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	Barnes & Noble blows the lid off Microsoft's Android patent squeeze Alan Shimel: Last week Network World's Julie Bort wrote about some of what Microsoft is up to. But now the picture is much clearer thanks to more exhibits and claims put out by Barnes & Noble. They claim these license agreements go far beyond just paying to use some "trivial" patents. They claim Microsoft is trying to control future Android development and actually control Android itself. Make no mistake about it, there is a war going on in the mobile OS market and the weapons are patents. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Switching Schedulers – Not As Complicated As You Think Changing or consolidating job schedulers may seem daunting. However, the benefits of switching to enterprise workload automation outweigh the risks. Read how BMC can help realize goals like reduced cost, top-down visibility, improved SLAs, and a single enterprise view across all platforms. Learn More Today! In this Issue "There Would Be No Cloud Without Open Source" - Simon Crosby Linux loses its luster as a darling among developers OpenStack, Cloud Builders And The Future Of The Cloud Microsoft contributes GPL'd code to old enemy Samba project WHITE PAPER: F5 High-Performance DNS Services in BIG-IP Version 11 To provide high-quality user experiences on the Internet, networks must be designed with optimized, secure, highly available, and high-performance IP services. Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most difficult, but important, IP services to optimize and secure. Learn More Today! "There Would Be No Cloud Without Open Source" - Simon Crosby I first became aware of cloud security issues listening to Simon Crosby, fresh off of taking in millions and millions of Citrix dollars when they bought XenSource, speak with my friend Chris Hoff at several conferences, podcasts and blog posts. In many ways Crosby and Hoff brought cloud security and even cloud computing itself to the forefront in many peoples minds. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Streamline Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Solutions To succeed and thrive, today's organizations must create network environments that enable them to continue operations or recover in the shortest possible time. This paper provides practical advice for maintaining a functional DR strategy, and for streamlining business continuity solutions. Read More Linux loses its luster as a darling among developers The simplicity of Apple's OS X development tools, if not their price, is enticing enough to cause some developers to leave Linux behind. Insider (registration required) Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Value of Service-Centric Visibility IT organizations are under pressure to avert problems before they occur. To achieve the proactive approach required and move to the next level of service delivery, they need "service-centric" visibility that ties infrastructure components to the services that rely on them. Read More OpenStack, Cloud Builders And The Future Of The Cloud Earlier this week I wrote about a new service from Rackspace Cloud Builders division called Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition. It is a cloud management as a service (CM-aaS) offering that allows anyone to set up a private cloud on their own premises, in a Rackspace data center or even another data center. Read More Microsoft contributes GPL'd code to old enemy Samba project On October 10, a group of developers contributed a patch to the Samba Technical Mailing List. That would be an unexceptional event except that these developers worked for Microsoft, Samba is covered by the GPLv2 and there's a long and not-very-friendly history between Microsoft and the project. Read More
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