Germany is poised to see sales of open source software and services grow substantially over the next few years, particularly in the public sector, according to a new report published Tuesday.
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Commodity machine clusters can provide a scalable and highly available platform to deploy Web application and Web services. The networking software required for such clusters, however, is often custom to the specific application and can be daunting to write and test. This article shares how JavaGroups, an open source distributed systems toolkit, can help by providing ready-to-deploy, high-level features such as: group membership management, multicast and unicast message-based group communications, state transfer protocol, functional distributed data structure, and a library of reusable, frequently used communication coding patterns.
FootNotes has posted the final modules List for the GNOME 2.4 desktop release
In a move that could potentially bring Linux to the masses, eight of the world's top consumer electronics vendors have formed an alliance to promote development of the open-source operating system (OS) for use in digital devices including audio and visual equipment and mobile phones.
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eWeek has posted an article on Windows software under Linux
The source code for a newer version of the
Apache Web server software is of the same quality as proprietary competitors at a similar stage of development, a new study finds.
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Apache Web server software is of the same quality as proprietary competitors at a similar stage of development, a new study finds.
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The movie studio expands its use of the open-source software for its latest animated feature, "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas," using only Linux workstations and servers.
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A group of Xbox security researchers say they've found a way to run the open-source operating system on the game console without using a so-called mod chip.
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Thanks Joe. You can get all the Webledon Tennis Championship real-time scores with the IBM Real-Time Scoreboard, a standalone application that pushes point-by-point scoring information to tennis fans. Live scores are delivered directly to the users' desktop scoreboards as the scores change - every point, every match. It's a popular application: Tennis fans downloaded over 4.2 million IBM Real-Time Scoreboards in 2002. The Linux-based DB2 scoring database acts as a staging area that forms a critical link, a central data hub, in the information supply chain. Go here to get your free Scoreboard and find out more about the technical aspects of the Linux based application.
The biggest threat from SCO's suit against IBM is to users of Big Blue's AIX operating system, not Linux, whose license cannot be revoked just because SCO is doing poorly in the marketplace.
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The computer giant plans to load the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 software on its ProLiant and Itanium systems, as Linux-based servers continue to catch on.
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This article discusses incremental compaction, a new feature in the memory management component of IBM JDK 1.4.0. Incremental compaction is a way of spreading compaction work across different garbage collection cycles, thereby reducing pause times. The authors discuss the need for incremental compaction, the compaction phases at a high level, and some runtime parameters. They also explain how to interpret changes in the verbosegc output.
Intellectual-property expert Richard Wilder says the liability issues raised by the SCO-Linux lawsuit will force distributors and developers to rethink assumptions about open-source software, intellectual property rights and customer protection.
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eWeek reports that Novell debuts first Linux product
Linare, a company that integrates computers and software, is selling systems costing $199 with its own version of Linux.
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Sun Microsystems launches an ad campaign highlighting IBM's licensing dispute with SCO Group and encouraging its rival's customers to switch to Sun's computing platform.
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Strong growth in enterprise technology subscriptions help lift the Linux seller's earnings into profitability, compared with a loss a year ago.
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