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Microsoft's Azure advances may not be enough to catch Amazon Web Services
Microsoft is adding to its Azure cloud service offerings and lowering prices in order to attract customers who may already have chosen another service provider, experts say, but it might not be enough.
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Oracle ports DTrace to Oracle Linux
Oracle has ported one of its most coveted Solaris tools to the Linux platform, a real-time debugging tool called DTrace, though the company has made it officially available only for its own Oracle Linux distribution.
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IBM brings Watson technologies to new Power servers for SMBs
IBM's Watson supercomputer outperformed humans in the televised game show "Jeopardy." Now the company is moving some of its underlying technologies from the supercomputer into new entry-level servers.
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Fedora, openSUSE ditch MySQL, in a major database shake-up
Two major open-source projects, Fedora and openSUSE, are planning to ditch the venerable Oracle MySQL database framework and adopt MariaDB instead.
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Linux Foundation introduces Secure Boot workaround
The Linux Foundation has introduced a possible way that smaller Linux distributions can be run on machines using UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) technology.
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HP ships dense 4-socket servers for virtualised infrastruture
Hewlett-Packard's new four-socket blade and rack servers for virtualised environments will provide more processing cores and memory in a tighter space so that virtual machines can be deployed more quickly.
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SUSE enters OpenStack game with its own distribution
Linux vendor SUSE has thrown its hat into the already crowded OpenStack distribution game.
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SUSE Linux joins in with Windows 8 secure boot plans
For those who missed it, Windows 8's Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) will stipulate that only operating systems with an appropriate digital signature can boot. Both the Free Software Foundation and the Linux Foundation have weighed in with their own views on the matter.
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LibreOffice 3.5.5 fixes multiple arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities
LibreOffice version 3.5.5 contains fixes for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the active user, according to The Document Foundation - the organisation overseeing the development of the free productivity suite.
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AWS adds Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Reserved Instances to cloud
Amazon Web Services has added the ability to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a Reserved Instance, which allows users to cut their costs, the company said on Monday.
