Oracle to Open Source: Drop Dead!

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	Oracle to Open Source: Drop Dead! Lets face it. While everyone in open source for the last 10 years has been beating up on Microsoft about being public enemy #1, there has been another large software company whose record is even worse. With the purchase of Sun and the dismantling of the foundational open source projects that Sun sponsored, Oracle and Larry Ellison have show their true colors. Read More WEBCAST: Infoblox Learn 4 Concepts to Network Automation Join this webinar to learn where to start introducing network automation into your organization so you can: • Address Hidden IT Costs • Support Key Initiatives • Achieve Operational Optimization • Apply IT Resources More Strategically View Now! In this Issue Who's the HOTTEST video game chick? Intel buys McAfee: My two cents Puppets are back! U is for Unified Communications The Audacity of Warner Brothers and Re-Spawning Zombie Cookies Who are these people who think cybersecurity experts are crying wolf? Is offering too many products or features a bad thing? Support remains the weak link in open source software adoption Curriki: Bringing the open source model to education WHITE PAPER: HP Setting Up a Seven-Figure IT Cost Avoidance at JEA Learn how storage acquisition costs are 67% lower, performance is faster, recovery takes minutes instead of days, and a seven figure cost avoidance lies ahead. Read Now Who's the HOTTEST video game chick? I asked my son what I thought was a simple question: "Who is the hottest video game chick?" My son went into this deep discussion on certain qualities and looks as well attitudes that made certain video game females more attractive to him. This was like my graduating from Harvard moment for me. I was so proud. The results were different for both of us. Read More Intel buys McAfee: My two cents Before the bell rang on Wall Street, Intel shocked the army of Latte sipping financial wonks by announcing its intentions to buy security leader McAfee. The deal is valued at $7.7 billion or $48 per share, about a 60% premium on the stock price. A few financial analysts who cover Intel say that this is about Intel's mobile device aspirations. Maybe. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Implementing Tiered Storage: IDC: Enterprises that are investigating deploying a tiered storage architecture should consider using an external services provider to assist with the migration. Of critical importance is the ability to offer a range of services from the initial planning all the way through to ongoing support and management. Read Now Puppets are back! U is for Unified Communications We couldn't just give up with one letter, so we decided to jump around the alphabet, and our pals I.T. Jinglehopper (you can just call him Neal) and Jackson are happy to provide a tutorial on the exciting world of unified communications. Read More The Audacity of Warner Brothers and Re-Spawning Zombie Cookies Have you ever played a first-person shooter (FPS) deathmatch game, where immediately upon death, you instantly are reborn, aka re-spawn? In gaming, I think it's fun. In regards to privacy, I'd like to take my FPS gun and shoot into cyberspace at zombie cookies. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Virtualize your end-to-end IT infrastructure A virtual storage infrastructure available only from HP can double your capacity utilization and cut management costs in half with innovations that unlock trapped capacity in individual servers or in enterprise disk arrays. Learn how. Read Now Who are these people who think cybersecurity experts are crying wolf? It happened again Monday that a news report about the threat of cyberattacks was greeted with skepticism. It's happened in the wake of some of my previous posts on the subject that commentors said the security experts warning of the threat are only scaring people in order to sell their security products and consulting services. Read More Is offering too many products or features a bad thing? My friend and I got into very interesting conversation the other day about how companies tend to focus a large amount of energy creating products or versions of their products for particular market segments. Read More Support remains the weak link in open source software adoption Acceptance of open source by IT professionals continues to increase, according to a recent survey that shows the slumping economy helped boost that trend. Read More Curriki: Bringing the open source model to education Not only can free, online, open-sourced curriculum and books make education more affordable and widespread - it also can make it fun. Read More
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