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Submission + - Open Source Clustering Software - soon from Sun

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Spinlock_1977

on Wednesday June 27, 2007 @04:59PM

Spinlock_1977 writes: "In a world first, Sun will open-source its clustering code. Since the first clusters (IBM) to the generally agreed upon best (OpenVMS), clustering code has long been considered a Secret Sauce in large scale and high-availability computing installations. Does this move by Sun put pressure on other vendors such as Microsoft?

Infoworld has more details here: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/27/Sun-dona tes-Cluster-to-OpenSolaris_1.html"

Submission + - PayPal Down and Out (paypal.com)

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nilbog

on Friday June 01, 2007 @05:23PM

nilbog writes: "PayPal has been down most of the day. As a result, Ebay has come to a halt as people cannot pay for their won auctions, sellers cannot see if users have paid, and no money can be moved or accessed. Even people who get paid through paypal at the beginning of the month are now suffering during the outage.

Ebay has recognized the problem and issued two statements, claiming to be working on a fix.

This marks one of the rare occasions when a major website experiences a long-term outage. It has obviously effected some more than others, and serves as a healthy reminder of how much we have come to rely on Internet-based technologies."

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