell’s Channel Breaks Further, Novell Loses Over $200,000,000 in 2009 (Fiscal)
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Novell is losing its UK distributors and there is little hope for rebound based on the financial situation and general trend
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Tasktop, ThoughtWorks Studio Team Up on Connector
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Connector integrates development activities performed in Eclipse IDE with project management in Mingle 3.0
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Canonical Launches Bazaar Commercial Support
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At the heart of every serious software development project is the use of some kind of version control code repository. For Ubuntu Linux, that version control system is its own Bazaar (bzr) system, which make it easier for the project to encourage and manage developer participation.
Read more »Health check: Red Hat - This year's model
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Red Hat has long been the poster child of Linux and open source. In a changing market the operating system may not be enough. Red Hat has to stay ahead of the game, or play catch up where it can, which is why it has moved into middleware.
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Commercial Services for Bazaar
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In news that will be of interest to both open- and closed-source developers, Canonical is about to open a new revenue stream by offering a suite of commercial services for deploying and managing Bazaar, the open-source version-control system. Here's the scoop, with some thoughts.
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IBM: Manage Data Like Cash
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IBM today released a report tracking the effective use of business analytics at successful businesses. The report, "Breaking away with business analytics and optimization," said that all businesses can differentiate their performance by analyzing data better and by delivering insight to decision makers at all levels of an organization.
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Windows and Red Hat pricing on Amazon EC2 vs. on-premise
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After my previous post, "Cloud to boost proprietary software use?," Tim Bray questioned whether the pricing comparison of "WebSphere/SUSE vs. JBoss/RHEL on EC2 was a transient anomaly." Let me try again with Windows versus Linux.
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