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IT Management Linux News for Dec 04, 2000
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Apache Today: November 2000 Security Space Survey Results (Dec 04, 2000, 22:16)
"The Security Space Web Server Survey is a survey of Web Server
software usage on the Internet broken down by 86 domains. Security
Space estimates that even though there are almost 20 million Web
sites, nearly 90 percent are 'orphans' to which no other sites
link. Security Space's Web server survey includes only those
servers referenced on other sites."
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VNU Net: The open source challenge (Dec 04, 2000, 21:23)
"The open source community needs such a business model before it
can hope to be taken seriously by companies. For the time being,
open source just isn't at the point where it can take on the big
software companies, and it's clear that simply replacing closed
source with open source won't work."
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Wired: Red Hat Closing S.F. Office (Dec 04, 2000, 21:14)
"London attributed the layoffs to redundancies created by
acquisitions, and said the move has nothing to do with any troubles
at Red Hat."
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Byte.com: Linux In The Big League - Big Sites Gamble On Linux (Dec 04, 2000, 21:07)
"I was recently asked to do a project for a large European
public company. It received a license from the local finance
ministry to run an online casino, and the management opted for an
all-Linux solution. Bear in mind that it did so against a very
substantial offer from Microsoft to assist the project financially
(free Win 2000 licenses) and technically (free onsite MS system
engineers)."
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VARBusiness: IBM President Bets On Linux, E-Sourcing (Dec 04, 2000, 14:48)
"I believe that our commitment to bring Linux into the world of
mainstream, secure, reliable, available transaction-intensive
computing and work with the open-source community will be good for
both IBM and for the entire industry, especially for solution
providers who see the potential that Linux offers."
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Lou's Views: Penguins vs the Dismal Science (Dec 04, 2000, 14:38)
"The basic problem for the Linux distro companies, despite the
wishes to the contrary of many in our community, is that software
does indeed want to be free, as in beer. There's nothing special
about software, nor is this a special trait of its being
intellectual property instead of a physical good, like a car or a
bowling ball... Whether this explains why Red Hat's stock is
trading at under $7 a share as of the morning of December 4th, can
be debated endlessly, I suppose, but it sure looks to me like Wall
Street has figured out that even if the Emperor Penguin isn't
completely naked, he's still wearing far less than a full Armani
suite."
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AsiaBizTech.com: Linux Cluster System Business Moves into Prime Time in Japan (Dec 04, 2000, 12:47)
"System providers think that Linux clusters are most competitive
in the market just in-between small-scale Windows NT clusters and
large-scale UNIX clusters. A deputy manager at Ostsuka Shokai Co.,
Ltd.'s technical solution center says, "Linux cluster prices range
from 10 million yen to 50 million yen. Linux clusters are most
accepted by users who can afford several million yen for hardware
and need 200GB to 300GB disk capacity."
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