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Oracle rolls out a roll-call of Unbreakable Linux customers – LinuxWorld, 04/04/07
Oracle last week attempted to boost its Unbreakable Linux strategy with a long list of customer testimonials, touting the benefits of receiving both Oracle software and Red Hat Linux OS support from the database giant.
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Vendors hail Fibre Channel over Ethernet spec – LinuxWorld, 04/05/07
A group of storage vendors on Thursday proposed the development of a new specification that would allow the Fibre Channel storage-area networking protocol to run over Ethernet.
The tax traffic cometh – LinuxWorld, 04/05/07
Millions of procrastinating Americans will tackle their 2006 tax returns during the next few days, but the Internal Revenue Service says it’s ready for all of those last-minute electronic filers to hit the send button.
Nine things you don’t know about Novell – LinuxWorld, 04/05/07
If you’re a long-time NetWare user, you might think you know everything Novell-ish. But the company looks a lot different these days than it used to, now that it is focused on Linux, and is claiming customers who never used NetWare.
Novell and the computer game that changed networking – LinuxWorld, 04/05/07
For a larger story, “Nine things you don’t know about Novell,” I recently asked the Father of NetWare Drew Major about Snipes, a game written by the original NetWare developers.
Vyatta receives $11M in funding, led by Comcast – LinuxWorld, 04/05/07
Open source router startup Vyatta received an $11 million cash infusion this week, led by Comcast’s venture funding arm.
Intel looks to bury AMD’s ‘elegant’ Barcelona chip – LinuxWorld, 04/04/07
Intel is betting on a combination of manufacturing prowess and pragmatic chip design to outsell Advanced Micro Devices upcoming quad-core Barcelona processor.
Special Focus: LAN/WLAN integration growing but snags persist – LinuxWorld, 04/04/07
Ethernet switch vendors who offer combined or unified LAN and WLAN gear say the ultimate goal is to get wired and wireless network technologies to appear as a single network access layer.
Sourcefire releases Daemonlogger open source tool – LinuxWorld, 04/04/07
Sourcefire, the security firm that oversees the open source intrusion-detection system software, Snort, is making available another open source tool for network traffic logging.
Red Hat joins forces with SOA vendor – LinuxWorld, 04/03/07
SOA Software, a vendor of security, management and governance products for services-oriented architectures, is partnering with Red Hat to make its products available with JBoss open source middleware.
Fortify identifies JavaScript vulnerability in AJAX apps – LinuxWorld, 04/02/07
Security vendor Fortify today said it has identified a JavaScript-related vulnerability that lets an attacker hijack a Mozilla or Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser session.
Open-source security platform debuts – LinuxWorld, 04/02/07
StillSecure this week announced an open-source platform for IPv4-based routing, firewall, DHCP, intrusion-prevention, Wi-Fi and VPN services.
Latest GPL draft splits legal hairs over Novell/Microsoft, causing a stir – LinuxWorld, 04/02/07
The latest draft release of the GNU Public License version 3 (GPLv3) released last week includes provisions that aim specifically to stop future software patent deals like the one made by Microsoft and Novell last fall.
XenSource expands its virtualization capabilities – LinuxWorld, 04/02/07
A new version of the XenSource Inc. virtualization hypervisor, released Monday, now works on servers running the Windows 2000 operating system from Microsoft Corp.
Red Hat CEO undaunted by Oracle, Microsoft – LinuxWorld, 03/30/07
Red Hat’s latest financial results prove the company can withstand new competitive challenges, according to Matthew Szulik, the company’s chairman and CEO.
New Mozilla mobile browser out, amid more competition – LinuxWorld, 03/30/07
The newest version of Minimo, the Mozilla mobile browser, became available this week in the midst of changes within the Minimo project that make its future uncertain.
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A second source for Windows: Jeremy White, 04/04/07
Google Picasa and other Windows applications are now running on Linux at a fraction of the cost of a full-scale port. Tune in to LinuxWorld Podcast and learn what’s involved.
