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Marketing company IT exec wins Open Source Challenge
Vance Dailey, IT vice president at direct marketing and IT resource firm InterMedi@ Marketing Solutions received LinuxWorld.com’s Open Source Challenge Award for its voice over IP recording project based on the open source recording application Oreka TR. The company implemented the recording project with support from OrecX, which develops and sponsors the open-source Oreka.
The award, presented at LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit, recognizes forward-thinking IT professionals who build successful business projects drawing on the powerful network of the open source software community. All entries used Linux along with an open source business application and one or more other open source software components.
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This week’s Linux news
Hyperic enhances open source management platform – LinuxWorld, 02/14/07
Management software maker Hyperic this week made available a version of its open source platform that the company says will let customers track configuration, change and events across multiple layers of their IT infrastructure and prevent downtime.
Vendors form Open Solutions Alliance – LinuxWorld, 02/14/07
A handful of open source supporters today formed an alliance with plans to develop and promote open source business solutions, ultimately making it easier for enterprise companies to adopt open source technologies in their IT shops.
New database company raises funds, nabs ex-Oracle bigwigs – LinuxWorld, 02/14/07
Vertica Systems, a stealthy start-up building a fast new database management system that runs on Linux-based hardware, has started to break its silence.
A6: Managing the Solution Stack: Open Source and Closed Source Together – LinuxWorld, 02/14/07
The emergence of Open Source software in the enterprise has brought with it a new challenge: how do you construct and maintain a solution stack consisting of both Open Source and closed source components?
Venture capitalists bet big on open source companies – LinuxWorld, 02/14/07
Investors showered over $21 million collectively on two open source start-ups last week: Fonality, an Asterisk IP PBX vendor, and GroundWork Open Source, a network management firm. Venture capitalists are betting these companies will challenge larger …
Storage vendors debut new appliances, software – LinuxWorld, 02/13/07
Storage vendors, including IBM and Sepaton, are readying new wares this week. IBM is rolling out a midrange tape library with encryption capabilities, while Sepaton is introducing virtual tape library appliances and refreshing its product line with …
LinuxWorld Community: Keeping you safe from Bruce Schneier’s mom
“Your security out there depends on my mother’s security. And she doesn’t care about you,” says Bruce Schneier, author of security books including Applied Cryptography and Beyond Fear. In a world where the people who get hurt by security problems are not the people with an incentive to fix them, how can changing the economics help fix the problem? Watch The Economics of Information Security, Schneier’s keynote from LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit.
