Is IBM Truly Committed to Open Source?
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| The answer appears to be a resounding "yes."
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| Open-source software (OSS) was the purview of hackers and other "computer
| radicals" when I was first introduced to its wonders. Back then,
| forward-thinking geeks smuggled OSS into corporate America, where it was put
| to good use for replacing Windows file/print servers and for
| intranet/Internet infrastructure. Installing OSS had to be a clandestine
| operation, given that the pointy-hair management types were unwilling to
| believe that a free product could perform as well as, if not better than, the
| proprietary software it was destined to replace. Thus, there was little or no
| management buy-in (pun intended) or approval for its utilization.
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http://www.mcpressonline.com/february-25-2008-vol-3-issue-4/operating-systems/linux/open-source/is-ibm-truly-committed-to-open-source.html
This is interesting:
Shift to multicore processors inevitable, but enterprises face challenges
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| IBM started charging on the basis of "processor value units" in 2006, a
| measurement of processor performance. Microsoft has been more vocal than any
| vendor, Staten says, insisting on a per-socket pricing model because it's
| easy to calculate and the number of sockets in a system won't change as
| dramatically as the number of cores.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/022708-multicore-processors.html?fsrc=rss-linux-redhat
How many times was Microsoft caught cheating? See the link below as well.
Related:
Vista licensing also limits benchmarking
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| License transfers aren't the only thing the End User License Agreement
| (EULA) for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista OS limits. The license
| also puts restrictions on how benchmarks of certain components of
| the OS can be published, another issue that is raising eyebrows as
| Microsoft still has not clarified how changes will specifically
| affect users.
|
| According to the Vista EULA, because the OS contains "one or more
| components" of the .Net Framework 3.0, users can conduct internal
| benchmarking of those components, but can't disclose the results
| of those benchmarks -- or measurements to compare rival products
| -- unless they comply with conditions found at a Microsoft Web
| site.
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http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2218/061101vistalicense/index.html
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