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LWM's senior contributing analyst, Bill Claybrook, spoke with Jim Zemlin, executive director, Free Standards Group, about the Linux Standard Base, the support it has received in the community, and the importance of having an operating platform that is not only open source but open stan... Feb. 23, 2005 Reads: 8,345 | Data warehouse implementations represent one of the most challenging types of deployments for the enterprise. Several factors contribute to the challenge of deploying a successful data warehouse. Among these are large-scale and complex system configurations, sophisticated data modeling... Feb. 23, 2005 Reads: 13,805 | Once you have Linux in your enterprise you obviously are aware of the value that it brings in terms of stability, security, and total cost of ownership, but you may be left with one final obstacle: the management of your Linux infrastructure. Feb. 8, 2005 Reads: 13,297 | Last month I talked about the file-related options to the test command and how that helps you create smart and sophisticated shell scripts. This time I want to look at the additional conditions available for looping and flow control. Feb. 8, 2005 Reads: 11,569 | If you have ever met Robin Miller or 'Roblimo' as he prefers to be called, you immediately realize that he's one of the endearing 'characters' that make Linux colorful. Roblimo is editor-in-chief for the Open Source Technology Group, which includes Linux.com, slashdot.org, and SourceFo... Feb. 8, 2005 Reads: 20,036 Replies: 4 | Blue Gene/L (BG/L) is a massively parallel supercomputer with low cost-to-performance ratios for speed, power, cooling, and floor space. It's designed and built by IBM in partnership with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Feb. 8, 2005 Reads: 13,984 | Linux is gaining ground in the enterprise. It began on the server, but more and more Linux is being tested and deployed on the desktop. Linux solutions for typical business productivity applications, including Evolution, Mozilla, and OpenOffice, are available and included with most Lin... Feb. 8, 2005 Reads: 13,180 | The battle with spam can easily be compared to an arms race. Spammers will learn about and start exploiting a certain method to send their garbage messages. E-mail administrators (with the help of open source developers and vendors) will respond with anti-spam tools battling the latest... Feb. 8, 2005 Reads: 16,088 Replies: 2 | International Data Corporation (IDC) released a study in December 2004 noting that the worldwide Linux market for PCs, servers, and software will hit $35 billion by 2008. There's a general industry consensus that we're at the brink of a major Windows-to-Linux migration. However, with a... Feb. 8, 2005 Reads: 15,836 | As the adoption of Linux and other open source software within corporations grows, enterprise IT managers should, using reasonable oversight, establish policies that allow open source to benefit the company. Open source may be free and not ordinarily expose a company to piracy claims, ... Feb. 8, 2005 Reads: 8,614 | With their Sun Fire V40z Server, Sun is moving into new realms in three different ways. First, it's a move onto a new hardware platform - namely the AMD Opteron CPU. Second, it's a move into the 64-bit arena on a platform other than their familiar UltraSPARC environment. Third is the a... Feb. 8, 2005 Reads: 31,413 Replies: 1 | Please forgive me as I dust off a cliché from the 1990s business press - the Business Ecosystem - which, despite its overuse, really is a good concept that can be effective when appropriately applied. Dictionary.com defines an ecosystem as 'An ecological community, together with its e... Feb. 8, 2005 Reads: 12,686 | I've been thinking about why it's so hard to communicate the benefits of open source and Linux to the general public, and have come to the conclusion that it's because the general public has been conditioned by movies and TV to only understand simplistic plots with clearly defined good... Feb. 8, 2005 Reads: 12,898 |
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