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Saturday
04Oct
Up and coming Microsoft technologies in open source
October 4, 2008 By Michael Herndon (Open Source connections)
Typically speaking in the past, critics would have laughed or promptly smashed any one who supported the “evil empire” in any way, shape, or form. However, times change and the pendulum swings. Thanks to people like Scott GU, there has been much change to how Microsoft is doing development and relating to developers who work on their platform. Granted its not perfect or without incident, but there is change from within the evil empire.
Saturday
04Oct
Test Center review: Small Business Server 2008 gets "small" right
October 4, 2008 By Curtis Franklin Jr. (InfoWorld)
A small business is not necessarily a simple business. That rather basic lesson has taken much of the computer industry far too many years to learn. Successful SaaS vendors have realized that small businesses need the same sort of functions and support that large enterprises get – just in smaller quantities. Clearly Microsoft has come to the same realization with the release of Small Business Server 2008.
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Microsoft Friday
03Oct
Red Hat chases Redmond with HPC play
October 3, 2008 By Timothy Prickett Morgan (The Register)
Today, Red Hat announced the global availability of its Red Hat HPC Solution, which is a mix of the current Enterprise Linux 5.2 from Red Hat and an OEMed version of Platform Computing's Open Cluster Stack 5, a set of open source cluster management tools that Platform, a pioneer in grid computing, created from its experience with its proprietary Load Service Facility (LSF) tool for managing jobs running on grids.
Friday
03Oct
Microsoft changes the Managed Extensibility Framework License
October 3, 2008 By Miguel de Icaza (web log)
A couple of weeks ago I suggested that developers interested in having their .NET software run in other platforms should avoid Microsoft's Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) as it was not an open source library. Today Glenn announced that Microsoft has changed the license for MEF to the open source MS-PL license.
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Open Source Microsoft Thursday
02Oct
Linux Foundation statement on IBM IT standards policy
October 2, 2008 By Jim Zemlin (Blog)
Linux Foundation member IBM announced its adoption of a new corporate policy that will govern its global participation in the standards development process.
The Linux Foundation applauds this action, and supports IBM’s call for raising the bar in the standards development process. In particular, the Foundation, which uniquely supports both open source software and open standards, appreciates IBM’s leadership in recognizing the importance of promoting the advancement of these two essential technology tools in a coordinated way.
Thursday
02Oct
Citrix desktop virtualization
October 2, 2008 By Dan Kusnetzky (ZDNet Blogs)
Their desktop virtualization demonstration was outstanding on a number of levels. What caught my eye was how integrated various types of virtualization software, security and management were integrated and appeared to be a single facility.
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Virtualization Citrix Thursday
02Oct
Cisco, Microsoft roll out server, networking appliance
October 2, 2008 By Nancy Gohring (IDG News Service)
Enterprises can now buy a networking appliance from Cisco Systems that runs basic Windows Server 2008 functions, a product designed for use in branch offices, Cisco and Microsoft announced Wednesday.
Thursday
02Oct
At what price will Oracle start sniffing around Red Hat again?
October 2, 2008 By Matt Asay (CNET Blogs)
The financial markets being what they are, companies like Red Hat can nail their quarter (indeed, years of quarters) and still get pounded on Wall Street. Red Hat has been pummeled down to $15 per share.
At what point - or, rather, at what price - does Oracle give up its Quixotic Unbreakable Linux quest and simply buy the real thing?
Thursday
02Oct
Microsoft will soon release 'Windows Cloud' OS, Ballmer says
October 2, 2008 By Jeremy Kirk (ComputerWorld)
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer revealed a few details on Wednesday of a forthcoming operating system that will help developers write Internet-based applications.
Within a month, Microsoft will unveil what Ballmer called "Windows Cloud."
Wednesday
01Oct
CIOs not taking a shine to Chrome
October 1, 2008 By Julian Goldsmith (CNET)
Despite the hype, it seems few IT teams are testing Google's recently launched Web browser Chrome--yet.
In Silicon.com's latest exclusive CIO Jury poll, the respondents revealed that they were still steering clear of the application, with 10 out of 12 saying their IT teams are not testing it.
Many in the "no" camp attributed their lack of Chrome testing to their IT infrastructures being set up to run with Internet Explorer as the default browser.
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