Topic: Linux

Posted by : Anonymous on Sunday, December 25, 2005 - 10:44 AM

Information technology company IBM has announced the opening of the AIX Collaboration Centre (ACC). Through a two-year, 166m investment, IBM will use the centre -- based in Austin, Texas -- to collaborate with customers, developers, independent software vendors (ISVs), and academics to drive innovation around AIX technology; and to develop, test and adopt new applications and middleware for the AIX operating system.
The AIX Collaboration Centre will focus on driving systems-level innovations around technology areas like virtualisation, security, performance and scalability, and will assist ISVs in advancing their applications on AIX by exploiting P-series hardware and software capabilities. It will offer resources including education, equipment, access to skilled technical consultants and remote or onsite testing capabilities to help enable their applications for AIX and the 64-bit Power systems.

Posted by : trraju on Sunday, October 30, 2005 - 02:49 PM

Recently, I have decided to ditch Windows and move to an open source (Linux) operating system, especially now that the software available for open source covers my needs. However, before taking the leap, I would like to ask a few questions. Following some web research, I came to realise that the number of open source OSs available is mind-boggling. Not being a programmer and having been brainwashed by the ease of use that is Windows, I would like an OS that is similar and does not require the use of command lines. Two Linux options seem appropriate: Mandrake (or Mandriva as it is now known) and Santa Fe. I would appreciate your opinions on comparing these two with Windows.

Posted by : R. Koester on Sunday, October 30, 2005 - 01:29 PM

The most popular open source database for Linux, is MySQL. It's easy to install and configure, runs light, and is quite fast. You'll commonly see it harnessed to Apacheserving up site content and authenticating users and offering a tempting target to those with more time than sense or conscience.
Working from the outside into the crunchy database center, we'll cover:
- The types of security problems. What should you worry about?
- Server placement. Where should you put your MySQL server to protect it from TCP exploits? How can you provide secure access for database clients?
- Database server installation. What version of MySQL should you use? What are the best file/directory ownerships and modes?
- Database configuration. How do you create database user accounts and grant permissions?
- Database operation. How do you protect against malicious SQL and bonehead queries? What are good practices for logging and backup?

Posted by : Anonymous on Sunday, October 30, 2005 - 01:20 PM

IBM in a few weeks is expected to announce support for Solaris 10 for its blade servers running on x64 processors, Sun Microsystems' executive vice president for software John Loiacono said at a town hall meeting in its San Francisco office.
Solaris 10 started shipping last January. While the software is available free of charge, Sun still makes money selling support contracts. The platform has more than 3m users.

Posted by : trraju on Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 03:44 AM

Two years ago, a tiny Utah company maneuvered its way into the biggest software battle on earth. On one side was mighty Microsoft (MSFT). Challenging the giant was the Linux operating system, built and maintained by legions of volunteer programmers around the world -- and supported by none other than IBM (IBM). Standing between them was SCO Group (SCOXE), a struggling software company in Lindon, a small town 30 miles south of Salt Lake City. While short on business, SCO held some potentially powerful copyrights. Partly funded by a hefty Microsoft license payment, SCO leveled a multibillion-dollar suit against IBM, charging that Big Blue had fed SCO-copyrighted software into Linux. This triggered fear and loathing in the fast-growing Linux community. A court win for SCO, Linux fans feared, could bring its growth to a grinding halt. And so, SCO became one of the most vilified companies in the technology industry.

Posted by : Anonymous on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 12:46 PM

NEW YORK - Shares of software company Red Hat Inc. rose Tuesday after Prudential Equity Group upgraded the shares to "overweight" from "neutral," citing the company's leadership in the Linux software market and its discounted share price. Shares of Red Hat closed at $14.48 (euro10.89), up $1.06 (euro0.80) , or 7.9 percent, on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The 52-week low of $11.21 (euro8.43) was set Nov. 10. The year-high of $29.06 (euro21.86) was set June 2.

Posted by : Anonymous on Sunday, October 31, 2004 - 09:21 PM

Mandrakesoft has introduced Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official with the promise that its latest distribution provides extended support for mobile devices, better hardware compatibility, and major application upgrades. Following on from Mandrakesoft's recent 'Community' release, 10.1 Official will, the company said, form the basis for a large part of its forthcoming products. According to the Linux firm, hardware support for the latest distro has seen "much progress", allowing it to run on a larger number of configurations and to support more devices.

Posted by : Anonymous on Tuesday, September 07, 2004 - 07:35 AM

Wearable computer technology firm Xybernaut has unveiled a version of the Linux operating system tailored to run the company's Atigo family of products.
The devices, designed for dual use as a wireless flat panel display or a standalone wireless-enabled mobile/wearable computer, feature the optimised Xybernaut Linux OS as a third operating system in addition to Windows XP Embedded and CE.Net.

