Linux News: Implementation

Wind River Releases Hard and Heavy Hypervisor

Wednesday - June 17, 2009

Wind River on Tuesday announced the availability of a high-performance Type-1 hypervisor as the latest addition to its VxWorks product portfolio. The Wind River Hypervisor Multicore Software Solution for device development supports virtualization on single and multicore processors. The new hypervisor integrates with Wind River's two operating systems, VxWorks and Wind River Linux, and supports other operating systems as well as SMP, asymmetric multiprocessing and supervised AMP. [More...]

EnterpriseDB Smooths Way for Oracle App Migration

Tuesday - June 16, 2009

EnterpriseDB, which has commercialized the PostgreSQL open source database, announced on Tuesday the fifth version of its Postgres Plus Advanced Server. This latest version of EnterpriseDB's relational database management system is designed to let users easily migrate more Oracle applications in order to cut costs. [More...]

Acer Greases Android for Netbook Duty

Tuesday - June 2, 2009

Taiwanese computer manufacturer Acer, which seems to be having an on-again, off-again relationship with netbooks running Android, is now reportedly working on one. Jim Wong, the firm's president of IT products, made the announcement Tuesday at Computex Taipei, Asia's largest computer exhibition. The first Acer model to run Android will be the Aspire One. [More...]

Free Help for Implementing FOSS in the Enterprise

Wednesday - May 27, 2009

There are clearly more reasons these days than ever before for companies to adopt free and open source More about open source software. Adopting it they are, too -- in droves, it seems. However, enterprise software -- whether free or proprietary -- is not something you can just plug in and then be done with it. [More...]

What Does a Linux Support Contract Buy?

Wednesday - May 20, 2009

Though it's struggled when it comes to kicking in doors in the consumer market, Linux has clearly found a welcome home in the enterprise, and it appears to be making itself more comfortable with each passing day. "It's the fastest-growing server-side operating system of any of them that are out there -- Unix, Windows, you name it," said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. [More...]

Flames, Figures and FUD: What's the Score in the Netbook Arena?

Monday - April 13, 2009

Visitors to the Linux blogosphere over the past few days may have emerged with singed hair and scorch marks, because a raging firestorm left few forums unscathed. It all began when Brandon LeBlanc of the Windows Team Blog posted a review of Windows on netbooks over the past year. [More...]

Novell Aims for the Clouds With Suse Enterprise 11

Tuesday - March 24, 2009

Taking aim at the next generation of computing -- virtualization and the cloud -- Novell on Tuesday unveiled Suse Linux Enterprise 11. Suse Linux Enterprise 11 has been optimized for the major hypervisors -- VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen. It runs on the x86, Itanium, IBM Power and IBM System z platforms, all of which are used in IT infrastructure virtualization. [More...]

Instant-On Computing: The Killer OSS-Based PC Feature?

Wednesday - March 18, 2009

In our age of instant gratification, no one likes waiting for anything. That's why the sluggish launch time of a typical personal computer can make a consumer irritable. It's also why instant-on computing has become a sort of Holy Grail for hardware and software makers in the industry. The pursuit of instant-on is a quest that's given Linux traction in an arena that for years it has found a tough nut to crack. [More...]

'My First Time' Posts and Other Linux Marketing Problems

Thursday - March 5, 2009

In our ongoing quest to bring readers all the FOSS news that's fit to print -- with the occasional addition, perhaps, of some that isn't -- we here at LinuxInsider are always suckers for a good contest. And so we're delighted to spread the word about a contest that recently made the news on Slashdot -- involving $200,000 in cash prizes, no less! [More...]

Cleaning Out the Closet: What to Do With Those Worn-Out Legacy Systems

Wednesday - March 4, 2009

Many large enterprises still run critical applications on legacy Linux and Unix platforms. Much like the fabled Energizer Bunny, these old computing OSes keep going and going and going. Some of these are not even in production any more. Upgrading these systems is no simple matter, partly because the organizations using them cannot simply turn off servers containing customer or financial data. [More...]

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