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	Where to shop for a new Linux machine Stephen Spector: I am thinking of purchasing a new Linux machine, probably a desktop or laptop, and wanted to share the process of searching for a machine. Read More WEBCAST: Cymphonix Gain Complete Control Over Internet Bound Traffic The Cymphonix Network Composer is the only network appliance that provides comprehensive clarity into all internet bound network traffic and simply powerful tools to manage that traffic with a holistic approach. Learn More Today! In this Issue Will The Real Hadoop Company Please Stand Up The End Of Open Source Affirmative Action Facebook restores access and uploaded photos for KDE apps Facebook bans KDE application, deletes user photos Rapid7 Expands Its Support Of Open Source Security Projects Open Or Proprietary, It's Whether It Works Or Not That Counts Virtualization Industry Shakeup After OpenOffice and Hudson, will Oracle stick with open source? Yahoo forms Hortonworks, a new Hadoop company Android lovers: Don't overlook Nook Survey Shows Enterprise Open Source Usage Ubiquitous Visit Open Source Subnet for more news and blogs WHITE PAPER: EMC The Changing Role of Network Management Read how new challenges in IT like virtualization and cloud computing are changing the role of Network Managers, who are now required to leverage automation and integrated solutions even further to adapt to these changes. Learn how EMC Ionix Network Solutions help Network Managers overcome these challenges. Read now Will The Real Hadoop Company Please Stand Up Alan Shimel: The Hadoop market is white hot right now. It seems everywhere we turn there is a new company throwing their hat into the Hadoop world.  Is all of the attention justified? Read More The End Of Open Source Affirmative Action Alan Shimel: Some of the largest companies in the open source world have been moving away from the term open source as a primary differentiator in their marketing material. Read More Facebook restores access and uploaded photos for KDE apps Joe Brockmeier: A day after KDE users found their pictures gone missing and KDE apps unable to load pics, Facebook has restored access and photos. What happened? Read More Facebook bans KDE application, deletes user photos Joe Brockmeier: KDE users have gotten a rather unpleasant surprise from Facebook: Not only is the site blocking KDE apps like Gwenview from uploading, the social media giant has also taken down photos uploaded with the KDE plugins. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Data Center Transformations Build outs, consolidations and acquisitions are large-scale projects that can be very disruptive and require careful planning and implementation to maintain operations. This white paper examines the process and what's required to meet IT goals and objectives and maintain business continuity. Read now! Rapid7 Expands Its Support Of Open Source Security Projects Alan Shimel: My friend HD Moore who leads the development team for Metasploit at Rapid7 told me about another open source project that Rapid7 has been supporting. Read More Open Or Proprietary, It's Whether It Works Or Not That Counts Alan Shimel: Just because a given technology or product is not open or does not support an open standard, does not make necessarily bad. Read More Virtualization Industry Shakeup Stephen Spector: Simon Crosby, previously the CTO of Citrix System announced today that himself, Ian Pratt, previously VP of Engineering of Citrix Systems and Chairman of Xen.org, and Gaurav Banga, creator of Phoenix Hyperspace are launching a new startup, Bromium, Inc. Read More After OpenOffice and Hudson, will Oracle stick with open source? NetBeans, MySQL, and GlassFish are all likely to remain in Oracle's software portfolio as they have profit potential Read More WHITE PAPER: Siemens 3 Steps for Choosing the Right UC Solution Communication is at the heart of how many small businesses operate. However, few organizations stop to consider how the way they communicate is inefficient. Many consider this to be a cost of doing business. But what if your business could overcome these problems? Learn More Yahoo forms Hortonworks, a new Hadoop company Yahoo and Benchmark Capital have founded a company tasked with advancing the open source Hadoop software framework for applications that manage massive amounts of data. Read More Android lovers: Don't overlook Nook Among the multitude of Android tablets that have been released, or are about to be this year, the Nook Color has managed to achieve impressive sales and spark a cult following. (Since its release in November 2010, it has reportedly sold 3 million units.) Read More Survey Shows Enterprise Open Source Usage Ubiquitous In the past several years, open source has gone mainstream. A new survey by OpenLogic shows that virtually every enterprise is using open source software. Read More Visit Open Source Subnet for more news and blogs Visit the Open Source Subnet home page for daily news items, blogs, discussions and podcasts of interest to enterprise open source users. Follow Open Source Subnet on Twitter @OSSubnet. Read More
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