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Winter Corporation Survey Results Show that Oracle is the Only Database Vendor to Produce Leading Customer Results on Linux, UNIX and Windows Platforms

With the latest release of his real time kernel patches [story], Ingo Molnar [interview] announced a new feature, "a complete rework of the high-resolution timers framework, from Thomas Gleixner, called 'ktimers'." Ingo explains that the end-effect of the new timer framework is a "much more deterministic HRT engine." He goes on to explain how this works:

"Under the ktimer framework the HR (and posix) timers live in a separate domain, have their own (per-CPU) rbtree to stay scalable and deterministic even with a high number of timers. Another positive effect of the introduction of separate ktimers is that kernel/timer.c is now using preemptible locks again, removing the cascade() worst-case latency. The cleanup factor is high as well: the ktimer framework slashes 1300+ lines off the HRT code. See kernel/ktimer.c for details."

Yahoo! on Wednesday announced the start of a new beta version of its Yahoo! Mail service. The new beta is getting into the hands of a limited group of users in the United States now; Yahoo! plans to broaden the beta to Yahoo! Mail users worldwide in the coming months. Yahoo! bills the changes to Yahoo! Mail as the most significant enhancement to its service since it debuted in 1997. Yahoo! Mail provides Yahoo! users with free Web-based e-mail access.

Federal agency announces it will make its Web site compatible with non-IE browsers. Meanwhile, Microsoft is also accommodating alternatives to Internet Explorer at some sites.

The government's policy of open source software (OSS) preference that excludes commercial software from consideration may also exclude 85 percent of the information technology (IT) channel business activity, according to a report. The report by the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC), citing the European software market, said the initial annual loss in business opportunity was estimated to be around US$49 billion. "Any decline in government spending would have ripple effects on the economy that might be two to three times greater than the initial direct effect," said ISC in the report which was undertaken in collaboration with Nathan Associates Inc, an international economic consulting firm.

An invitation to share your experiences as a Linux consultant for customers who may not know what that means.

Axel's main priority will be to improve communication between the multitude of volunteer-run localisation teams and the core Mozilla project management and decision makers. He will represent the interests of the localisation teams in relevant Mozilla project management and release planning meetings and will try to bring the overall Mozilla project and the localisation efforts closer together.

"It took only about three hours and 30 minutes to develop the exploit"

Recent stories about open source technology in government raises the question of whether CIOs of municipalities are serious about moving to Linux and open source technology, or if they are just using the threat of such a switch as a way to either get Microsoft to lower pricing on its software, or to force the dominant desktop software vendor to add new features?

REALbasic 2005 for Linux is powerful and easy-to-use and it is helping to bring new software to the Linux platform, because it's similar to Visual Basic, for the first time, the more than three million Visual Basic developers around the world can leverage their skills to create software for Linux

The Linux operating system continues to increase in popularity. This growth has created a greater demand for qualified and trained technicians. CBT Nuggets has produced a series of training videos focussing on the Linux operating system and the Linux Professional Instute's intermediate level certification.

MSDN announced last week that it had tweaked its subscriber download site in order to make it compatible with both Firefox and Opera. There are some issues, such as extra work needed in installing the File Transfer Manager, however developers are working on a new version of the FTM that should correct final problems.

Businesses should switch from Windows to Linux desktops because Linux's technology is superior, according to Jon Walker, CTO of Versora. There are plenty of other reasons to make the switch, said Walker. Linux is a more secure operating system, extends the life of personal computers, erases vendor lock-in and carries lower license and support fees. In this tip, based on Walker's migration workshops, we present his reasons why businesses should move to Linux desktop and good practices for planning that migration.

What really scares Microsoft is innovation, not copy-cat desktops. If you want to see the kind of visceral hatred fear inspires, check out Ballmer's antics over Google. Or, for a more subdued example, read Doug Barney's put down of the Unix business architecture (big servers, smart display desktops) in a recent RedmondMag Editorial.

rPath’s focus is customized Linux applications based on an open -source project known as Conary. According to Information Week, rPath will offer “a new way to build and maintain Linux without the overhead” required with other solutions such as Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux.

Andrew Johnston, senior technology architect at the AIB Group told Electric News.Net that the bank was utilising the replacement of aging branch systems based on Windows 3.1 and IBM OS/2 to implement new functionality offered by a Linux setup.

Passguard (http://www.passguard.com), an advanced Login Manager toolbar for Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape browsers. Passguard is a bookmark, password management and login assistant that offers enhanced security, bookmark search, speedy site retrieval and automatic logins.

Microsoft has been especially critical of a legal framework that causes it to spend $100 million a year defending itself against 35 to 40 lawsuits at any one time. But what spurred the company to team up with Smith was a jury that awarded one-man software company Eolas Technologies $565 million in damages--a decision that has been partially reversed--in a patent dispute over Microsoft's Internet Explorer. "We really feel that there's a litigation lottery," said David Kaefer, Microsoft's director of intellectual-property licensing. "People roll the die and hope that their number comes up big."

Sun is struggling to come to terms with open source.

Public and Commercial Organizations Find Linux a Secure and Cost-Effective Alternative to Windows