Posted by : Anonymous on Tuesday, September 07, 2004 - 06:41 AM

RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) - Red Hat Inc., the world's largest distributor of the Linux computer operating system, hired a new chief financial officer as it tries to bolster its sagging stock price and expand into new foreign markets. The software company said Thursday it hired Charles E. Peters Jr. as chief financial officer to replace Kevin Thompson, who said in June that he would resign.

Posted by : Anonymous on Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 08:22 PM

ARMONK, New York (AP) - IBM Corp. raised its estimate Thursday for the number of people it expects to hire in 2004 to 18,800, up from an earlier forecast of 15,000, citing strong growth in key business areas such as consulting, grid computing and Linux. One-third of the positions are in the United States, spokesman Edward Barbini said.

Posted by : Anonymous on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 11:08 AM

Whether fair or not, Microsoft has a reputation for devouring would-be competitors, which is why some industry observers might find it strange that Microsoft has been relatively quiet about the potential threat Linux poses to its dominant position in the operating systems market. But it would be a mistake to take Microsoft's relative silence about Linux as a sign that this software behemoth has become complacent.

Posted by : Anonymous on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 11:07 AM

The website for last week's LinuxWorld 2004 in San Francisco was powered by Windows Server 2003, according to internet monitoring firm Netcraft. The US event was designed to celebrate the best Linux applications and advance the cause of the open source operating system for businesses - but failed to use the platform itself. Further research by Netcraft poster Rich Miller found that Linux enthusiasts are not alone in finding their 'World' running on Microsoft software: the website for the Macworld Conference & Expo is also hosted on Windows Server 2003.

Posted by : Anonymous on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 11:06 AM

The first beta of a Linux distribution that hopes to compete with enterprise server products from SuSE and Red Hat is set for release on 1 September - but few in the industry can see it gaining much support. Backed by open source advocate Bruce Perens, the free UserLinux distribution claims to offer the same functionalities as existing enterprise Linux distributions. "UserLinux is enterprise Linux without the big price tag," Perens told the recent LinuxWorld 2004 conference in San Francisco. "The result will be that Linux is free again."

Posted by : Anonymous on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 11:03 AM

Few firms are planning to move to Linux on the desktop, and will stick with Windows as their desktop PC operating system, according to research. A report from Forrester Research, The State of the Corporate PC, said that Linux does not pose a serious threat to Microsoft's dominance of the desktop. Half of the small firms interviewed for the report, and 47 per cent of enterprises, told the analyst that they will not replace any of their Windows-based corporate desktops with systems running Linux.

Posted by : Anonymous on Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 11:13 AM

Few firms are planning to move to Linux on the desktop, and will stick with Windows as their desktop PC operating system, according to research. A report from Forrester Research, The State of the Corporate PC, said that Linux does not pose a serious threat to Microsoft's dominance of the desktop. Half of the small firms interviewed for the report, and 47 per cent of enterprises, told the analyst that they will not replace any of their Windows-based corporate desktops with systems running Linux.

Posted by : Anonymous on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 06:36 PM

Linux's bid to become a serious rival in Europe to Microsoft's (MSFT) dominant Windows operating system hit a bit of a snag this week. On Aug. 4, the city of Munich's plans to switch 14,000 computers to Linux's open source system was put on hold. The city had made headlines when it announced the scheme last May. Technology research outfit Gartner at the time called it one of the largest desktop migrations to Linux ever disclosed.

Posted by : Anonymous on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 06:35 PM

Software developer Red Flag has unveiled the first commercial version of its Linux operating system produced using Intel's C++ Compiler 8.0 for Linux. Red Flag said that it used Intel's tools to optimise its Red Flag Server 4.1 series products, and will include 60-day evaluation copies of the Intel Compiler in its Linux distribution.

Posted by : Anonymous on Monday, August 09, 2004 - 05:46 PM

Red Hat has refocused its sales model to attract resellers, claiming that selling through retail is no longer profitable. The open-source vendor has launched a partner programme offering VARs the Advanced Partner and Red Hat Ready accreditations.Paul Salazar, marketing director for Red Hat EMEA, said: "Red Hat is an 11-year-old company. For five or six years we have been making a retail product. Over the past 24 months we have changed our selling model to be enterprise focused."

Posted by : Anonymous on Monday, August 09, 2004 - 05:45 PM

Tech executives, software developers and others will gather in San Francisco this week to talk about how they are putting Linux to use in business.More than 10,000 people are expected to attend the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo starting today and running through Thursday at the Moscone Center.

Posted by : Anonymous on Monday, August 09, 2004 - 05:45 PM

On the eve of delivering the opening keynote at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, Red Hat has unveiled the Red Hat Application Server.The software uses code from open source projects including Java Open Application Server being developed by the ObjectWeb non-profit software consortium and Tomcat, part of the Apache Jakarta Project.