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IT Management Linux News for May 20, 2009
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The new face of open source on Wall Street (May 20, 2009, 22:32)
The Open Road: "Cost may be a primary driver
for the shift to open source, but as the managing director of
Technology Risk Management at Bank of New York Mellon told me,
open-source software has become the innovation platform of choice
for financial services companies."
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ASEAN Free Software Wishlist (May 20, 2009, 22:02)
Brendan Scott's Weblog: "But, so far as I am
aware no one actually is throwing money around. Which is
disappointing, given that the Australian government donates $100
million a year to the copyright lobby and even more to the closed
source lobby."
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Newham and the Prisoner's Dilemma (May 20, 2009, 21:32)
open Enterprise: "First the bad. Newham
demonstrates that once Microsoft products are used for a large
number of functions in a large organisation, there is a natural
tendency to use even more of them because of the way that Microsoft
links and binds them together."
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Cisco makes peace with Free Software Foundation (May 20, 2009, 20:32)
Cyber Cynic: "Last December, the Free Software
Foundation sued Cisco for copyright infringement. Some people saw
this battle being like a moth tackling a light-bulb-a total no win
situation for the moth. But, a few months later, what do we find?
Cisco is making friends with the free software instead of burning
it to a crisp. "
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Many Sun Products to Wither and Die (May 20, 2009, 19:32)
CIO Update: "With slumping budgets, declining
server market, and a moribund Sun, Oracle will be hard-pressed to
make the hardware side of this deal a strong success."
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Secret code and the damage it does to our society (May 20, 2009, 18:02)
Computerworld UK: "However things have moved on
and secret code is becoming a threat to our civil liberties and to
the development of IT in general."
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If Oracle commits to Solaris, will IBM buy Red Hat? (May 20, 2009, 17:02)
The Open Road: "Katherine Egbert has predicted
(again) that Red Hat will be bought, this time by IBM. While I have
indulged my own Red Hat acquisition fantasies in the past, I just
can't see a near-term acquisition of Red Hat by IBM.
Unless...."
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How Old is that Data on the Hard Drive? (May 20, 2009, 16:32)
Linux Magazine: "The vast of amount of data
being stored in this day and age, naturally leads to files sitting
unused for longer and longer periods of time. A new app, agedu, can
quickly tell you what data on your filesystem is lying fallow."
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Why are you not running Apache? New IIS holes should make you rethink your web server (May 20, 2009, 15:32)
Linux Journal: "What got me thinking about
Apache was partially nostalgia and partially head banging and
continued frustration with government use of IIS, especially given
the exciting events this week."
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The RIAA Has Got to Stop (May 20, 2009, 10:33)
PC Magazine: "I ask this simple question: If
there's a band out there whose CD I would buy, how am I supposed to
discover this band? Tell me how! Is Rush Limbaugh going to play
them?"
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Joining a Windows 7 system to a Samba domain (May 20, 2009, 09:03)
GGTSdotNET: "Turns out you have to add two reg
keys as well. Since it took me a fair bit of search to find this, I
thought I'd document the required changes here, if for no other
reason to save myself the trouble when I went to do it
again..."
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Microsoft now all about cooperation? Yes, thanks to patents (May 20, 2009, 04:33)
ars Technica: "Far from being the evil
monopolist, Microsoft has in many ways become the cooperative
giant--and it's all thanks to intellectual property. The company's
IP czar takes us inside the corporate transformation in a new book,
Burning the Ships, to show us how it happened (and to take a few
potshots at Richard Stallman)."
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