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LPAR (graphical logical partition) is a Java based GUI monitor for the system p5 server that allows the status of CPU and memory resources used by one or more LPARS to be monitored side by side. The user can monitor these various OS LPARs side by side to watch for problems or trends in CPU and memory utilization.

DataDirect Networks, Cluster File Systems and Voltaire Achieve 15 Gigabytes/second in Sandia's RoSE Visualization Cluster

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) announced a new world record TPC-H 300 gigabyte (GB) benchmark for Oracle(R) Database 10g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Ron Hovsepian, Novell's new president and chief operating officer, noted that Novell has increased the number of packaged applications supported by SuSE Linux to more than 1,000, up from 42 when it bought the operating system in January 2004. But he also stressed the importance of "driving open source where it is needed and not trying to force-fit it" into user sites.

[Ed: In biz-speak this is what a new executive says to explain why his company hasn't performed well. Out of the other side of his mouth, he will explain that Novell is now the number one distributor of Linux in China. If this is the kind of non-sense we can expect out of Hovsepian, then the board of directors might consider another change. Novell was winning support from the community that makes it run. But if you're going to act like the people who lost the NOS market to Microsoft and became a non-event, then we suggest you lose the Open-Source business. We thought Novell's spin was in the past. - tadelste]

The CSIR's Meraka Institute will be showcasing some of South Africa's top open source projects at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia, which kicks off today.

Industry-Leading iSCSI Target Mode Performance of 400,000 IOPS Now Available for PCI-Express Servers and Storage Systems

Ukraine work with only software producer. Naturally, this is Microsoft Corporation. Recently the company has been humming through our country, especially fighting counterfeit software. And after the Orange Revolution Microsoft Corp. Chairman William H. Gates III became Councillor to President Viktor Yushchenko. So needless to say which software are delivered to Ukrainian schools.

China has chosen Linux as the future of its software industry. But Novell's SUSE became the number one distribution in China's Linux market this year, and more menaces to native developers, such as the march of the Red Hat, are looming. A good portion of the problem comes from the way domestic Linux companies do business in China.

Microsoft's "Get the Facts" advertising campaign makes the claim that Windows offers a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than Linux, and backs it up with reports from well-known industry analyst firms. But Linux advocates claim that the TCO of Linux is lower, and some other studies back them up. How can you separate the fact from the fiction?

Welcome to our issue number 22 of Fedora Weekly News.

PalmSource, France Telecom's Orange and several other companies plan to standardize aspects of Linux running on mobile phones.

BRIEFS from Apple's trademark enforcement department have written angry letters to an open source group over the ipodder.

Ipodder Lemon was free software distributed under a GPL licence to manage podcasts. M'Learned friends from Apple have sent a cease and desist notice to the the ipodder code writers saying that they were "decieving users" that the software was connected to Apple's iPod device.

MozillaQuest.Com's Mike Angelo, conducts a penetrating, objective, and fact-based analysis of Novell, SUSE, and KDE issues. Novell now is GNOME-centric and Novell has made a mistake in doing that. The article also presents Novell's side of the story.

We give free Linux CDs to our friends, coworkers, even strangers, but in many cases we never find out what happens to them after they leave our hands. Recently I decided to look up several people I've given free Linux CDs to and ask them what happened, what they liked and didn't like, and whether they are using Linux.

For governments outside of the US and Europe, cost is a big motivator for using open source software - but it's not the only one.

[Ed. The seven page story features Linux succes-stories in Brazil, China and India. - hkwint]


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RealNetworks patched up a critical flaw on Thursday. The patch covers three flaws that would have allowed malicious hackers to take control of a user's computer through the Real player. The problem was reported to the company more than four months ago.

To the faithful, Oracle’s acquisition of Innobase — a significant MySQL partner — is proof of what Oracle has believed all along: that MySQL’s success is a threat to Oracle’s database business and it’s only a matter of time before the two database vendors collide.

The Common Music Notation language helps you create complex musical scores and compositions, thanks to its Lisp advantages. This month, I continue our tour of notation programs for Linux with a look at the Common Music Notation system from composer/programmer Bill Schottstaedt.

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2005--Linux Networx, The Linux Supercomputing Company, announced today record company growth and an expanded corporate focus on delivering a systems experience to Linux supercomputing users. Linux Networx also announced the LS Series, a family of Linux Supersystems that blend the price/performance of Linux with the power of legacy supercomputing while providing total systems value.

[Ed. One wonders if Microsoft will ever get close to Google. Every time they take a step, Google leaps that much further ahead. - dcparris]

Google will shake up the web analysis market and strengthen its key advertising business on Monday with the launch of a free service that measures the effectiveness of websites and online marketing campaigns.