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Submission + - Amazon, watch out, OpenStack is coming (networkworld.com)

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on Friday October 28, 2011 @04:22PM

Julie188 writes: "The open source cloud platform, OpenStack, promises to end cloud-vendor lock-in by making it easier to move workloads between cloud providers. Only problem was, there were no OpenStack cloud providers. Until now. Internap has launched the first OpenStack public cloud, and it chose the open source Xen as the base hypervisor. Rackspace, the official corporate champion of OpenStack, is in beta with its cloud as is HP. A stew of other OpenStack projects are ready to bubble over soon, too."

Submission + - Can Hyper-V finally best VMware? (networkworld.com)

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on Thursday October 27, 2011 @04:00PM

Julie188 writes: "Hyper-V will get an overhaul as part of the release of Microsoft's Windows Server 8. At that time, it will offer features Microsoft claims that no one else in the market is doing — such as Share Nothing Live Migration, where virtual machines can be transfered from one server to another over just a network connection, no NAS or SAN required. Not surprisingly, VMware disagrees, saying there is nothing in the new version of Hyper-V that isn't available from VMware today. But it'll cost you, as these new Hyper-V features are not part of vSphere, but are only available as expensive add-ons from VMware."

Submission + - Happy Tenth Birthday, XP. Now Please Die (networkworld.com)

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on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @03:17PM

Julie188 writes: "Windows XP – the XP stood for "Experience" — was released October 25, 2001. With Windows XP, Microsoft hoped to have one codebase that would span everything from consumers to corporate desktops. Microsoft was fairly ambitious with XP. There was an embedded version that went everywhere, from phones to information kiosks. Banks in particular embraced it as a way to migrate off IBM's dead-end-but-once-great OS/2. Consumers have been quicker to ditch XP for Windows 7 while businesses hem and haw and slowly test a decade's-worth of custom apps on Windows 7. Some estimates show that XP still has a hold on 48% of the Windows market."

Submission + - Cloud driving Microsoft to open source? (networkworld.com)

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on Monday October 10, 2011 @01:04PM

Julie188 writes: "Sam Ramji thinks the days where Microsoft's, (and Apple's, and Oracle's) love-hate relationship with open source are numbered, thanks to to the cloud. Whereas some open source advocates say the cloud may kill open source, because users won't have access to the source, Ramji says the cloud will be its salvation. Ramji, Microsoft's original internal open source dude, thinks companies building clouds won't be able to keep up if they don't participate in open source communities because that's where the developers building new cloud infrastructure are doing most of their work. The main thing standing in the way by both cloud builders and users of free software are legal fears, he contends. These include fears of the GPL's copyleft provision and fears of being sued by downstream users. Is he right ... or full of FUD?"

Submission + - Gluster drags Red Hat into OpenStack (networkworld.com)

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on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @06:51PM

Julie188 writes: "One of the more interesting aspects of Red Hat's acquisition of virtual storage vendor Gluster on Tuesday is how it drags Red Hat into bed with its cloud competitor OpenStack. Red Hat made waves over the summer in the open source community when one of its executives threw punches at OpenStack's community saying the community amounted to not much more than a bunch of press releases. In July, Gluster contributed its Connector for OpenStack. It enables features such as live migration of VMs, instant boot of VMs, and movement of VMs between clouds on a GlusterFS environment. While Fedora has already said that its upcoming Fedora 16 would support OpenStack, Fedora is a community distro and "maverick" from Red Hat, if you'll forgive me for quoting Sara Palin. However, Red Hat today promised that it would continue to support and maintain Gluster's contribution to OpenStack. It didn't, however, to promise to quit the smack talk."

Submission + - How Microsoft can lock Linux off W8 PCs (networkworld.com) 3

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on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @07:20PM

Julie188 writes: "Windows 8 PCs will use the next-generation booting specification known as Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). And actually Windows 8 logo devices will be required to use the secure boot portion of the new spec. Secure UEFI is intended to thwart rootkit infections by using PKI authentication before allowing executables or drivers to be loaded onto the device. Problem is, unless the device manufacturer gives a key to the device owner, it can also be used to keep the PC's owner from wiping out the current OS and installing another option, such as Linux."

Submission + - Windows Server 8 a radical departure (networkworld.com)

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on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @12:46PM

Julie188 writes: "While the world is distracted with the Window 8 client, Microsoft is simultaneously working on Windows Server 8. At BUILD, Microsoft unveiled its next-generation server OS under heavy secrecy to a room full of analysts and product testers. WS8 is radically different thanits predecessors. There's an argument to make that it's notactually Windows. The code they saw was pre-beta and an obvious attempt to put an arrow in the heart of former-'softie-turned-VMware-CEO Paul Maritz. Windows 8 Server editions are to be run in Server Core format — the GUI will be optional. PowerShell has gotten an overhaul and its command list will exceed 2,300native commandlets in Windows Server 8. Hyper-V has also been revamped and will become massively scalable in the number of VMs supported and in the size of each VM."

