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High availability for Microsoft Exchange with VMware ESX Server and SteelEye LifeKeeper – 05/07/07
One government agency recently embarked on a mission to provide both high availability and disaster recovery (DR) for their Microsoft Exchange 2003 server.
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IBM, Red Hat team to reinforce Linux on mainframes – LinuxWorld, 05/09/07
IBM and Red Hat Wednesday announced a partnership to deploy and support Red Hat’s Linux software on IBM’s System z mainframes.
JAVAONE – GlassFish shows open source at its best – LinuxWorld, 05/09/07
GlassFish is the first project to spring from Sun Microsystem Inc.’s decision to open source its Java programming code and Ken Drachnik, one of its chief evangelists, points to the project as a lesson in how open source spurs innovation.
Kernel space: the UIO interface for device drivers – LinuxWorld, 05/09/07
A new interface for implementing device drivers outside the kernel has one project saving about 5,000 lines of code.
The Japanese government looks to go open source – LinuxWorld, 05/09/07
The Japanese government wants to go open source, as a way to rely less on a single vendor IT software infrastructure. And plenty of vendors are lining up to help make this happen.
Sun: The bulk of Java is open sourced – LinuxWorld, 05/08/07
Sun Microsystems Inc. announced Tuesday it has finished the process of making the bulk of its core Java technology available as open-source software under the GNU general public license version 2 (GPLv2).
Gartner says virtualization too expensive – LinuxWorld, 05/08/07
Businesses will need to open their wallets if they want to be technology leaders as virtualization is expensive, Gartner analyst, Thomas Bittman said Tuesday.
Sun files new DRAM suit against Hynix – LinuxWorld, 05/08/07
Sun has fulfilled its promise to file a new version of its antitrust lawsuit against Hynix Semiconductor, accusing the South Korean company of inflating prices for the DRAM chips used in Sun’s servers and storage systems.
Symark updates access-control software – LinuxWorld, 05/08/07
Symark this week unveiled the fifth version of its PowerBroker authorization and access-control software for heterogeneous Unix and Linux networks.
Zero Touch Linux provides kitchen sink Linux server packages – LinuxWorld, 05/07/07
Linux users wanting a quickly-configurable Linux server image that could handle a number of enterprise computing tasks, might want to get the latest version of Zero Touch Linux in the test lab.
Software manages storage resources – LinuxWorld, 05/07/07
Akorri today unveiled software that monitors and analyzes server and storage resources allocated for VMware virtual environments with an eye toward solving performance bottlenecks and improving service.
Comcast works on single comms dashboard with Zimbra – LinuxWorld, 05/07/07
Comcast has turned to open-source software vendor Zimbra to help supply some of the technology behind the U.S. cable provider’s upcoming free SmartZone communications dashboard for its broadband users.
Dell joins Microsoft, Novell in Linux collaboration – LinuxWorld, 05/07/07
Dell is backing the Windows-Linux partnership set up by Microsoft and Novell. As part of the deal, Dell will buy Suse Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft for corporate customers that are not already using Linux, the computer maker said.
Oracle focuses on app server, AJAX – LinuxWorld, 05/07/07
Oracle’s plate of announcements for the JavaOne conference this week features upgrades to its application server and IDE as well as a kit to make it easier to work with the Spring Framework for Java development.
Ubuntu plans mobile Linux version – LinuxWorld, 05/07/07
Ubuntu Linux developers plan to extend its open-source software development to handheld Internet-enabled devices.
Thin clients in, PCs out at Verizon Wireless – LinuxWorld, 05/04/07
Verizon Wireless is hip deep in a project to replace thousands of call center PCs with Sun Microsystems’ thin client terminals. And the carrier is already counting up the savings.
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Intel graphics drivers come out before the hardware does, 05/11/07
X Window System developer, and Intel employee, Eric Anholt reports that he and fellow Intel X hacker Keith Packard have published code to support Intel’s upcoming 965GM laptop graphics chipset.
