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Dell commits to green dream

News When questioned on whether Dell would promote Linux more heavily as an environmentally sustainable alternative to Microsoft Windows Vista, which has been criticised by Greenpeace and others for its reliance on powerful hardware and its influence...

Tags: laptop, pc, dell, green

[16 May 2008]

OLPC's Sugar gets sweeter with Windows

News Customers will be able to choose to run the computer on either a Windows or a Linux operating system. Sugar was designed only to work with a free Linux operating system. Eventually, the goal will be to develop versions of the laptop to run both...

Tags: microsoft, windows, olpc

[16 May 2008]

Early Linux Adopter Turns to Windows for New Business Needs

whitepaper However, the company soon found that the Windows platform offered significant benefits over Linux for many new business solutions. Although the company still runs its Web site on Linux, Overstock.com has increasingly turned to Microsoft software...

Tags: application servers

[16 May 2008]

Migration Scenarios for SAP to Linux on IBM Power Systems

whitepaper This paper describes different scenarios in which a customer could migrate their SAP system to the Linux operating system running on IBM Power Systems hardware. Migration of an SAP system is never an easy task.

Tags: erp

[16 May 2008]

IBM System p 570 2007 Benchmark Results for Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Global Payroll (France) 8.9

whitepaper The p570, based on innovative POWER6 processor technology, opens new horizons in computing technology for UNIX and Linux clients. With the introduction of the IBM System p5 570 using the POWER6 processor technology comes the potential for increased...

Tags: unix

[16 May 2008]

Linux on System z, an End-to-End View: From Sizing to Performance Analysis to Capacity Planning

whitepaper The purpose of this paper is to provide information on sizing tools and provide guidance on sizing and capacity planning for Linux workloads that run on System z. Critical enterprise Linux applications are being deployed in ever increasing numbers...

Tags: mainframes

[16 May 2008]

Repetitive Task Management on Multiple Linux Images

whitepaper Often, it is desirable to perform tasks remotely on a Linux system(s) without actually doing a manual log in. These tools can range from the very simple to the more complex, but all tools referenced in this paper are relatively easy to implement...

Tags: linux server os

[16 May 2008]

LiMo targets the business mobile

News Ovum analyst Adam Leach expressed surprise at the news when he spoke to ZDNet.co.uk this week, saying the largest opportunity for the mobile Linux initiative was generally seen as being in the consumer space.

Tags: business, mobile, linux

[15 May 2008]

Web Analytics Developer Standardizes on Microsoft Software to Gain Competitive Edge

whitepaper In the past, Web analytics solution provider WebTrends maintained its products on multiple platforms, with its products for Linux and UNIX accounting for 41 percent of costs but only 17 percent of revenue.

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Measurements of SAP ECC 5.0 With Unicode on IBM eServer zSeries Using DB2 for z/OS V8

whitepaper In the case of the Application Server, both AIX as well as Linux are measured for zSeries Application Servers. This paper describes several measurements, or stress tests, that were done using a zSeries Database Server and DB2 for z/OS in both non...

Tags: mainframes

[15 May 2008]

Skype drops open-source appeal

News Skype has abandoned its efforts to avoid complying with an open-source licence that requires it to provide source code with Linux-based VoIP phones. Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008…   Video: CIO Agenda 2008...

Tags: skype, gpl, open source

[12 May 2008]

DIADEM Firewall: Web Server Overload Attack Detection and Response

whitepaper This paper outlines the integration an FPGA based high-speed classifier engine integrated into the Linux Netfilter firewall as well as its deployment during a response action against the DDoS attack. Additionally, it provides protection against...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

OpenOffice 3.0 beta gets an airing

News The software is available for public download in US English on Linux, OS X, Solaris and Windows but Sun warned it is not considered suitable for production use. The first beta-test version of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 productivity suite was released...

Tags: windows, mac, openoffice

[09 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…

Comment So what you are saying is you have no systems management experience on Unix or Linux systems, especially if you regard them as "bulky" - have you taken a look at Vista's hardware footprint recently? Job boom: Indian outsourcing braced for eight...

Tags: password, offshore, outsourcing

[08 May 2008]

Charity Migrates From Linux and Cuts Web Publishing to Just Seconds

whitepaper Microsoft Partner Afkar Information Technology transferred the charity's Linux-based portal and the intranet to a new solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) wanted a Web environment for its...

Tags: application servers

[06 May 2008]

World-Renowned Genome Research Facility Relies on Sun to Provide Cost-Efficient High-Performance Compute Grid

whitepaper To achieve higher performance at lower cost, TIGR migrated and consolidated processing for a core genetic sequencing application from a HP AlphaServer Tru64 platform to a high-performance computing grid infrastructure using Sun Fire x64 servers...

Tags: application servers

[05 May 2008]

Wellness Product Company Switches From Linux to Windows Server to Support Growth

whitepaper Zone Labs, known for its Evidence Based Wellness products, had an unsupported IT mix of Linux, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, and Java 2 Enterprise Edition, with financial data in QuickBooks. To prepare for continued growth, the company switched to...

Tags: database management, labs, zone labs, continued growth

[04 May 2008]

Dell, HP, Lenovo openly pledge Linux driver support

News Dell, HP and Lenovo have promised to push chipset vendors to make open-source drivers for Linux. Representatives from Dell, HP and Lenovo made the commitment at a Linux Foundation conference last week, promising to include wording in their hardware...

Tags: lenovo, linux, dell, open source

[02 May 2008]

Novell Data Center Strategy

whitepaper Novell has a strategy for delivering lower-cost, Linux-based data center solutions. With a proven Linux foundation, the Novell data center strategy is a secure, innovative approach to data center computing.

Tags: data center

[02 May 2008]

Single-System Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability on HP Integrity Superdome With Emphasis on HP-UX

whitepaper HP-UX, Windows Server 2003, and Linux are planned to run on HP Integrity Superdome, and an investigation is underway to add OpenVMS to this list. However, the major innovation for HP Integrity Superdome is the ability to run multiple operating...

Tags: application servers

[02 May 2008]

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