Submission + - Mapping the Price of Pot Across the Internet (networkworld.com)

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on Thursday September 01, 2011 @05:55PM

Julie188 writes: "You might not have known that you are paying $526 to get buzzed when that same high, same pot, costs $97 in different areas; but this and other important information can now be found, thanks to a site called FloatingSheep and the mashups it posts. FloatingSheep analyzes geocoded data provided by web users to discover stuff that would normally go unseen, like the maps of the price of pot, of business and sex, of religion, bowling alleys, guns, and strip clubs — yes, all in one map. One of the project's founders, Dr. Matthew Zook, says that FloatingSheep is interested in fighting censorship in all its forms, not just the state-sponsored kind but also "soft censorship or citizen censorship. I'm thinking of things such as the editing wars that can break out in Wikipedia (or rating websites like Trip Advisor) in which less prevalent opinions/viewpoints have a tougher time being heard.""

Submission + - Jim Zemlin: Only idiots don't give back to FOSS (networkworld.com) 1

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on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @11:11AM

Julie188 writes: "Taking without contributing back to the upstream project defeats the benefit of open source and sooner or later, all open source users realize this, contends Jim Zemlin, executive director of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. So the time for cajoling those users — even commercial projects like Canonical — into participating is over. Contributing is "not the right thing to do because of some moral issue or because we say you should do it. It's because you are an idiot if you don't," he says."

Submission + - Google to pay $500M over fake drug ads (nytimes.com)

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on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @12:22PM

Julie188 writes: "Regulators will announce Wednesday that Google will pay $500 million to settle government charges that it has illegally shown ads for online pharmacies that operate outside the law. Web sites are liable for ads on their sites from advertisers that break federal criminal law."

Submission + - OIN fights to limit Nortel patent sale (networkworld.com)

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on Monday August 22, 2011 @01:42PM

Julie188 writes: "The leader of the Open Invention Network has put out an all-call to help it fight the pending sale of Nortel's patent portfolio to a consortium of vendors led by Apple and Microsoft. Keith Bergelt, CEO of OIN, wants developers and users to step up and share their viewpoints and stories with the Department of Justice investigating the sale. The consortium hopes to get regulatory OK and close the deal in the third quarter. At issue is if the new owners of the patents would use the patents to sue for patent infringement in order to hinder the growth of Android and other up-and-coming open source mobile devices. Bergelt hopes that the DOJ can be swayed to rule on this sale the way it ruled on the purchase of Novell's patents. In April, the DOJ limited the sale of Novell's patents by making the patents subject to both the GPL and the OIN license, among other restrictions."

Submission + - Can the SPDX spec stop FOSS license violations? (networkworld.com)

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on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:06PM

Julie188 writes: "Ever since Verizon was sued by BusyBox and the Software Freedom Law Center over GPL violations in its FiOS devices (in 2008), an entire industry has sprung up to help enterprises and developers avoid inadvertent license violations. Many of those vendors, and a host of other industry bigwigs, have been working on a method to share license information on open source packages as bits and pieces of code get used and modified. On Wednesday, the Linux Foundation and FOSSBazaar released a new specification they hope will do just that. The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) is a data exchange specification that tracks license information in a standardized way and allows it to travel across the software supply chain."

Submission + - Most enterprises plan to be on IPv6 by 2013 (networkworld.com)

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on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @12:18PM

Julie188 writes: "More than 70% of IT departments plan to upgrade their websites to support IPv6 within the next 24 months, according to a recent survey of more than 200 IT professionals conducted by Network World. Plus, 65% say they will have IPv6 running on their internal networks by then, too. One survey respondent, John Mann, a network architect at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, said his organization has been making steady IPv6 progress since 2008. "Mostly IPv6 has just worked," he said. "The biggest problem is maintaining forward progress with IPv6 while it is still possible to take the easy option and fall back to IPv4.""

Submission + - Microsoft lost 35% marketshare since releasing WP7 (networkworld.com)

Submitted by Julie188 on Friday July 08, 2011 @06:45PM

Julie188 writes: The release of Windows Phone 7 hasn't diminished the downward spiral for Microsoft in the smartphone market, according to figures released by comScore. Despite generally good reviews for WP7, Microsoft's U.S. smartphone market share has dropped by 35 percent since it went on sale last November. You think that's bad? Research in Motion lost an even bigger chunk.

Submission + - Harmony project pushes lawyers off FOSS's back (networkworld.com)

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on Friday July 08, 2011 @04:23PM

Julie188 writes: "Harmony is an effort that was begun and shepherded by Amanda Brock, the general counsel at Canonical. The intent was to create a small collection of consistently-worded contribution agreements (both licenses and assignments) for free and open source projects to use to reduce the friction such agreements can cause when they’re encountered for the first time by corporate counsel unfamiliar with FOSS licensing. Version 1.0 of the documents have launched. As court cases involving software copyrights and patents continue to sprout forth, we don’t have the liberty of ignoring the changes brought on by the law. Neither do we get to follow Dick the Butcher’s suggestion in Henry the Sixth and kill all the lawyers."

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