SAP is recommending SUSE as its preferred Linux platform, the stuff of which stacks are made, and Novell is going start being the first line of defense for people running SAP applications on SUSE. SAP's great rival, Oracle, of course is now peddling its own anti-Red Hat Linux. Novell is supposed to handle both the apps and the operating system under a maintenance-and-support arrangement with SAP styled SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Priority Support. The program is supposed to focus on optimizing the price/performance of mission-critical workloads and includes volume discounts for application configurations. And there's a special on for the next 90 days.
The agreement enshrines the pretzel-like position Novell has been forced to adopt because it appears to be paying Microsoft not to sue its customers for using Linux. In a one-sentence disclaimer it says that, 'Nothing in this agreement shall imply, or be construed as an admission or acknowledgement by a party, that any patents of the other party are infringed, valid or enforceable.'
The first annual Virtualization Conference & Expo endeavors to provide IT professionals with the knowledge and skills required to derive maximum benefits from this efficient approach to computing.
From Jonathan Schwartz's
recent blog entry:
'Linus, First, I'm glad
you give credit to Sun
for the contributions
we've made to the open
source world, and Linux
specifically - we take
the commitment seriously.
It's why we freed
OpenOffice, elements of
Gnome, Mozilla, delivered
Java, and
Ubuntu is the darling of
the Linux desktop space.
Voted #16 in PC World's
Top 100 Products for
2007, millions of users
and now coming as an
option for Dell users
straight out of the box,
this Linux distribution
is increasingly being
deployed on corporate
networks. With a free
server ed
Today's Web service
providers must understand
Quality of Service,
filtering techniques and
implement QOS and access
list filters on their
networks. A proper QOS
and filtering design
helps to avoid network
bottlenecks caused by
worm and virus
infections, sudden spikes
in traffic, broadb
SYS-CON Events announced
today that AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2007
West (www.ajaxworld.com)
'Call For Papers' is now
open at the conference
website (click here) and
it will remain open until
June 30, 2007. AJAXWorld
2007 West will take place
on September 24-26, 2007,
at the Santa Cla
Recently, I had the
pleasure of speaking with
Anton Chuvakin, Director
of Product Management at
LogLogic. We had an
interesting discussion
about log management and
the open source project
he's involved in that
collects Windows event
logs. Here's an overview
of our chat.
SYS-CON.TV panel discussion during the "RIA Shootout" compared Adobe's Flex, Microsoft's Silverlight, and Sun Microsystems' JavaFX technologies and hosted renowned i-technology industry commentators and SYS-CON bloggers such as Coach Wei, Kevin Hoffman, Debbie Moynihan, Mike Potter, and Yakov Fain, with moderator, SYS-CON publisher Roger Strukhoff.
SYS-CON Events announced that AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West (www.ajaxworld.com) 'Call For Papers' is now open at the conference website and it will remain open until June 30, 2007. AJAXWorld 2007 West will take place on September 24-26, 2007, at the Santa Clara Convetion Center, in Santa Clara, California.
SYS-CON Events has created a hands-on, immersive learning experience for all Web developers who want to know the how, what, and why of the tools and concepts behind AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), the popular user-interface approach to creating Rich Internet Applications. AJAXWorld University AJAX Bootcamp is a compelling, intensive, one-day, hands-on training program that will teach Web developers, Web designers, and other Web professionals how to build high-quality AJAX applications from beginning to end.
SYS-CON Events announced that the 'Call for Papers' for the Real-World Java Seminar is now open. The largest Java developer event on the East Coast, the Real-World Java Seminar is a one-day event with three concurrent tracks and more than 30 sessions, is packed with technical presentations delivered by the Java industry experts. Attending this event will allow delegates to take a fresh look at the architecture of your the projects they are working on now, and can serve as a roadmap for their further development as a Java professional.
'Flex Developer Bootcamp' is an intensive, one-day hands-on training program that will teach Web developers and designers how to build Rich Internet Application using Flex. Flex Developer Bootcamp is a hands-on workshop that is not offered anywhere else: during this day attendees will create two fully functional applications. This workshop will be taught by Flex experts from Farata Systems Yakov Fain and Dr. Victor Rasputnis, co-authors of the book Developing RIA with Adobe Flex and Java.
SYS-CON Events announced today that IBM joined SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East as 'platinum sponsor.' IBM (www.IBM.com/SOA) is the world's leading technology provider of SOA and Web Services solutions.
Laszlo Systems, a "Gold Sponsor" of Enterprise Open Source Conference, is the original developer of the open source platform OpenLaszlo, and provider of Rich Internet Applications and services that advance the Web experience. OpenLaszlo is an XML-native foundation for building next generation Web applications that increase customer retention, conversion and brand loyalty.
Sun Distinguished Engineer Dr. Hal Stern will deliver the Introductory Keynote at the upcoming SOAWorld 2007 / Virtualization Conference at New York's Roosevelt Hotel on June 25. Stern, who also serves as VP of Global Systems Engineering at Sun, is listed as inventor or co-inventor on three networking technology patents.
webMethods joined SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East as 'Gold Sponsor.' webMethods provides business process integration to over 1,400 of the world's largest corporations and government agencies, enabling them to achieve faster business improvements and competitive differentiation.
Greschler is the director of virtualization strategy at Microsoft, and is focused on virtualization management tools for the desktop and datacenter. Greschler came to Microsoft with the July 2006 acquisition of Softricity.
Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, high-performance, InfiniBand interconnect products that facilitate data transmission between servers, communications infrastructure equipment, and storage systems. The company's products are an integral part of a total solution focused on computing, storage and communication applications used in enterprise data centers, high-performance computing and embedded systems. In addition to supporting InfiniBand, Mellanox's next generation of products support the industry-standard Ethernet interconnect specification.
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Whether you're a company
of one or 100, managing
knowledge is a core
concern and implementing
a knowledge base is a
sensible way to capture
your content. Dokuwiki is
I've always wondered
where the word 'oxymoron'
came from. What does
'oxy' have to do with
'moron'? What about the
words 'commercial' and
'open source'; do these
word
Regardless of how fast,
stable, and geek-chic
desktop GNU/Linux has
become, we still live in
a Windows world. Many
vendors, either through
lack of vision or
funding,
One of the most touted
benefits of Linux and
open source programs is
their flexibility.
However, as the
popularity of Linux has
grown, some of the
flexibility seems
HP today announced that
Rydex Investments and
Wheaton Franciscan
Services have deployed HP
StorageWorks Enterprise
Virtual Arrays (EVAs) in
their IT environments.