The Information Factories
The desktop is dead. Welcome to the Internet cloud, where massive facilities across the globe will store all the data you'll ever use. George Gilder on the dawning of the petabyte age.
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Oracle must eat Red Hat or fork, says Ubuntu man
Oracle's decision to trigger a Linux turf war has thus far produced the exact results Larry Ellison desired. Red Hat investors freaked out, and Red Hat customers gained a new avenue for putting…
Zenoss The Most Downloaded Commercial Open Source IT Management Platform
Network and Systems Monitoring Project Surpasses 50K Downloads in 120 Days from Sourceforge.net
Annapolis, MD — November 10, 2006 — Zenoss, Inc., a leading provider of open source…
Open-source vendors seek help from Congress
Open-source software vendors are prodding Congress to define some legal standards to support the development and deployment of such software.
The vendors, which have formed the nonprofit…
Novell-Microsoft agreements worse than useless
The Software Freedom Law Center's CTO Bradley Kuhn has issued a statement regarding the Novell-Microsoft agreements and how they will impact FOSS developers. They have analyzed in particular…
Open Source Indemnification: More Harm than Good
Since SCO filed its lawsuit against IBM several years ago, a number of vendors have stepped forward to indemnify their customers from suit if the customer becomes embroiled in any litigation…
Open-Source Ventures: Where's the Money?
Open source has plenty of supporters—among them venture capitalists who view the software as a disruptive technology with huge potential. But that doesn’t mean they’re about to throw cash at open-…
Red Hat and VMware Expand Relationship
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, and VMware, the global leader in virtual infrastructure software, today announced an expanded relationship to…
Cleaning up a Debian GNU/Linux system
You arrive at a Debian GNU/Linux server which has some history of neglection. Let's suppose someone else neglected it but if your new-year resolution is to stop neglecting your beloved server,…
Charity shuns open source code
The theory behind open-source software is that it avoids many of the pitfalls - including cost - of closed alternatives.
But Steven Buckley, who runs Christian Aid's common knowledge…