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Wanted: 19 More of the Top Software People in the World Sung and Unsung
i-Technology Heroes Who's Missing from SYS-CON's i-Technology Top Twenty?"
Our search for the Twenty Top Software People in the World is nearing
completion. In the SYS-CON tradition of empowering readers, we are leaving
the final "cut" to you, so here are the top 40 nominations in alphabetical
order.
Our aim this time round is to whittle this 40 down to our final twenty, not
(yet) to arrange those twenty in any order of preference. All you need to do
to vote is to go to the Further Details page of any nominee you'd like to see
end up in the top half of the poll when we close voting on Christmas Eve,
December 24, and cast your vote or votes. To access the Further Details of
each nominee just click on their name. Happy voting!
In alphabetical order the nominees are:
Tim Berner... (more)
Confident that customers are no longer interested in building their own
systems, IBM says it's marrying Linux clusters and blade servers by turning
its eServer BladeCenter into a prepackaged thing called eServer Cluster 1350,
fitting it out with management and storage systems that are supposed to help
reduce the complexity of deploying and managing Linux clusters.
IBM says the thing can be built with any combination of BladeCenters, x335s
and x345s. IBM will integrate and pretest them. The clusters can include x345
or x360 storage nodes and an x345 management node, all using Xeons with up to
3.06GHz clocks.
IBM preens that the Cluster Management Software (CSM) used on the 1350 is the
Linux version of the software that powered IBM's famous Deep Blue
chess-playing supercomputer. It's part of IBM's autonomic computing mantra.
The 1350 supports IBM TotalStorage FAStT200 ... (more)
Last Monday at the Desktop Linux Consortium Conference at Boston
University’s Tyngsboro, Massachusetts Campus there was a lot of talk about
a “UserLinux” distribution. The topic was sparked by remarks by Bruce
Perens who voiced a need for a distribution that was designed to meet
community needs for a desktop operating system based on the Linux community
favorite Debian distribution.
I contacted Bruce who has been kind enough to interject some comments to my
own text. They are marked [thus].
The thought of UserLinux sparked my thinking. The thing I like about Linux is
that it’s infinitely customizable to meet the needs of almost any
situation. However, for it to be a viable desktop for the masses there seems
to me that there has to be some common features that a large number of Linux
desktop users would appreciate. I thought about this quite a bit and started
my li... (more)
Mark R. Hinkle: "Linux is ready for the desktop"
In my view, Linux on the desktop is a viable operating system.
It offers many features that are more innovative than commercial solutions.
Virtual consoles, secure remote access solutions, true multi-tasking, and the
ability to use robust journaling file systems all come to mind. Despite these
advanced features, I have also noticed some parallels between Linux and some
earlier versions of Windows. Let’s term these similarities as “growing
pains.”
I do feel that there are many cases today where Linux is an inadequate
solution, specifically in the area where James Turner's complaint lies - in
laptops(docking is my pet peeve) and multimedia. However, I believe James to
be a high-needs user; it’s my contention that much of the computing world
comprises low-needs users. These terms should not reflect poorly on either
group... (more)
American Humane Association Announces Winners of Top Acting Prizes for Animal
Actors
Public Invited to Pick Their Favorite in Inaugural "Animal Planet People's
Choice Award"
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With Academy Award
season on the horizon it's important to remember the amazing animals in this
year's films who brought such joy and emotion to millions worldwide. Although
most people may think the Oscar is the most important award a film can earn,
in reality, the honor lies with the American Humane Association's "No Animals
Were Harmed®" certification. As the nation's voice for the protection of
children and animals, the American Humane Association's Film and TV Unit has
been protecting the welfare of animals in filmed entertainment since 1940 and
currently monitors the humane treatment of tens of thousands of animals on
more than 2,000 p... (more)
In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1–4, 2010)
being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time
to give my earlier list a complete overhaul.
Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the
Cloud Ecosystem.
I have increased it from the 'mere' 150 I identified back in January of this
year, to 250, testimony – as if any were needed! – to the fierce and
continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of
enterprise computing.
Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various
services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web
sites of the companies themselves. Omissions to this Top 250 list should be
sent to me via Twitter (twitter.com/jg21) and I will endeavor to include them
in any future revision of this newly expanded rou... (more)
My recent switch to a single-boot Ubuntu setup on my Thinkpad T60 simply
floors me on a regular basis. Most recently it's had to do with the
experience of maintaining the software. Fresh from a very long Windows 2000
experience and a four-month Windows XP experience along with a long-time
Linux sys admin role puts me in a great position to assess Ubuntu. Three
prior attempts over the years at using Linux as my daily desktop OS had me
primed for failure. Well, Ubuntu takes Linux where I've long hoped it would
go - easy to use, reliable, dependable, great applications too but more on
that later. It has some elegance to it - bet you never heard that about a
Linux desktop before.
There are many night-and-day differences between Windows and Ubuntu and, for
a guy that does 80% standard office tasks and the rest of the time I'm doing
Linux admin tasks, it was nearly all i... (more)
Related Links: Linus Torvalds Isn't the "Father of Linux"
"Ok, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the
Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus."
Thus begins a characteristically Torvaldsian e-mail to LinuxWorld News Desk
sent by Linus Torvalds in response to our invitation to comment on the
sensationalist claims this morning that he isn't, after all, the inventor of
Linux.
"They (for obvious reasons) couldn't step forward to admit that they had
gotten bitten by the computer bug, and had been developing a series of
operating systems on their own during the off season. But when they started
with Linux (which they originally called Freax - they do feel like outsiders,
you know, and that's a whole sad story in itself), they felt that they could
no longer just let it languish in obscurity. They started to look for a
front-man, and since Santa Claus is fr... (more)
In an open letter to the OS community, Darl McBride writes: 'The most
controversial issue in the information technology industry today is the
ongoing battle over software copyrights and intellectual property. This
battle is being fought largely between vendors who create and sell
proprietary software, and the Open Source community. My company, the SCO
Group, became a focus of this controversy when we filed a lawsuit against IBM
alleging that SCO's proprietary Unix code has been illegally copied into the
free Linux operating system...' Read the full letter here:
The most controversial issue in the information technology industry today is
the ongoing battle over software copyrights and intellectual property. This
battle is being fought largely between vendors who create and sell
proprietary software, and the Open Source community. My company, the SCO
Group, became a ... (more)
I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having
said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning? "Because
they can only give you answers."
Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would
share with you what some of the world's leading rich Internet application
pioneers are thinking may be the next questions that we need to see answered.
From that readers can themselves infer where AJAX is headed.
What are the top questions to ask next about AJAX?
Eric Miraglia of Yahoo!
1. (From March'08) How do I calculate the ROI of building my RIA on the
iPhone SDK vs using AJAX?
2. How do I assess the performance of my app and decide what to do next to
make it faster?
3. When it comes to accessibility, how do I know what's required of me for
my rich web apps? Beyond what's required, what makes good business se... (more)
Kevin Mack's Top 10 Linus SCO quotes [thanks to Dee-Ann LeBlanc for the link]
10. Not About IP"None of the SCO accusations have anything to do with IP
rights; they're all about contracts between IBM and SCO. All the IP rights
blathering by SCO was just that -- blathering"9. Custody Battle"SCO is
claiming parenthood of that child and now wants to make money off the
earnings of that child. Even though SCO has refused to undergo the technical
equivalent of DNA testing, and even though my (and other people's) DNA is
probably all over Linux." 8. Lottery
"We have to sadly decline taking business model advice from a company that
seems to have squandered all its money (that it made off a Linux IPO, I might
add, since there's a nice bit of irony there), and now seems to play the US
legal system as a lottery."
7. Copyright Law"So . . . when he attacks the GPL as being somehow ... (more)
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While a hybrid cloud can ease that transition, designing and deploy that hybrid cloud still offers challenges for organizations concerned about lack of available cloud skillsets within their organization. Managed service providers offer a unique opportunity to fill those gaps and get organizations of all sizes on a hybrid cloud that meets their comfort level, while delivering enhanced benefits for cost, efficiency, agility, mobility, and elasticity.
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