Showing all newswire headlines

Spread DB2 client connections across multiple servers with Balance, a powerful open source tool for the Linux platform. This article tells you what DB2 UDB connection routing is and explains how you can use it to balance your client requests on the Linux platform.

Bernard Golden's webcast Why your future depends on open source lay out three main reasons why open source alternatives are sure to lay ahead for your organization. After Bernard's PowerPoint presentation, he took some questions from audience members, but some were left. We bring you these questions in this Q&A.

Microsoft has clarified its IP indemnification policy, saying that it will indemnify claimants against damages as well as just legal costs, but some legal observers say the company still needs to spell out the small print on the protection it is offering customers. Questions on Microsoft's indemnification policy were initially raised after chief executive Steve Ballmer wrote an email to customers claiming that Microsoft offered better protection against legal action over IP violations than its open-source rivals.

Linux cluster vendor Linux Networx has released the Xilo scalable clustered storage system. Combining management software, scalable file systems and storage devices, Xilo pools capacity from multiple storage devices into a single resource to distribute large files.

US security firm TippingPoint has released its Tomahawk test software platform to the open source community, claiming that the offering is the first test tool designed to evaluate the capabilities of network-based intrusion prevention systems (IPS).

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems is planning the bold move of releasing the source code of its Solaris operating system, but those eager for details of the plan may have to wait until early 2005.

With only two weeks to go before Sun Microsystems enters into the open source foray with its Solaris 10 operating system, the Sta. Clara-based company isn’t seeing adversity from the open source community, particularly with Linux developers. In fact, it sees some form of integration between Linux and Solaris 10 that may grow stronger in following years.

While firefox is getting a lot of entirely due attention these days, there is a lot of really interesting extension work happening underneath the hood. One such extension that has a lot of potential is Wikalong examined in Wikalong - Margin Notes for the Web. It essentially is a wiki that sits in your firefox sidebar and changes depending on what site you're looking at. Great for annotating web pages while the Microsoft and SCO pages are naturally great fodder for gaming wikalong too.

Countering the latest salvo of Microsoft's Get the Facts campaign against open-source software, Novell yesterday launched a website devoted to "unbending the truth" about Linux in the enterprise. Novell CEO Jack Messman is also in the process of sending an email to Novell customers, to debunk a memo that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent to customers last week. Ballmer wrote that Windows has economic and security advantages over open-source software and warned that Linux users are fair game for intellectual property lawsuits.

Open Source Project is Designed to Meet the SA Forum's High Availability Specifications for Carrier Grade Linux

Xilo(TM) Scalable Storage System Provides High-Performance, Easy-to-Manage Storage for Linux Networx Systems

I have now attended conferences held by two major IT analyst firms: Forrester and Gartner. While I have talked to (and quoted) many analysts over the years, these were the first times I watched them interact with their clients in person. Like it or not, these firms and their competitors are major influences on enterprise IT adoption.

It is not everyday that Microsoft feels threatened by something so trivial. But I am pretty sure that they would be terrified of November 9. Well, not exactly… they are going to rock the gaming world with the launch of Halo 2. But that day Mozilla Firefox also releases its first final version.

Utah's Linux Networx has landed $40 million in new funding, money it will use to speed introduction of a new generation of high-performance supercompu- ters. The Bluffdale company, which made headlines a year ago when it built what then was rated the third-fastest linked computing processor "cluster" in the world for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, is expected to officially announce its new "Series B" equity financing today.

Here’s the basic question: If you had the choice (and you do!), why would you choose Windows over Linux? I don’t need it. I have every bit of functionality in Linux as I did in XP. This article includes a list of my typical setup in XP and Linux and the difference between them based on functionality (hint: There isn’t any).

Despite the growing acceptance of open-source software, not all companies are willing to entrust their operations to a community of strangers.

US newspaper The Boston Globe is looking to talk to recent converts to Mozilla Firefox for a forthcoming article.

You can tell that Microsoft is scared about something when the company can't stop talking about it. On the client side, the software giant is so nervous about the amazing advances made by Apple Computer with its iPod portable audio player and iTunes Music Store that the company recently spent hundreds of millions of dollars rejuvenating Windows XP with a variety of digital media updates that likely will prove more confusing than exciting to many consumers. On the enterprise side, long-time nemeses such as IBM and Novell have rallied around the open-source Linux standard in their latest bid to outflank Microsoft's server products. Predictably, Microsoft has come out firing.

Dan James at CEO Blues writes about the challenges and opportunities facing the Mozilla Foundation as it moves beyond the 1.0 release of Firefox. With the excitement and attention, the Firefox release provides a perhaps once in a decade chance to inspire and educate the general population about open source software. Will the Mozilla Foundation capitalize on this?

Experts believe this latest customer relationship management product could force down the cost of CRM and make rival vendors such as Salesforce.com raise their game. Open source CRM vendor SugarCRM is about to launch an on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) product that it says will set busineses back just a fraction of the cost of Salesforce.com's offering.