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News BT has joined FossBazaar, an enterprise open-source community and workgroup of the Linux Foundation. According to a statement this week, BT joined FossBazaar because it wants to help "accelerate the adoption of free and open-source software in... [25 Jul 2008]
Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News The market for open-source databases is booming due to new workloads such as RFID projects, rich web applications and small portals, despite the unwillingness of enterprises to replace their Oracle, DB2 or SQL Server systems with open source... [24 Jul 2008]
MySpace gets on board OpenID
News OpenID is an open source alliance that, by letting users take one identity to multiple websites, aims to eliminate the need to create multiple user names and profiles. News Corp's MySpace social network will join the OpenID alliance to begin... [23 Jul 2008]
Does open source pose a security risk?
News The study, carried out by application security consultant Larry Suto and sponsored by security tools vendor Fortify, found that a lack of security processes led to a constant or increasing number of security issues in successive open-source releases. [22 Jul 2008]
Is the UK an open source laggard?
News Firstly, we have a feature-rich Content Management System that we're using on an increasing number of our web sites and this success is encouraging us to look for other open source solutions. CIOs are split on the controversial issue of adopting... [21 Jul 2008]
UK trails in open source race
News UK businesses are lagging behind their European and US counterparts in adopting open source software. This compares with almost a quarter (24 per cent) of businesses using open source in France, 21 per cent in Germany and 17 per cent in both Canada... [14 Jul 2008]
Google open sources web 2.0 security
News Google has released as open source a web application assessment tool, Ratproxy, that is designed to root out potential security flaws. Separately, Google also released Browser Sync, a product designed for keeping multiple versions of Firefox... [14 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News Google is not the first to open source its internal data interchange system: Protocol Buffers is very similar to the Thrift framework, developed by Facebook and now an open-source project in the Apache Software Foundation Incubator. [11 Jul 2008]
3 jumps on board Symbian Foundation
News The Foundation is a Nokia-led consortium that was recently established to grow and open-source Symbian over the next two years, while incorporating Symbian-derived platforms such as Series 60 and UIQ into the main operating system. [11 Jul 2008]
Virtual Private Networks: An Overview With Performance Evaluation
White Paper Several commercial and open source VPN products are now available that can be configured to provide VPN services with varying characteristics. This paper studies some of the most popular Open-Source Linux-Based VPN solutions (OSLVs) and compares... [10 Jul 2008]
Evaluating the Performance of Middleware Load Balancing Strategies
White Paper First, it describes the design of Cygnus, which is an extensible open-source middleware framework developed to support adaptive and nonadaptive load balancing strategies. Key features of Cygnus are its ability to make load balancing decisions based... [10 Jul 2008]
A Failure Predictive and Policy-Based High Availability Strategy for Linux High Performance Computing Cluster
White Paper The Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR) is a fully integrated cluster software stack designed for building, and maintaining a Linux Beowulf cluster. To embrace both HA and HPC features, the HA-OSCAR solution is created which... [10 Jul 2008]
PEGASUS: Competitive Load Balancing Using Inetd
White Paper This paper provides an overview of the current frameworks and popular implementations both open source and commercial. As it is proven by practice, load balancing techniques are the only tools that network service provider have, in order to support... [10 Jul 2008]
Design and Implementation of a Layer-7 MPLS-Based Web Switching Architecture
White Paper This paper describes a novel web switching architecture, based on the MPLS technology and on Open-Source software. During recent years web servers evolved from providing simple, static content to offering different services and a variety of... [10 Jul 2008]
Load-Balancing in Multi-Homed OLSR Networks Using Airtime Metric and Radio-Aware Path Selection: Implementation and Testing
White Paper This paper describes how the radio-aware path selection using airtime as a metric can be implemented in order to achieve this functionality, based on a modified version of an open source OLSR implementation. [10 Jul 2008]
