The mainframe is alive and well at the global human resources consulting and outsourcing firm Hewitt Associates, but it’s getting quite a bit of help these days from a Linux-based grid computing platform.
Read more »Grid pays handsome dividends for HR firm
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Leading SOA Expert Contributes Service Modeling IP to Red Hat to Accelerate SOA Adoption
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Thomas Erl, a leading service-oriented architecture (SOA) expert and the world's top-selling SOA author, has contributed IP in the area of service modeling to Red Hat.
Read more »Open source telecoms partnership in KZN
Linux company DcData and telephony solutions providers BizCall have entered a strategic partnership in order to provide IP telephony and Voice over IP (VoIP) services to the Kwazulu Natal market, forming BizCall KZN.
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Installing allocPSA on Windows
allocPSA (http://www.allocpsa.org/) is an open source, on-line (ie, web-based) Professional Services Automation system. allocPSA provides a suite of integrated applications designed for organisations which provide services to clients.
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Is Xen ready for the data center? Is that the right question?
Article after article and post after post have compared and contrasted Xen, VMWare, Veridian, and a host of other virtualization technologies, with opinions on performance, management tools, implementations, etc., etc. in abundant supply.
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Mindquarry GO beta: online collaboration
The open source collaborative software platform, Mindquarry, earlier this week launched the beta of its hosted collaborative service, Mindquarry GO.
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Novell SA chief quits to join Google
"Novell South Africa's Stafford Masie is leaving the Linux vendor to head up the local Google operation, reports ITWeb."
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VPS as an option for hosting
Now that anyone who wants to have an online presence via blogs or websites already has it, companies are offering all kinds of simple and cost-effective solutions. After all, while the number of customers may not grow so rapidly going forward, the needs of existing customers will definitely multiply as they use more and more storage space and bandwidth.
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Indiana's Calling, Is Anyone Listening?
The Sun Microsystems initiative, designed to create a binary-compatible distribution of OpenSolaris, has drawn what could be considered fair comparisons between the future structure of OpenSolaris and the current state of the various Linux distributions.
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VillageSoup's Recipe for Open-Source Content Management
Increasingly, news organizations are learning that using a content management system (CMS) designed from a "Web first, print/broadcast second" perspective can streamline operations and provide greater flexibility. As I wrote earlier, there are several good open-source CMS options for news and community sites.
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Red Hat Launches New Package Repository for Enterprise Linux
Red Hat has launched a new package repository for enterprise-class Linux (EL) distributions derived from Fedora, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, called EPEL.
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Mandriva Corporate Desktop 4.0 beta
Mandriva has released a beta version of their business based desktops in Mandriva Corporate Desktop (MCD) 4.0. Mandriva, on the heels of trying to gain popularity in the office environment has released a desktop that can rival its opponents like the Micorsoft sponsored Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) and RedHat's Fedora desktop.
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Tibco unveils open-source AJAX mashup tool
Tibco Software Monday introduced a tool aimed at easing the development of enterprise mashups. The new Tibco PageBus, which the company describes as an open-source message bus, creates a "publish and subscribe" model that can help users more easily tie together Web services and Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (AJAX) components to create mashup applications.
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Acer installing Linux on some notebooks, but not Ubuntu
"Acer Inc. did not install the Ubuntu Linux distribution on a batch of Aspire notebooks for sale in Singapore, but the company is installing a different version of the open-source operating system on some notebooks, local dealers said."
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Vancouver law firm trades in MS for desktop Linux
Downtime and virus issues prompt Whitelaw Twining to install SUSE. The switch was simple but not entirely trouble-free. Experts reveal what issues to look out for
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