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Red Hat and Dell announce OEM partnership

Red Hat and Dell announced a new partnership today that could mark a further expansion of open source software use in the enterprise.
Hitachi launches all-in-one data centre service

Hitachi has launched a new data centre business, the "GNEXT Facility & IT Management Service", that includes everything from planning and construction to IT support.
Facebook open source data centre project gains strength

Facebook's year-old project to develop open source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centres gained momentum on yesterday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs.
'Vivaldi' Linux tablet could have Spring release

The fully open 'Vivaldi' Linux tablet is almost ready for production and shipping, and will be priced around £165.
Red Hat releases OpenShift source code

Open source software distributor Red Hat has released the source code for its OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, allowing developers to run the platform on multiple cloud fabrics, including OpenStack.
Rackspace switches over to OpenStack

In what will be one of the first large scale OpenStack commercial deployments, hosting company Rackspace is moving its server and other hosting services to the OpenStack API (application programming interface).
Samba releases patch to fix critical remote code execution hole

The developers of Samba, the open source software that enables file and print sharing between Linux, Windows and Mac OS X computers, released security patches on Tuesday to address a critical vulnerability that can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on systems where the Samba service is running.
Red Hat Storage 2.0 beta version announced

Red Hat Storage 2.0 beta was announced yesterday by the Massachusetts-based open source software company.
Red Hat: beware of cloud 'open-washing'

Open source software company Red Hat believes that companies like VMware and Microsoft are skewing the definition of open cloud by claiming that their virtualisation products are open when in fact they are closed.
Red Hat joins billion-dollar revenue club

Red Hat is the first open source software company to generate a billion dollars in annual revenue.

Latest Features

Virtualisation - Don't let security lag behind technology maturity

Virtualisation is mainstream, with virtualised servers, storage, networking and software featuring in most enterprise IT departments. Applications and workloads are assigned to virtual machines (VMs) and moved from machine to machine as a matter of course, and as a result, deploying physical servers is now the exception rather than the rule.
Sirius CTO: UK businesses must start tapping SME talent

The time has come for small and medium businesses to get the recognition they deserve, according to Andrew Savory, newly-appointed Chief Technology Officer at open source systems integrator Sirius
Open source code has fewer mistakes

Free and open source software such as Firefox, LibreOffice, and Linux is enjoying increasingly widespread adoption on business and home computers alike, but every once in a while a naysayer will still pipe up with one vague concern or another about open source quality, in particular.
Rockbox developers discuss the open source MP3 player firmware

Techworld Australia recently caught up with some of the developers of Rockbox to discuss the open source project, which is designed to replace the firmware shipped on MP3 players and portable media players.
CRM trends you need to watch

Customer relationship management vendors and industry analysts discuss which CRM trends will continue to gain strength and what new trends IT professionals need to watch.
Open source licences and business: What you need to know

For most of the 2000s, copyleft licenses (in particular the GPLv2) were the most popular choice for new open source projects. In the last few years, developers and companies seem to be trending away from the GPL in favor of permissive licences for open source projects.
10 up-and-coming open source projects you should know about

With so many open source software projects under way at any given moment, it can be difficult to keep tabs on all that's going on.
Boost your web store with an open source shopping cart solution

For businesses that rely on online transactions, open source shopping carts are a good alternative to proprietary ecommerce software: They are a fraction of the cost and are supported by large communities of users and developers.
Microsoft is finally making good products

If you've read many of my articles over the past 20 years, you may have noticed that I don't care for Microsoft or its products. That isn't because I think open source software or Apple products are unbeatably great. It's because Microsoft's products are usually awful.
Why you should be using Linux Mint 12

For any new release of a popular Linux distribution, there are typically numerous fans eagerly awaiting the software's final debut. For Linux Mint 12, however, that anticipation may well have broken all previous records, so anxious have Linux fans been to see the new release's answer to the controversial desktop environments increasingly appearing in other operating systems.

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Open source governance in highly regulated companies

Open source software can empower developers, increase innovation and improve competitiveness, and its popularity is growing tremendously. Open source now represents an average of 29% of the code deployed by IT and technology innovators are using 60%-80% of open source code, which can yield cost savings and free-up development resources to improve competitive differentiation.
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