Ok, so, here are my thoughts on Ulitzer... As a blogger, I focus on traffic and I spend quite a lot of time optimizing my SEO. Since the target audience of my articles is much greater than the reach of my blog, Ulitzer is actually helping me increase my content reach. Moreover, Ulitzer does it in a very fair way since links back to my posts or other locations are without the evil "nofollow" - providing a nice SEO boost. It also gives me some good metrics that are very useful data points on the effectiveness of my blog articles. And last but not least, it allows my article to appears in the news listings of the two major search engines, which is a very nice channel extension. So, all of this means that, while Ulitzer might be seen as a competing channel to bloggers, I think that bloggers should realize the tremendous value it could bring to their blog. I think to mater... (more)

Confessions of a Ulitzer Addict

John Funnel on Ulitzer Earlier this year one of my staff attended a SYS-CON event and returned to the office a different person. Revitalised and motivated. I asked her what happened at the event to warrant such a transformation? What was her secret? Was it the New York Shopping experience? A business Romance or was it Devine intervention? She simply advised me to ‘check out Ulitzer. – Everyone who is anyone is on it’. She was not the first to introduce me to the innovation. Many of my peers had gone through such noticeable changes, It was like a weight had been lifted from their shoulders, that they now had a true portal to vent out their innermost thoughts. I was instantly intrigued by such recommendations. People, just like me, were using Ulitzer everywhere. So what had I been fighting against all this time? What was I avoiding? Eventually I succumbed to the in... (more)

OpenNebula Cloud Computing Topic Launched on Ulitzer

OpenNebula Cloud topic launched today on Ulitzer, as the leading information source for this open source Cloud Computing platform. OpenNebula, which was was born as a research project in 2005 by Dr. Rubén S. Montero,  Dr. Ignacio M. Llorente, is an open and flexible tool that fits into existing data center environments to build any type of Cloud deployment. OpenNebula can be primarily used as a virtualization tool to manage your virtual infrastructure in the data-center or cluster, which is usually referred as Private Cloud. OpenNebula supports Hybrid Cloud to combine local infrastructure with public cloud-based infrastructure, enabling highly scalable hosting environments. OpenNebula also supports Public Clouds by providing Cloud interfaces to expose its functionality for virtual machine, storage and network management. The OpenNebula Cloud Toolkit is a widely used o... (more)

ARM Server to Transform Big Data to Internet of Things (#IoT)

A completely new computing platform is on the horizon. They're called Microservers by some, ARM Servers by others, and sometimes even ARM-based Servers. No matter what you call them, Microservers will have a huge impact on the data center and on server computing in general. What Is a Microserver...and What Isn't Although few people are familiar with Microservers today, their impact will be felt very soon. This is a new category of computing platform that is available today and is predicted to have triple-digit growth rates for some years to come - growing to over 20% of the server market by 2016 according to Oppenheimer ("Cloudy With A Chance of ARM" Oppenheimer Equity Research Industry Report). According to Chris Piedmonte, CEO of Suvola Corporation - a software and services company focused on creating preconfigured and scalable Microserver appliances for deployin... (more)

New Xandros CEO Has Big Linux Plans

Andreas (Andy) Typaldos has just been appointed CEO of Xandros - developer of installation-friendly, Linux-based operating environments offering Windows compatibility - by its board of directors. The 30-year technology veteran and entrepreneur founded of AxsOne (formerly Computron), a global software firm supplying Fortune 500 companies with financial services, financial applications, workflow, and data-management applications, and was an early investor through Linux Global Partners in Ximian, Xandros, and CodeWeavers. He is also Chairman/Managing Member of Enikia, a state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip semiconductor company focused on delivering broadband and multi-media distribution over electrical power lines. “Xandros has a top product, many Microsoft users are waiting for," Typalso says. "The touch and feel of their known Windows desktop, with the stability and s... (more)

