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San Diego-based Sony Online Entertainment has made an equity investment in an open source database company. The online game operator said today that it has invested in EnterpriseDB, make of the open source EnterpriseDB Advanced Server database software, as a part of a deal to use the database in its online operations. Sony Online Entertainment invested in a Series A deal that included Charles River Ventures and Valhalla Partners. New Jersey-based EnterpriseDB develops a version of the open source PostgresSQL database software targeted at the enterprise database market. Sony is an operator of massively multiplayer online games including the popular EverQuest online world.
Sony Online Invests In Database Maker

Feature request;)

Nincs valakinek kedve elkesziteni a language-env (debian csomag), magyar moduljat?
a csomag arra valo, hogy az userek egyesevel tudjanak konnyen mas nyelvu kornyezetet letrehozni.

http://packages.debian.org/language-env
doksiban levo link, de ez most eppen(?) nem mukodik:
language-env

pusztan kozgazdasagi szamitasok alapjan mondja ezt egy amerikai pártonkívüli politikai/allamigazgatási kutatóintézet. 10-szer annyi haszon szarmazna belole, mint amennyibe kerulne+amennyit vesztenenek a M$, es tarsai:

The Center for American Progress is proposing an R&D tax credit for open source development." From the article: "Subsidizing open source software development can also be justified on grounds of economic efficiency. Open source software development enhances the ability of other developers to create new products. It also enhances the development and dissemination of knowledge and ideas more broadly. Since the benefits to the broader software development community and the economy as a whole go well beyond the users of an individual software product, a policy that subsidizes open source development would increase economic efficiency.
Open Source R&D Tax Credit?

Cray Inc. said on Monday it plans to develop supercomputers that will integrate a range of processing technologies in a single platform.

Cray said that over the next few years its supercomputers will combine standard microprocessors, vector processing, multithreading and hardware accelerators in one platform that uses the industry-standard Linux operating system.

Cray unveils supercomputer integration plan

627 exabytes of flash memory to ship in 2006 by ZDNet's ZDNet Research -- Demand for data flash memory will soar to 235 bln megabytes 2005 and 627 bln in 2006, when Samsung will supply almost half the market. Multilevel cell technology will become the leading memory type by Q2 2006, according to Gartner.

Conclusion

Western Europe contributes the most with Norway currently ranked number one.

OSS Activity Study

PS3 to ship with Linux, Sony confirms

The US Army's program manager for the $120+ billion Future Combat Systems Brigade Combat Team was recently speaking in Fort Lauderdale, FL at the Association of the U.S. Army's annual winter conference. He said they want a common computing environment throughout FCS's myriad vehicles, flying UAVs, UGV ground robots, sensors et. al.

According to Federal Computer Weekly, Maj. Gen. Charles Cartwright added that Linux running on Intel-based computers seems to provide the best common operating environment and central processing unit for computers in FCS, as it works best with the US Army's current and future applications.

In a classic example of "Do as I say, not as I do", Richard Grimes analyses the ratio of native to managed code in Microsoft's upcoming Vista Operating System. According to the analysis at Microsoft Vista and .NET, "Microsoft appears to have concentrated their development effort in Vista on native code development. Vista has no services implemented in .NET and Windows Explorer does not host the runtime, which means that the Vista desktop shell is not based on the .NET runtime. The only conclusion that can be made from these results is that between PDC 2003 and the release of Vista Beta 1 Microsoft has decided that it is better to use native code for the operating system, than to use the .NET framework.

Configuring Apache for Maximum Performance

jo anyag, erdeemes lenne leforditani:
Top 10 Reasons Linux pwns Your OS

Hogy valtozik a vilag. nehany eve meg a WeHaveTheWayOut weboldalat uzemeltettek a Microsofttal karoltve. Aminek a lenyege, hogy hogyan kell megszabadulni a UNIX-tol, es windowsra valtani. most mar itt tartanak:

Unisys says open source to doom proprietary software

Mandriva fires founder

Méghozzá nem is sokára (2006-ban?), ugyanis 2005-ben 16 milliárd$-nyi Linuxos üzlete volt az IBM-nek. Ebből 3 milliárd$-t tettek ki a kormányzatok által Linux alá vásárolt hardverek. Ez 35%-al több, mint 1 éve.
Az IBM-nek 15000 Linuxos mérnöke, és 10000 Linuxos szolgáltatásokkal dolgozó embere van. 30000 dolgozója (közel 10%-a a teljes IBM állománynak) jelenleg Linuxos is desktopon használ munka közben.
forrás: IBM’s Linux business will be worth more than US$50 billion, says Linux head

Stephen Shipman delivers a very articulate and concise view of how Linux fits in server and end user environments. He expresses his view in response to Nicolas Petreley's 'rant' in Linux Journal. He points out the subtle implications of efficiency versus consistency." From the article: "[...] efficiency (as measured by keystrokes) isn't the only metric for ease of use. Consistency must also be taken into account. Microsoft has made a lot of hay (and green) by flogging consistency
forras: Linux, to be (Like Microsoft) or Not to be?

The OS Group of Technische Universitaet Dresden (TUD:OS) has released a live demo CD of their custom operating system project. TUD:OS is a microkernel-based operating system targeted at secure and real-time systems. Some highlights of the demo CD include a new approach for securing graphical user interfaces called Nitpicker, multiple L4Linux kernels running at the same time on top of a custom L4 microkernel, a survey on the reuse of device drivers on the TUD:OS platform, native Qt-applications, the DOpE windowing system, games, and much more. More information is available at the demo CD website. And yes, boys and girls, there are screenshots, too.

http://moon.google.com/
http://mars.google.com/
Only in a bubble is Google's web WP an Office-killer

Linux Dictionary

In 1998, Roesch, then 28 and an engineer at telecom company GTE-I, created an open-source program called Snort for detecting intrusions into computer networks. Today, he sheepishly acknowledges that he's a multimillionaire, having sold Sourcefire, the company he created to sell add-ons to Snort, for $225 million to security software leader Check Point. (The deal is expected to be finalized before the end of the first quarter 2006.)

Free code for sale: the new business of open source

Regi tortenet, de mostanra sikerult leforditani magyarra. Hiaba tanyasi parasztok vayunk, aki nem ertenek az ertelmes (angol) szobol);))

600 000 munkaállomásból álló rendszert épít a Novell

New_South_Wales linuxozik, ne is akarhogy:
NSW Govt may move tens of thousands of desktops to Linux

Sightseeing with Google Satellite Maps

Running Quake 3 at a resolution of 10240x3072, this custom multi-panel display consists of 24 monitors powered by 12 Linux servers, created as part of a wall-based user interface research project.

Quake 3 in 10240x3072

News.com is reporting that the European Union still doesn't consider Microsoft in compliance with its anti-trust ruling." From the article: "Should the Commission issue a final decision against Microsoft, the software giant would face a retroactive fine of $2.36 million a day for the period between Dec. 15 and the date the final decision is issued. The Commission may then take additional steps to extend the daily fine until Microsoft complies with the order. The Commission's letter is just the latest action it has taken in the closely watched antitrust case.

IBM on Thursday announced that it had scored a breakthrough in file system technology that increases the speed of data access by seven times. Researchers were able to attain a 102-gigabyte per second transfer rate on the ASC Purple supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in a recent test.

The file system was an astonishing 1.6 petabytes in size, the largest ever in the world, and performance was maintained even as 1,000 clients pushed workloads into the file. The project used 104 Power-based eServer p575 nodes and 416 storage controllers.
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