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Comment: Red Hat Sales Team Party Today (Score 1) 492

by ryan1234 on Thursday July 30 2009, @09:36AM (#28882035) Attached to: CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL

No better argument for paid support than news like this. Fortune 500 companies don't suddenly stop answering the phone.

Not that CentOS isn't a boon to RHT. But you can bet quite a few IT managers are having some heart burn this morning.

PostgreSQL officially faster then MySQL-> 0

Submitted by IpSo_ on Monday July 09 2007, @12:37PM

IpSo_ writes "Josh Berkus just posted on his blog : "First, the bare facts: we just published 778.14 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard with the Spec performance publication organization."

He continued with: "No more "slow elephant." For ages a reputation of sluggish performance has dogged the PostgreSQL project, due to both unfavorable comparisons with MySQL back in 1998 and due to our ongoing lack of auto-configuration (yes, yes, I'm working on it!). This publication shows that a properly tuned PostgreSQL is not only as fast or faster than MySQL (720.56 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard), but almost as fast as Oracle (since the hardware platforms are different, it's hard to compare directly). This is something we've been saying for the last 2 years, and now we can prove it.""
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Duke Fellow on GPLv3 and the SoftwarePatent Menace-> 0

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andy_from_nc

on Wednesday June 27 2007, @12:23AM

andy_from_nc writes "Recently the Triange Linux Users' Group (which meets at the Raleigh, NC Red Hat HQ on NCSU campus) hosted Sapna Kuma speaking on GPLv3 and more particularly about the Microsoft Patent menace. The videos are now up on iBiblio in both MP4 and OGM (OGG for video). I've also posted links to torrents and will update with mirrors on here.

The talk raised some important issues and raises a call to action for the entire "FLOSS" community on battling the Microsoft menace of patents. The video is okay (the other camera failed) and the audio is decent with captions of the key questions."
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