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LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice.org: Showdown for best open source office suite

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LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice.org: Showdown for best open source office suite
With the release of a new version of LibreOffice this month, it's a good time to look at the two major open source office suites, LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org, to see what advantages each offers, and which is a better bet for end users. Read More


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Importance of Permanent Link Testing
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10 essential MySQL tools for admins
The MySQL community is a hotbed of free, open source tools to enhance the performance and health of your MySQL systems. Read More

An open source Gorilla in the mists
Back in April I wrote about a Colorado based company called Gorilla Logic. They develop Rich Internet Applications and Mobile Apps. Driven partially at least by their own needs, they have also developed a suite of automated testing tools for iPhone, iPad, Adobe Air and Flex. Read More


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ADCs Take Over Where Load Balancers Leave Off
Application Delivery Controllers understand applications and optimize server performance - offloading compute-intensive tasks that prevent servers from quickly delivering applications. Learn how ADCs have taken over where load balancers left off. Read now!

Google's VP8 getting help from an unlikely Ssurce
Google received support this week for its embattled WebM video format from an unlikely source. Skype announced that it has adopted VP8 the codec in WebM as its default solution for video conferencing for both one on one and group video calls. Read More

Twitter to open source streaming data analyzer
Expanding the field of complex event process software with another offering, Twitter will release as open source its software for analyzing live large-scale data streams, called Storm. Read More

Can you be open source and not open source?
Are there rules for open source projects/companies? Read More


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Building a Faster VDI Infrastructure at Less Cost
This note summarizes the cost and performance challenges of the VDI infrastructure, and the solutions offered by new fabric-based solutions. Learn why next-gen cloud architectures increase overall VDI performance while reducing complexity. Read now.

Microsoft adds Hadoop support to SQL Server, data warehouse
Microsoft is responding to the "Big Data" movement by adding support for the open-source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing to its SQL Server database and Parallel Data Warehouse platform. Read More

Fedora 16 to skip btrfs by default
One of the main features planned for Fedora 16 was a switch to btrfs by default. However, as the first alpha for F16 approaches, it looks like it will be another cycle before the filesystem gets its day in the Sun. Read More

Apple ditches MySQL in favor of PostgreSQL
In addition to the new Mac OSX Lion desktop OS shipping recently, Apple also updated their server software to Lion as well. In an unannounced change Apple has swapped out the built in MySQL database installed in previous OS X server versions and replaced it with PostgreSQL in Lion. This turn of events of course has the PostgreSQL community all a twitter. Read More

Pillars of Python: Six Python Web frameworks compared
CubicWeb, Django, Pyramid, Web.py, Web2py, and Zope 2 give Python-savvy Web application developers powerful and diverse options Read More

Xen developers conference showcases the future of virtualization and the cloud
One of my favorite sayings is, "Open source software is as much about people as it is about technology." This week in Santa Clara, CA over one hundred people active in the open source Xen hypervisor community – largely developers and power users – gathered to discuss the state of the popular open source hypervisor. Read More



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