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Open source in 2010
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| Google, on the other hand, has done wonders
| with its Android OS which is now right up
| there with the likes of the iPhone and is
| getting better all the time. Android will,
| without a doubt, be in the headlines
| throughout the coming year as Google takes
| other mobile makers on head-to-head.
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| But open source will also start appearing
| on devices other than just mobile phones.
| Google's Chrome OS and the Moblin OS are
| just a couple of the viable, Linux-based,
| alternatives for netbooks that will start
| to become important in the coming year.
|
| A couple of years ago Linux look poised to
| take over the netbook market but Microsoft
| managed to claw back its dominance in this
| market with Windows XP.
|
| This time around Microsoft may not be as
| lucky. There are indications that Linux now
| has its second wind and, together with a
| strong mobile phone presence, is ready to
| give Microsoft a serious fight in the
| ultra-portable space.
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http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/11123.html
Vyatta: Pressuring Cisco Prices?
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| Open source appliance maker Vyatta has unveiled the 3500
| networking appliance family, which combines routing,
| firewall and VPN functionality. Vyatta claims the
| appliance offers 10 Gbps networking capability at 1/20th
| the cost other âname-brandâ networking appliances. But are
| solutions providers and their customers really ready for open
| source network?
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/01/14/vyatta-pressuring-cisco-prices/
"Geeks rule!"? Yes - but what that means depends.
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| The striking thing about the exercise was
| that an easy majority have moved the
| database for this to MySQL on Linux with
| holdouts on Solaris (mostly also MySQL),
| HP-UX, and various Microsoft configurations
| - but the unexpected thing was that none of
| the Unix people had any difficulty either
| understanding it or doing it; while the
| Wintel people equally unanimously wanted
| meetings, paperwork, âa better
| understanding of the requirementsâ, and in
| something like three out of four cases
| additional monies from their bosses before
| they could see about getting it done.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1757&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zdnet%2FMurphy+%28ZDNet+Paul+Murphy%29
Recent:
Big Blue rides Schooner to MySQL boost
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| As countless crafty upstarts have learned time
| and again in the IT racket, it's tough to get
| a server vendor who makes a living peddling
| boxes to get excited about server appliances
| that get rid of banks of servers. But IBM has
| inked a deal with upstart Schooner Information
| Technology to resell its web-caching and
| MySQL-boosting appliances starting in early
| March.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/15/schooner_ibm_deal/
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