Amazon Web services upgrades its Linux implementation

	How Open Source Powers a Battlestar Galactica-Inspired Flight Simulator | Are Open Source Libraries Any More Vulnerable Than Closed Source?
	Network World Linux and Open Source				Forward this to a Friend >>>
	How to Benchmark Your Browser for HTML5 Contemporary browsers are much more than just a window into the World Wide Web: Browser developers have turned the software into sophisticated application platforms in their own right. But browsers are not the same as hardware platforms--rather, they function as virtual environments accessible from a variety of platforms. For example, you can have Google's Chrome browser on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Android devices. Read More WEBCAST: BMC BMC Control-M - Single Point of Control Demo With BMC Control-M, you schedule and manage everything — down to the very last platform and application — from one simple interface. It's the foundation of workload automation, really — the ability to run application and business processes as one. Siloed job schedulers can't do it. BMC Control-M can. Learn More! In this Issue How Open Source Powers a Battlestar Galactica-Inspired Flight Simulator Are Open Source Libraries Any More Vulnerable Than Closed Source? Amazon Web Services updates Linux implementation WHITE PAPER: BMC Workload Automation Challenges and Opportunities This Executive Brief discusses IDC's perspective on how enterprise workload management requirements are changing and highlights the ways that workload automation solutions can address these emerging requirements. Learn More! How Open Source Powers a Battlestar Galactica-Inspired Flight Simulator The Viper flight simulator is being built by five high school students, some parents, and mentors from Marin, Oakland, and San Francsico as part of the Young Makers program. The plan is to unveil the project at Maker Faire in May 2012. Read More WEBCAST: HP, Microsoft & Intel Database Consolidation and Building Your Private Cloud Please join guest speaker IDC Analyst Carl Olofson as he discusses Enterprise Data Center challenges and why database consolidation is important and necessary. And hear from HP expert Joe Sullivan, who will discuss the HP Database Consolidation Appliance and how it addresses enterprise industry challenges. Learn more Are Open Source Libraries Any More Vulnerable Than Closed Source? My friend and Network World editor, Ellen Messmer posted an article yesterday about the results of an analysis by Aspect Security of the Central Repository maintained by Sonatype. The study was announced by Aspect and Sonatype yesterday. Read More WEBCAST: BMC Software BMC Control-M - Single Point of Control Demo With BMC Control-M, you schedule and manage everything — down to the very last platform and application — from one simple interface. It's the foundation of workload automation, really — the ability to run application and business processes as one. Siloed job schedulers can't do it. BMC Control-M can. Learn More! Amazon Web Services updates Linux implementation Amazon Web Services has upgraded the Linux image that runs in its cloud to include newer versions of Tomcat, MySQL and Python, while at the same time allowing enterprises to stay on older versions, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 8 reasons why Windows 8 may not be ready for the desktop How does this early version work as a traditional desktop/notebook OS? JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn MOST-READ STORIES Citrix ditches OpenStack for Apache Dell's acquisition a Wyse one, analysts say Cool, weird and unusual security gear 8 reasons why Windows 8 may not be ready for the desktop Meet Cisco/Insieme's recruiter IETF attendees re-engineer their hotel's Wi-Fi network Google's 2012 April Fools' Day pranks 10 funny (?) April Fools' pranks - Web style 'Kelso' as Steve Jobs just doesn't sound right If the best technology won we would all be using OS/2
	Do You Tweet? Follow everything from NetworkWorld.com on Twitter @NetworkWorld. You are currently subscribed to networkworld_linux_open_source_alert as networking.world@gmail.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: bglynn@cxo.com To contact Network World, please send an e-mail to customer_service@nww.com. Copyright (C) 2011 Network World, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. If you want to contact someone directly, send an e-mail to customer_service@nww.com. **