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Connecting new hardware to the Linux market: Ed Cashin – LinuxWorld, 03/20/07
Coraid’s lightweight, low-budget storage technology is establishing itself at innovative IT shops, thanks to the company’s participation in the Linux driver process. Ed Cashin, the developer behind Coraid’s Linux driver, talks about how the company made the connection—and reached some new customers.
This week’s Linux news
How to make a honeypot network security system pay off – LinuxWorld, 03/21/07
ORLANDO — Honeypots have largely been relegated to use by academia and antivirus vendors because most enterprise IT teams figure they’re too expensive to run and could land their companies in legal trouble. But honeypots aren’t as scary as all that.
SugarCRM update due in beta next month – LinuxWorld, 03/21/07
SugarCRM Inc. plans to ship the beta version of Sugar 5.0 next month, an upgrade to its customer relationship management software.
HSBC gets behind Microsoft/Novell in Linux consolidation move – LinuxWorld, 03/21/07
Call it drinking the Kool-Aid, or just accepting business/IT reality — but more and more large enterprises are jumping on board the Microsoft/Novell agreement to provide support and interoperability between Windows and Linux.
EU proposal sets sanctions for copyright violations – LinuxWorld, 03/20/07
Companies from across IT face criminal sanctions, including prison time for employees, if their networks, software programs or online services are ever used to carry illegally copied material such as music or film, according to a draft law from the European Commission supported Tuesday by a committee of the European Parliament.
Kernel Space: paravirt_ops considered harmful? – LinuxWorld, 03/20/07
As more virtualization support enters stock Linux, kernel developers debate the standards that will let old kernels run as guests of new ones.
Oracle, Sun fixing J2SE bug with E-Business Suite – LinuxWorld, 03/20/07
Oracle is working with Sun to fix a bug affecting how the E-Business Suite runs on Windows Vista.
Q&A: Novell chief says Microsoft deal brings stability – LinuxWorld, 03/20/07
At Novell’s annual BrainShare user conference, CEO and President Ron Hovsepian sat down with Network World senior editor Deni Connor to talk about the Novell-Microsoft interoperability agreement and how it’s helping Novell attract customers.
Secure64 builds DNS appliance with Itanium server – LinuxWorld, 03/20/07
Secure64 Software has released software to turn an Itanium 2 server into a secure DNS appliance it says can handle 100,000 queries per second.
GlassFish app server to swim in the enterprise – LinuxWorld, 03/20/07
Sun Microsystems’ open source GlassFish application server is to be fitted with enterprise-level capabilities and interoperability with Microsoft technologies.
Red Hat makes a splash – LinuxWorld, 03/19/07
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) was released for servers and desktops last week, bringing much-anticipated virtualization and improved security features to Red Hat users and enthusiasts.
BrainShare: Novell embraces Microsoft, introduces NetWare, Linux gear – LinuxWorld, 03/19/07
SALT LAKE CITY — Novell welcomed Microsoft for the first time to its annual BrainShare user conference to discuss the interoperability implications of the vendors’ controversial agreement inked in November.
Founder of Debian joins Sun – LinuxWorld, 03/19/07
Ian Murdock, CTO of the Linux Foundation and the creator of the Debian Linux distribution, Monday began his new job as chief operating platforms officer at Sun Microsystems.
CEBIT – Collax puts Web face on application management – LinuxWorld, 03/18/07
Linux vendor Collax GmbH wants use the Web interface it has built for managing small-business servers to manage applications from other vendors too.
Centrify introduces Windows auditing tool for Linux, Unix – LinuxWorld, 03/16/07
Cross-platform management vendor Centrify this week introduced an auditing tool that lets Windows shops log, monitor and audit the activity of their users working in Unix and Linux environments.
Eclipse exec: Platform upgrade a blank slate – LinuxWorld, 03/16/07
InfoWorld editor at large Paul Krill met with Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation for open source developer tools, at the EclipseCon 2007 conference in Santa Clara, Calif.
LinuxWorld Community
LinuxWorld Community, 03/21/07
Tim Lee of Technology Liberation front reviews Wikinomics, a new book on collaborative projects. How do you mix peer production projects like Linux with companies? The history of Linux shows that firms and projects work together best when each firm acts in its own interest, and that of its customers, instead of trying to throw money at “the community”.
