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IBMs multi-platform telecom web services toolkit is an integrated development environment for Telecom-enabled applications through Web Services for WSAD. This enables any ISV or Web developer without specialized telecom knowledge to easily build telecom-enabled applications.

One of the most obvious differences between a LiveCD and an operating system installed on a hard drive is the time it takes for the system to start. LiveCDs have the disadvantage of all CDs, easily being 15 times slower in both transfer and access speeds than standard hard drives. Even with this huge variation in speed, the average LiveCD does not take 15 times longer to boot than the same software installed to a hard drive. This article will provide an overview of the boot speeds of nine popular LiveCDs in several different configurations.

Early in my GIS career, I wanted to produce digital maps at home. Of course, I couldn't use tools I had access to at work due to licensing and cost restrictions. This led me to investigate open source GIS and mapping alternatives. I dove in and never looked back.

SearchEnterpriseLinux.com readers have lots of questions about the various open source and Linux-based e-mail systems available today. To get some of them answers, we caught up with our resident open source messaging expert, Julie Hanna Farris, who is also the founding CEO of Linux messaging company Scalix Corp.

The Schools Linux User Group volunteers yesterday rolled out ten Linux-based laboratories. And they did this before midday.

If you're looking for an easy way to setup basic PHP script to work with MySQL, then take a look at this tutorial, which looks at the basics of building a PHP script, including syntax, HTML forms, and MySQL database connections.

"We live in a time where the days of picking up a gun and starting a revolution are over, you don't need 100,000 people to take to the street for things to be "that bad", the wars are still taking place, battles being valiantly fought, yet they're done in court rooms and behind people's backs."

One of the many myths surrounding Linux is the one about it being difficult for beginners used to Windows. One distribution that proves this is not so is Kurumin Linux, a small Brazilian Knoppix-based distro maintained by Carlos Morimoto, who has become a personality in the Brazilian Linux community. Because it is based on Knoppix, Kurumin offers solid hardware detection accuracy and works natively as a live CD, and it's much easier to install on a hard drive than Knoppix thanks to a set of installation scripts that alleviate a lot the pain in the process.

A former senior manager from IBM's software group in Australia, Max McLaren, has been appointed general manager Australia and New Zealand of the Linux vendor. McLaren replaces Gus Robertson, who was recently promoted to an Asia-Pacific channels and alliances role.

Ever since the release of Google's Web Accelerator tool, there have been many who follow the search engine industry questioning the purpose and the effects of prefetching.

The SchoolTool development team and the Shuttleworth Foundation today released SchoolTool Calendar, an open source calendar server for schools. One of Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth's original 'big ideas' SchoolTool has suffered a few false starts but today but pulls through.

A South African network services and computing solutions developer has been appointed support and distribution partner for NoMachine's NX server and business software solutions.

Chairman of the No. 1 PC maker says he'd be interested in becoming a switcher himself if the opportunity ever came up.

On the heels of its recent acquisition of Brazilian Linux vendor Conectiva and name change from Mandrakesoft to Mandriva, Mandriva acquires Lycoris, a maker of user-friendly desktop Linux distributions.

Chairman of the No. 1 computer maker says he'd be interested in becoming a switcher himself if the opportunity ever came up.

The launch of Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris, the open source version of its Solaris OS, should be greeted as pretty good news by its reseller partners, say analysts.

Founder and chairman of the No. 1 computer maker says he'd be interested in becoming a switcher himself if the opportunity ever came up.

Without a formal policy governing free software use, one of Australia's largest general insurers has developed an application using free software and in the process has given code fixes back to the community.

If you're moving over to Firefox from Mozilla, you've surely noticed how Firefox is built to be a sleeker, faster browsing engine. It accomplishes this in part by shedding all of its counterparts from the Mozilla Suite, including an email/news client, composer, and chat client. But that doesn't mean this functionality is no longer available. With a few extensions -- or with no work at all -- you can make Firefox integrate with your email client as though it were still part of a suite. You don't have to stop there, either; at least one valuable extension gives you the power to connect Firefox with virtually any program on your system.

SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel or iSCSI, it all sits on an operating system. Sometimes that OS is UNIX, other times it's Windows, and in a growing number of cases it's now Linux as well.