Linux's Moment of Truth: 2nd SCO Suit vs Daimler-Chrysler, No Less

BREAKING NEWS: SCO just announced it is filing against Daimler-Chrysler now too for alleged violations of its UNIX software agreement with SCO. The lawsuit will be filed in the Oakland County Circuit Court in the State of Michigan today. According to the official SCO press release: SCO's lawsuit seeks the following relief: Enter an order that DaimlerChrysler has violated Section 2.05 of the Software Agreement by refusing to provide the certification of compliance with the "provisions" of that Agreement; Enter an order permanently enjoining DaimlerChrysler from further violations of the DC Software Agreement; and Issue a mandatory injunction requiring DaimlerChrysler to remedy the effects of its past violations of the DaimlerChrysler Software Agreement; and Award damages in an amount to be determined at trial; and Enter judgment in favor of Plaintiff together with cost... (more)

Xandros on the Desktop Means Business

With a new business desktop, a "Best Front Office Solution" award, and an expanding product line, things are looking good for Xandros. LWM Editor-in-Chief Kevin Bedell spoke with Dr. Frederick H. Berenstein at LinuxWorld Expo; here he shares the history of Xandros and, more important, what he sees in the future. LWM: So, Frederick, tell us a little bit about Xandros and where it came from. Berenstein: Xandros originally came from the acquisition of the former Corel Linux Business Division by a group of investors called Linux Global Partners. That took place in 2001, and it was sort of the last major acquisition that Linux Global Partners did after they invested in and started some of the best-known companies in the Linux world today. For instance, Linux Global Partners started Ximian, which was sold to Novell this past summer, and Linux Global Partners also started... (more)

Breaking News: Linus Torvalds Isn't the "Father of Linux," Claims Headline-Seeking Study

Read yesterday's immediate response by Linus Torvalds to this AdTI report - LinuxWorld Exclusive: Linus Discloses *Real* Fathers of Linux There are lies, damn lies...and then there are press releases. In the last-named category falls the following absurdity blasted out to the world on Friday by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI), founded in 1988 and devoted, according to its Web site, to keeping up the tradition of de Tocqueville's "omnicurious style of journalism." In keeping with LinuxWorld tradition we will allow our readers to make up their own minds, by bringing the news release here in full: Torvalds claim to "invent" Linux® probably false, says new study FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2004 Washington, DC -- Popular but controversial "open source" computer software, generally contributed on a volunteer basis, is often taken or adapted from material owned by... (more)

"Semantic Web" Is Getting Closer and Closer, Says Tim Berners-Lee

In February, unnoticed by many, two standards became W3C recommendations: the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL). This was the signal that Tim Berners-Lee's next project, the "Semantic Web" - an extension of the current Web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation - is considered by the W3C to be ready now for more widespread adoption. Bringing his keynote audience up to date at the 13th annual WWW Conference, Berners-Lee reported that attendees could go straight out and "Semantic Web-enable" anything they can online - though "We're going to have to bootstrap things in the short term," he conceded. Referring to the process of getting RDF and OWL to the point where each could become a standard, Berners-Lee admitted that "There was a lot of pain and sweat ... (more)

Linux Advancing Worldwide in the $6 Trillion Annual Retail Sector, Says OSDL Report

"We are seeing significant Linux adoption in the retail sector as companies look for flexibility, reliability and low cost as their legacy IT systems near end of life," said Stuart Cohen, CEO of the Open Source Development Labs - home to Linus Torvalds (pictured), the creator of Linux - as OSDL today announced highlights from recent gains reported by its members on the advance of Linux worldwide in the more than $6 trillion annual retail industry. "The increasing availability of Linux-based solutions from both major vendors and ISVs is accelerating the trend. In retail, it's all about lowering costs, streamlining supply chains, and improving margins," Cohen added. According to retail analyst firm IHL Consulting Group, Linux deployments in retail increased 34 percent in 2004 over 2003. Driven by new market entrants and the rising popularity of Linux, the average cost of... (more)

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell Meets U.S. Department of Defense Internet Protocol Standards

WALTHAM, Mass., June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Novell(R) announced today it is the first Linux* vendor to appear on the U.S. Department of Defense Unified Capabilities Approved Products List (APL), as SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 2 (SP2) has received the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Special Interoperability Certification from the department's Defense Information System Agency. With this certification, Novell customers, including government agencies, can rely on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to support present and future networking standards, offering peace of mind for long-term use. The APL list is expected to become a Department of Defense and U.S. federal government equipment purchase requirement. In addition to making Novell the first Linux vendor to appear on the list, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is also the only general-purpose operating syst... (more)