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	Skype purchase highlights a weakness in "free enough" philosophy Joe Brockmeier: If you're a Linux and heavy Skype user, the announcement that Microsoft is purchasing Skype no doubt sent shivers down your spine. You can relax, though: Steve Ballmer says everything will be OK. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Why CIOs still embrace RISC/UNIX Forrester conducted in-depth interviews with senior IT operations executives to determine if UNIX delivers high value to current and future users who have requirements that place significant weight on the historical strengths of a RISC/UNIX environment, including reliability, scalability and security. Read now In this Issue Zynga Moves Into Open Source with cocos2d Acquistion In The Cloud It Takes A Village Re-inventing SuSE and Three Futures for Mono GNU Mediagoblin Project launches Open Source PaaS On Fire Reports: Attachmate lays off Mono developers Turning Sharks into Minnows Google's Android tablet update: Four key PC-like features Google plug-in links Android mobile devices with App Engine cloud Google to unify Android OS by Q4 IBM endorses Red Hat's KVM virtualization Oracle hands Hudson to Eclipse, but Jenkins fork seems permanent Red Hat bashes Microsoft, VMware while pitching new cloud software Visit Open Source Subnet for more news and blogs WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation Best Practices for Data Performance on Storage Area Networks Because SANs work at a storage layer underneath the operating system's file system, SAN is unaware of file fragmentation and uable to solve this issue. Performance suffers. This white paper details in clear terms how, where and why Diskeeper data performance technology should be used to ensure maximum SAN performance and optimum data response time. Read more. Zynga Moves Into Open Source with cocos2d Acquistion Alan Shimel: Online gaming giant Zynga announced that they had acquired Sapus Media which is owned by the two developers of the cocos2d gaming engine for Apples iOS. Read More In The Cloud It Takes A Village Alan Shimel: Bringing a state-of-the-art cloud offering to market is not easy task. Logicworks is one example. Read More Re-inventing SuSE and Three Futures for Mono Stephen Walli: Over the past ten days we've seen the rolling announcements out of Attachmate as SuSE gets spun into a separate organization with a return to Germany and Mono employees (along with many other Novell employees) find themselves on the outside looking in. Read More GNU Mediagoblin Project launches Joe Brockmeier: The GNU Project is taking a shot photo sharing. On May 2nd, the wraps came off the GNU Mediagoblin project. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splice Communications The Benefits of Outsourcing Telecom Management Choosing the right network solutions provider (NSP) will help businesses improve network reliability, service quality, operating efficiency, billing accuracy and better allocation of resources – all reducing the total cost of ownership of your network infrastructure. Many companies have realized the benefits of working with an NSP. Read now! Open Source PaaS On Fire Alan Shimel:The latest entry into the opens source PaaS sweepstakes is OpenShift by Red Hat. Building on the power of JBoss, like other PaaS entries it is all about the languages it supports. Read More Reports: Attachmate lays off Mono developers Julie Bort: Reports are flying today that Attachmate laid off about 30 developers responsible for the Novell's Mono project. Mono ports the .Net environment to Linux. Read More Turning Sharks into Minnows Stephen Spector: I came across an interesting blog post at The Daily Flux titled "Why I still don't contribute to open source." Read More Google's Android tablet update: Four key PC-like features Google released an update to its Android 3.0 ("Honeycomb") tablet operating system today, with several features intended to make Android tablets function more like PCs. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software It's 9am. Do You Know What Your Directory is Doing? In this new Quest Software white paper, you'll see how to get more information that native logging alone can't provide. See how you can get real time, centralized information, and how doing so maximizes Active Directory performance. Read More Google plug-in links Android mobile devices with App Engine cloud The Google Plugin for Eclipse makes it easier to build native Android apps that can take data with them wherever they go Read More Google to unify Android OS by Q4 Google gave Android developers several reasons to cheer on Tuesday with its announcement of new versions of the operating system, as well as the addition of music and movies to the Android Market. Read More IBM endorses Red Hat's KVM virtualization A year after dropping Xen virtualization from its Linux software, Red Hat is still a niche player in the virtualization market. But the comapny is gaining some recognition for the KVM hypervisor.  Read More Oracle hands Hudson to Eclipse, but Jenkins fork seems permanent Oracle's Hudson moves alienated the open source community, and those behind the fork say Oracle's latest move was also done without them Read More Red Hat bashes Microsoft, VMware while pitching new cloud software Red Hat claimed it is the only choice for openness in the cloud, as the open source vendor unveiled private cloud software and a public cloud service. Read More Visit Open Source Subnet for more news and blogs This newsletter includes the latest blogs from Open Source Subnet. Open Source Subnet features the latest headlines, opinions, discussion, podcasts and book giveaways on open source technologies for enterprise users. Follow Open Source Subnet on Twitter @OSSubnet. Read More
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