Wednesday, April 01, 2009

AT&T to resell Cisco telepresence gear to feds; Cisco supports Open Cloud Manifesto

Cisco rolls out low-end TelePresence system

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Cisco supports Open Cloud Manifesto, while Rolling Stones remain holdouts Cisco is supporting the Open Cloud Manifesto (whose ultimate goal is to make the cloud as open and valuable as possible), however, the Rolling Stones remain holdouts, still insisting that everyone get off of their cloud.

Cisco rolls out low-end ($89K) telepresence system Cisco is announcing at VoiceCon Orlando a lower cost telepresence system designed for deployment in existing teleconference rooms without upgrading them to accommodate top-of-the-line telepresence gear.
More from the blogosphere: Cisco rolls out low-end TelePresence system At less than a third of the price of a full-blown telepresence system, the CTS 1300 can be deployed in existing telepresence rooms without the need to upgrade to top-of-the-line gear.

A tale of the death of Hammerhead Blogger Brad Reese offers the inside story on the death of router startup Hammerhead and why he thinks this is bad news for the network industry. With $110 million in funding down the drain, will VCs be shy about investing in routing startups that try to take on the big guys like Cisco? Reese thinks so.

Guide to Videoconferencing Services: Part I "Once the economy begins to recover, videoconferencing will see meteoric growth," BT's Videoconferencing Unit general manager Jeff Prestel told us in a recent interview. In the mean time growth is respectable, experience quality is improving, systems are easier to use, and high-end "immersive" solutions are creating a lot of buzz--although not making major inroads just yet. Collaborating with our colleague John Bartlett, we learned this and more during recent interviews with eight carriers to create this four-part "Guide to Videoconferencing Services."

Venture capitalists not willing to bet against Cisco Cisco Subnet blogger Brad Reese explains why VC losses from Hammerhead Systems could be the nail in the coffin for other start-ups competing with Cisco.

Cisco on the trail of federal stimulus money Hoping for its share of the stimulus pie, Cisco has assembled a team to identify local and state government projects that will be funded with stimulus funds.

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App to no good A look at the top 10 iPhone apps that could get you into trouble.		CEO payday breakdown A detailed account of how much tech chiefs made in 2008.

Giving Linux That 'XP' Factor; Highly anticipated open-source releases coming in '09

Microsoft turning into an open source company?

Giving Linux That 'XP' Factor

By Keir Thomas
Everybody has a version of Windows that's their favorite. What version it is depends a lot on your age. Some of my older colleagues swore blind that Windows 95 was the pinnacle of computer science, at least when it was released. I remember hearing a certain phrase over and over again in the late 90s: "Microsoft have got it just right with 95." Read full story

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Highly anticipated open-source releases coming in '09 When big companies release new software, they launch it with lots of hoopla: press tours, technical conferences, free T-shirts. Open-source projects, even the well-known ones, generally release their major new versions with a lot less fanfare. The FOSS (free and open-source software) community is often too busy coding and testing to bother with marketing, even when the new "point release" of the software is really remarkable.

Fedora 11 beta posted with new security, developer features The Fedora Project released a beta of the next version of its free Linux OS with new security, desktop and developer features that provide a glimpse of the direction Red Hat could take with its enterprise Linux distribution.

Ubuntu 9.04 Beta: Quick Look So far there have been six alpha releases of the forthcoming Ubuntu 9.04, due for final release next month, and late yesterday the one and only beta release was made available for download. From this point forward there's a release candidate in mid-April, before the final release is made on the 23rd.

Microsoft turning into an open source company? Microsoft Subnet Blogger Mitchell Ashley questions Microsoft's actions these days. The company is embarking on two new strategies: be the Web platform and cozying up to open source, from Linux right up to and including open source apps. This is the Microsoft equivalent of Apple moving to an Intel hardware platform.

ParaScale cloud storage software hits general availability Storage start-up ParaScale is heading into general availability with software that aggregates disk storage on standard Linux servers to create pools of storage that can be used by Web-based services providers and to build private clouds.

Novell releases SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Waltham, Mass.-based Novell Inc.'s release of SUSE Linux Enterprise(SLE)11 has a number of enhancements designed to help companies, during dire economic times, to cost-effectively run mission-critical applications in a mixed IT environment, regardless of the hardware or virtual platform, or cloud computing infrastructure.

TomTom caves, will pay Microsoft license fees; may force more open source patents Microsoft Subnet reports that GPS navigation device vendor TomTom has agreed to settle its lawsuit with Microsoft by paying Microsoft license fees. Financial terms were not disclosed. The patents at the center of Microsoft's infringement claims involved technologies found in a version of the Linux OS that TomTom's portable devices run on.

10 operating systems the world left behind You're not really supposed to love an operating system. It's like your car's hydraulic system, your digestive system or the global financial system. It's supposed to do its job -- and not get in your way while you're doing yours.

Firefox fix due next week after attack is published Online attack code has been released targeting a critical, unpatched flaw in the Firefox browser.

Lenovo restructures as emerging market focus grows Lenovo will create developed and emerging market units in the place of its regional business divisions as it moves its focus back to emerging economies, the company said Thursday.

MailArchiva: Open Source Email Archiving for Exchange MailArchiva is a great open source solution to help you to deal with email archiving in your organization as well as helping you to make sure you are in compliance if this is important to your organization, says Microsoft Subnet blogger Ron Barrett.

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Cisco offers Microsoft Exchange replacement: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols LinuxWorld.com author Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, who recently wrote "Can Open Source replace Microsoft Exchange?" explains the technical and business rationale behind Cisco's entry into the e-mail and groupware market. Postpath promises to be not just easier to license, but less stressful on the hardware budget. (19:59)

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