Promise Technology Inc., a global supplier of RAID storage solutions for enterprise and SMB customers, announced Monday Linux support for its products as an important extension of its Linux business strategy.
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Are Ubuntu Users Getting the Best of Both Worlds?
For a community distribution, Ubuntu sure knows how to preen itself to look good for the business world. Canonical hasn't exactly kept its plans to get on IT managers' radar a secret, but the number of enterprise-ready applications for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS that are slowly becoming available in the Ubuntu Partner repository is getting hard to ignore.
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Virtually Speaking: IBM Goes High on Linux
It's not difficult to be nostalgic for LinuxWorld's of yore. The show was once home to myriad announcements and filled with movers and shakers.
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Ubuntu Goes Enterprise
Ubuntu is well known in user circles as the cool kids' Linux. It's available pre-installed on PCs and laptops from Dell and from numerous smaller computer vendors. What Ubuntu hasn't been known as is a Linux distribution that matters to CIOs and IT managers. Things are changing.
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The 10 Best Open Source Rules Engines
News earlier this week that IBM is buying French business rules player Ilog for $340m has once again shone a spotlight on this relative backwater of enterprise technology.
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Freight Shipping Container, Cargo Shipping, Overseas Shipping Container
BSL Containers is a professional shipping and storage container manufacturer. BSL Containers sells & exports high quality containers of all different kinds throughout the world. Our products include cargo, freight & custom container.
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Analyst: Ubuntu, community distros ready for the enterprise
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.
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Acquia: Counting Down to Commercially Supported Drupal
The folks from Acquia were in San Francisco for the LinuxWorld conference this week. Acquia, as we've covered before, has been working away on an array of support offerings and services for the powerful open source Drupal content management system (CMS).
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Business combats network management woes with open source GroundWork
When Sam Lamonica stepped into the CIO role at Rudolph and Sletten five years ago, he set out to tame an ungainly network by using an orderly open source network monitoring solution.
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The community Linux impact
A recent talk I led about community Linux and Ubuntu in the enterprise at LinuxWorld generated some discussion over at Slashdot. I can’t say that I completely agree with the headline, ‘Paid support not critical for Linux adoption.’ Well, not critical to some adoption.
Read more »Canonical’s Smartest Move of 2008
When Canonical canceled its Ubuntu Live conference — which had been scheduled to coincide with OSCON in Portland, Oregon — I was deeply disappointed. But in retrospect, here’s why canceling Ubuntu Live — and focusing more resources on August’s LinuxWorld Expo — was a very smart move by Canonical.
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Canonical To VARs: 11% of U.S. Businesses Use Ubuntu Linux
In an effort to rally solutions providers around Ubuntu Linux, Canonical is telling resellers that 11 percent of U.S. businesses already run Ubuntu. That’s impressive, but when will VARs truly jump on the Ubuntu bandwagon? Here are some clues from The VAR Guy.
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Comcast Gives Cold-Shoulder To Non-Profit School Running Linux
Lake City, Florida USA is the home of a rather unconventional school, New Generation. It is a non-profit, private school for students grade 6th through 12th that are at risk of dropping out of school due to educational difficulties. With a maximum population of 60 students, New Generation has an astounding success rate amongst a category of students that most of society has given up on.
Read more »Canonical: Linux Mainframes May Power Software as a Service
If you’re a managed service provider or software as a service (SaaS) specialist, here’s an interesting theory: Instead of purchasing dozens — or hundreds — of x86 servers, you’re sometimes better off virtualizing your applications on a mainframe.
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Linux rises to top dog in servers
LAST week's LinuxWorld talkfest in San Francisco, which brought together 10,000 vendors and users of the open source operating system, offered yet another indicator of its growing popularity across enterprise IT groups and among developers.
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