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Webopedia: OpenFlow is an open standard network protocol used to manage traffic between commercial Ethernet switches, routers and wireless access points. OpenFlow enables software-defined networking (SDN) for programmable networks.

The Register: The good open source lord giveth, and it taketh away, and no one knows this better than Red Hat.

PCWorld: It's no secret that open source software is playing an increasingly prominent role in businesses around the globe

InternetNews: Workforce reductions are never easy

 LinuxExpres: Open publishing accounts for a relatively small proportion of scholarly publishing

 Linux-News: To date, I have used two Open Source Content Management Systems (CMSs) to run five on-line communities and paid the price.

InternetNews: Cisco's open source android powered tablet is being killed off slowly.

LinuxJournal: Directory services is one of the most interesting and crucial parts of computing today.

FierceGovernmentIT: If a Defense agency is able to sustain the open source software with "its own skills and talents" then that can be enough to satisfy the intent of the memo.

ServerWatch: The developers behind Puppet are going a step further, taking aim at bare metal provisioning in an open source effort with EMC called Razor.

ZDnet: An old myth is that the Linux desktop doesn’t have the applications most users need, but lately some companies that have long supported Linux are pulling back from the Linux desktop and that’s a worry.

The Register: From Linux to big-data shifter

InternetNews: From the 'Bigger fish to Fry' files:

Geek: The Grive application can be installed from the repository in Ubuntu 11.10 or later. The source code is also available at GitHub if you want to tinker a bit.

HowtoForge: This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP).

LinuxUser: Free software idealism is a necessary and desirable part of the software landscape

InternetNews: From the 'Greed Doesn't Conquer All' files

 ZDnet: Oracle loses its patent claims and so Google has almost completely defeated Oracle in its vain attempts to squeeze an intellectual property payoff from Google and Android

Forbes: A bold move, to shift the business model and competition from a pure commodity space to a more diversified services space. I’m following their progress in this endeavor – initially surprising, their analysis and reasoning is I think valid and innovative.

Linux.com: More than 50 percent of all software purchased within five years will be open source, according to a survey released Monday by a collaboration of 26 open source companies.

 ITWorld: Jim Whitehurst, President & CEO Red Hat,  told the OSBC audience that open source is setting off the explosion of new innovation.

Ubuntu Geek: In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go.

InternetNews: Facebook's Billions and Red Hat's virtualization regrets

ComputerWorld UK: The UK government has finally unveiled the second iteration of its Cloudstore after a number of delays, and has reneged on its pledge to make version 2.0 open source.

HowtoForge: This tutorial shows how you can install and run OXID eShop Community Edition (version 4.5.9) on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP).

Datamation: On the Internet, sometimes free doesn't mean completely free.

HowtoForge: In this guide I will use Subversion to manage all the Tasks. You can use any other SCM system as well, as long it supports something similar to Subversion's external directive. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 but you can use other distributions as well.

OpenSource.com: One of the most overlooked reasons to get involved with an open source project is career advancement

 ITWorld: Now that Apache OpenOffice 3.4 has been released, IBM has begun to take formal steps to re-integrate its Lotus Symphony fork of OpenOffice.org back into the OpenOffice mainline.

InternetNews: From the 'I told you so' files

HowtoForge: This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Debian Squeeze. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here.

Groklaw: Oracle, as expected, is going to drag in Larry Page and Eric Schmidt,

OStatic: While waiting for the Mandriva management to decide the future direction of the distribution, the community is taking matters into their own hands and beginning the planning stages for the next release,

UbuntuVibes: a big part of Toy Story 2 was almost deleted because of an accidental Linux command 'rm' and poor backup system

V3: Jim Zemlin, as the executive director of The Linux Foundation, campaigns to accelerate the adoption of Linux software

eWeek: FuseSource, the open source integration company, announced the availability of new products that enable enterprises to use open-source technology for all of their integration and messaging needs.

InternetNews: From the 'Most Successful Open Source Foundation' files

ServerWatch: When Red Hat had its IPO in 1999, there was no such thing as Enterprise Linux.

TechRepublic: Jack Wallen suggests ditching the Windows Terminal Server and migrating to using a Linux box. Learn how to set up and use NX Free, a tool that can help with this task.

OMG! Ubuntu: After Microsoft’s aquisition of Skype – the worlds most popular VoIP application – many users had assumed that it marked the beginning of the end for the clients’ life on Linux.