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Thursday
02Oct
Linux Foundation statement on IBM IT standards policy
October 2, 2008 By Jim Zemlin (Blog)
Linux Foundation member IBM announced its adoption of a new corporate policy that will govern its global participation in the standards development process.
The Linux Foundation applauds this action, and supports IBM’s call for raising the bar in the standards development process. In particular, the Foundation, which uniquely supports both open source software and open standards, appreciates IBM’s leadership in recognizing the importance of promoting the advancement of these two essential technology tools in a coordinated way.
Thursday
02Oct
At what price will Oracle start sniffing around Red Hat again?
October 2, 2008 By Matt Asay (CNET Blogs)
The financial markets being what they are, companies like Red Hat can nail their quarter (indeed, years of quarters) and still get pounded on Wall Street. Red Hat has been pummeled down to $15 per share.
At what point - or, rather, at what price - does Oracle give up its Quixotic Unbreakable Linux quest and simply buy the real thing?
Tuesday
16Sep
Lenovo delivers big for small and medium businesses with ThinkServer Line
September 16, 2008 (MarketWatch)
Lenovo announced at Interop today its worldwide entry into the server market with its new ThinkServer line. ThinkServers are tuned to provide an out-of-the-box solution for small and medium businesses that require robust performance and high levels of storage but don't have dedicated IT staff to set up and manage a server environment.
Monday
01Sep
Linux sales dip as corporates buy more mainframes
September 1, 2008 By Cliff Saran (ComputerWeekly.com)
Sales of Linux-based servers decreased by 1.8% over the year, the first time this operating system has suffered a dip in revenue since the first quarter of 2002, according to analyst IDC's second quarter EMEA Quarterly Server Tracker 2008.
Beatriz Valle, research analyst at IDC, said, "Corporates have been replacing their legacy systems and they have not been migrating to Linux x86 servers." Instead, she said enterprise users have been buying scalable Risc and Itanium-based hardware and mainframes.
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Linux Wednesday
20Aug
Microsoft, Novell bolster Linux partnership
August 20, 2008 By Larry Dignan (ZDNet Blogs)
Microsoft and Novell said Wednesday that the software giant will invest more into the companies’ SUSE Linux partnership. As part of the agreement, Microsoft will buy up to an additional $100 million in SUSE Linux support certificates.
Sunday
10Aug
Analyst: Ubuntu, community distros ready for the enterprise
August 10, 2008 By Ryan Paul (ars technica)
At the LinuxWorld expo in San Francisco, analyst Jay Lyman of the 451 Group spoke about the potential for enterprise adoption of Ubuntu and the impact that community-driven Linux distributions will have on the market.
Companies are increasingly choosing free community-driven Linux distributions instead of commercial offerings with conventional support options.
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Linux Thursday
07Aug
Linux on servers? Great. On PCs? Not so much
August 7, 2008 By Mark Hachman (PCMag.com)
PC OEMs offered a halfhearted endorsement of the Linux desktop on Wednesday, claiming that the operating system was mainly suited for low-cost appliances and PCs designed for education.
Two vendors of consumer Linux distributions, gOS and Xandros, spoke glowingly about the OS and its future. But representatives of three PC OEMs next to them – Dell, HP, and Lenovo – declined to commit to the operating system as a platform for their machines, with the exception of the education market.
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Linux Friday
01Aug
Will LSB 4 standardize Linux?
August 1, 2008 By Sean Michael Kerner (Internetnews.com)
Not all Linux distributions are made with the same components, which can make it difficult for software developers to write applications for multiple Linux distributions. That's where the Linux Standards Base (LSB) comes into play.
For years the LSB has not quite lived up to its full potential. That could all change with the upcoming LSB 4.0 release.
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Linux Wednesday
23Jul
Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?
July 23, 2008 By Jason Perlow (ZDNet Blogs)
While I believe that interoperability and platform standardization is important for Linux, it got me thinking on another tangent entirely — do we need to completely rethink the entire commodity and utility computing platform itself?
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Interoperability Linux Thursday
17Jul
Closed source vs. open source in Desktop Linux
July 17, 2008 By Matt Hartley (Datamation)
When most people in IT think of Linux, they picture an open source operating system kernel, along with other software, coming together to create the server and desktop OS based on Free software...
But at what point do we accept that – whether we like it or not – closed source applications will eventually have to be let in to this otherwise "open" world?
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