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IT Management Linux News for Sep 22, 2009
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EC probe costing Oracle $100m a month (Sep 22, 2009, 22:36)
The Register: "Larry Ellison claims the
European Commission investigation into his proposed takeover of Sun
Microsystems is costing him $100m a month. Coincidentally that is
exactly how much Ellison spends on scented candles to keep his
fleet of fighter aircraft smelling fragrant."
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Five enterprise open source wiki apps to watch (Sep 22, 2009, 21:36)
CIO: "Collaborative editing of Web documents
has brought a new dimension to enterprise knowledge management. The
architecture that made Wikipedia famous can now be applied to
internal processes."
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The Linux Foundation's "Community" Doesn't Look Very Community (Sep 22, 2009, 20:06)
Linux Today Blog: "Here we are on Day Two of
the Linux Foundation's Linuxcon, and it sure looks like the face of
Linux is still a bearded one, despite the Linux Foundation's grand
claims of Community. Perhaps they have a more limited definition of
"community.""
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Does Size Matter? Picking a Sane Password Policy (Sep 22, 2009, 16:35)
Enterprise Networking Planet: "But since a
password like that would be impossible to remember, it's not really
practical for most end user applications. So how long should your
corporate password policy specify that a password should be?"
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Ellison: 'Sun losing $100 million a month' (Sep 22, 2009, 15:05)
Eye of the Needle: "With Sun, said Zander,
Oracle's getting a struggling hardware company that's losing market
share."
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Ramming Microsoft down IT's throat (Sep 22, 2009, 13:32)
InfoWorld: "...it's not far-fetched to believe
that Microsoft probably gave Nissan oodles of free licenses and
support in order to get the company to run Hyper-V in production.
It's a good thing, too, since it simply wasn't an enterprise-grade
hypervisor then and isn't now."
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Linux botnet discovery points to lazy administrators (Sep 22, 2009, 09:02)
Builder AU: "Recently, a Russian security
researcher discovered a 100-node Linux "cluster" that was running a
botnet which was, in turn, connected to a group of desktop
machines. Altogether these machines were serving up malware."
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Why Developers Get Fired (Sep 22, 2009, 03:02)
Datamation: "“You’re fired!”
Those are words that no developer wants to hear, especially with an
exclamation point. Perhaps you are thinking it could never happen
to you."
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