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IT Management Linux News for Dec 18, 2008
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Digium: Asterisk Accelerates As Economy Crumbles (Dec 18, 2008, 23:03)
The VAR Guy: "Even as the US economy collapsed
this fall, Asterisk downloads rose 30 percent, according to Digium.
But that's not all. The company's partner program is generating
exponential growth."
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MySQL, YourSQL, OurSQL (Dec 18, 2008, 21:03)
Open Enterprise: "Jeremy Zawodny, ex-Yahoo,
currently at Craigslist, is generally regarded as one of the gurus
of the MySQL world. His recent thoughts on the evolution of that
project - called, significantly, "The New MySQL Landscape" - are
therefore particularly interesting, not least because it uses the
"f"-word: fork."
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Three Ways to Create Web-Accessible Calendars on Your Intranet (Dec 18, 2008, 19:33)
Linux.com: "Let's take a look at three projects
that are aimed at showing calendar information through a Web
interface: WebCalendar, VCalendar, and CaLogic. These projects run
on a LAMP server and provide a Web interface to calendar
events."
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British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows (Dec 18, 2008, 18:03)
Slashdot: "On his Government blog, Microsoft's
Ian McKenzie announced today that the Royal Navy was ahead of
schedule for switching their nuclear submarines to a customized
Microsoft Windows solution dubbed 'Submarine Command System Next
Generation (SMCS NG)' which apparently consists of Windows 2000
network servers and XP workstations. In the article, it is claimed
that this decision will save UK taxpayers £22m over the next
ten years."
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ZaReason Preparing Ubuntu Servers (Dec 18, 2008, 15:33)
WorksWithU: "ZaReason, one of the best-known
companies developing Ubuntu desktops and notebooks, plans to
introduce Ubuntu server products soon. I welcome the news, but the
Ubuntu server market still faces tall challenges."
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The Reluctant Lawsuit: The FSF Pursues Its Claim Against Cisco (Dec 18, 2008, 00:03)
Datamation: "Cisco Systems is a gold member of
the Linux Foundation, the non-profit association "dedicated to
fostering the growth of Linux." Yet according to a lawsuit for
copyright violation filed last week by the Software Freedom Law
Center on behalf of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), Cisco has
repeatedly infringed on the copyright of core GNU/Linux utilities
over the last five years."
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