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Oracle, VCs put the froth on OSBC latte
Jane Walker writes "Oracle’s Sleepycat acquisition and rumors of new buys set tongues wagging at this week’s Open Source Business Conference, but the real...
Does Oracle Understand What It’s Buying?
Open Source has become significant enough - as either threat or opportunity - for Oracle to throw about half a Billion into a buying...
Linux.com weekly security advisory – February 17, 2006
Author: Kelley Greenman
Advisories were released this week for Libtasn1, kdegraphics, OpenSSH, PostgreSQL, ImageMagick, Xpdf, and several other packages. Distributors releasing advisories include Debian, Fedora,...
My sysadmin toolbox
Author: Brian Jones
I administer servers and networking equipment in a small to mid-size
heterogeneous (but 99.44% *nix) environment. I've worked on projects ranging
from NIS-to-LDAP migration...
FOSS for OS/2: Keeping the flame alive
Author: Bruce Byfield
After a decade of neglect and increasingly reluctant support from IBM, the manufacturer, the OS/2 community persists. Where users of GNU/Linux or...
Server virtualization in four styles
Jane Walker writes "Virtualization is set to cut a large swath of headlines this year, but users would be wise to understand each virtualization...
Acquisitions expert: Behind Oracle’s OS buys
Jane Walker writes "Find out what's behind Oracle’s open source vendor buying spree in this interview with Douglas Levin, CEO of Black Duck Software."
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Time to yell Geronimo and run from JBoss to WAS CE
Anonymous Reader writes "The no-cost WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE) is a lightweight J2EE application server built on Apache Geronimo, the open...
Don’t pitch Linux, OS just for cost savings
Jane Walker writes "In this interview, Samba team co-founder and author of "Hardening Linux" John H. Terpstra advocates finding the best fit for your...
Questions Still Abound over GPL 3
There was much discussion about the provisions contained in the first draft of the GNU General Public License 3.0 at the Open Source Business...