When IBM announced its Linux-only Enterprise Linux Server variants of the System z mainframe two weeks ago, what the company did not say is that software partner Novell had cooked up software bundles specifically for these boxes.
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Mandriva: Nine Priorities for Mandriva Incoming CEO
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As everybody^wnobody know, Hervé YAHI is no longer the CEO of Mandriva. So I decide to rip off an article from The VAR Guy to issue an open letter to the Mandriva direction. So here are 9 priorities for the new Mandriva staff :
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OpenSUSE Corrals Community Software Efforts
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eWEEK Labs' Jason Brooks and Andrew Garcia discuss Novell's latest community-oriented Linux OS, OpenSUSE 11.2, which is packed with official OpenSUSE versions of the latest and greatest of what the open-source software world has to offer.
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How Google and the cloud changed my company
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A couple of years ago, I made one of the hardest calls I have ever had to make as a CEO... I asked my employees to pull the Microsoft feeding tube out of their noses and move to The Google.
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The Quandary over Open Source Support
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If you’re like a lot of IT organizations, you’ve got servers from Hewlett-Packard, routers from Cisco, operating systems from Red Hat and Microsoft – and you may even have Solaris from Sun somewhere.
Read more »8 of the Best Free Linux Business Intelligence Software
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Business intelligence tools are typically used to design and generate reports from a wide range of data sources. There are a number of different types of business intelligence software. These include reporting and querying software, digital dashboards, process and data mining, business performance management, and spreadsheets.
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LemonPOS: Linux Point of Sale
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I work with Quickbooks Point of Sale which is considered, by most, to be the de facto standard of Point of Sale systems. But for those clients that don’t have the budget to afford such a system, I have to turn to other choices. Those who need a simpler inventory/POS system, and want this system to run on the Linux operating system, what is the best option? One choice is LemonPOS.
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Red Hat to Partners: Prepare for Hosted Desktop Virtualization
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It’s time for Red Hat partners to look beyond Linux. That’s the key message for Red Hat’s channel in 2010. Sure, plenty of Red Hat resellers have also embraced Red Hat’s JBoss middleware. But now the open source company has something new cooking for partners: Hosted desktop virtualization.
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How will MySQL fare under Oracle?
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The first (and biggest) fear of this merger is that Oracle will do what it has done to BDB (Berkley Database) and let development stagnate and charge far too much for support.
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“Denny’s Uses Linux”
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Another quiet deployment of the world's Free (as in freedom) operating system
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Rumor: VMware Buying Zimbra Open Source Email?
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Zimbra, one of the best-known providers of open source email, may soon have a new owner. Rumors are swirling that Yahoo plans to sell Zimbra to VMware. If true, here are the implications for Zimbra business partners.
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Google Launches Boneheaded Retail Strategy
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The big story to me today wasn't the launch of the Nexus One phone, which looked nice enough, but the fatally flawed web-only distribution system
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Apache Ready to Unleash Another Decade of Innovation
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The Apache Software Foundation has arguably been the leading force for open-source software (OSS) over the last 10 years and promises to continue being a force in the new decade.
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System z: Dinosaur or Phoenix?
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Scan through IT news on any given day, and there's a good chance you'll find a story about some large organization or another replacing its IBM mainframe with servers running UNIX, Linux - and sometimes even Windows.
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Does VMware buying Zimbra from Yahoo make sense?
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We don't for certain that VMware, the giant proprietary virtualization company, is buying Zimbra, the open-source e-mail server company from Yahoo, but that's the news from the rumor-mill.
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