MySQL Announces Record Cluster Database Benchmark Results
MySQL AB announced the results of recent DBT2 benchmarks of its MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition database. The announcement was made at the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo. Tests were…
OpenLogic Announces Free Software to Inventory Installed Open Source Software
OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced the release of OpenLogic Discovery, a free software tool that helps…
Qantas ditches Linux for AIX
Qantas will next month shift the underlying platform running its internal finance systems from Linux to IBM's Unix variant AIX as part of its wide-ranging eQ transformation project.
"We're…
Is it Time for an Open Source Certificate Authority?
"So far there are three free ways to get a free certificate to sign your e-mail and receive encrypted communications: Thawte, Comodo and CAcert. Thawte's root certificate is in mainstream browsers…
Microsoft to open source some of Silverlight
Microsoft is expected to show a new friendliness to the open-source community by unveiling plans to release the source code to a part of its Silverlight technology at MIX 07 this week, according…
Ubuntu lays down the trademark law
Trademarks have recently become something of an issue in open-source circles. Debian, for example, recently took exception to Mozilla's Firefox trademark rules and called its version of the…
The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time
eWEEK Labs names the applications that have moved open-source technologies from corporate curiosities to integral enterprise tools.
The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time.
Microsoft employee blogs about switching from Windows to Ubuntu
"What was able to drain the marrow of life from my body and leave only hollowed-out shell of the man who once occupied this space? Six years ago I began working for Microsoft."
Microsoft…
Weekly Wrap-up: The Hottest Linux community stories for the week April 28 2007
Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...
- Debian Project participates in Google's Summer of Code
- Bill Gates…
Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series: Andrew Morton
On Tuesday, May 1st, the Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series will be pleased to host Andrew Morton, who will be presenting "The State of the Linux Kernel." Andrew, lead maintainer for…