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451 CAOS Links 2008.12.19
Matthew Aslett, December 19, 2008 @ 11:38 am ETRed Hat increases its service levels. Linux Foundation appoints Ted Ts’o CTO. Sun delivers VirtualBox update. Novell cancels BrainShare. BBC enables iPlayer for Linux. And more.
Note: This is the last 451 CAOS Links post of 2008. We’ll be back with a bumper holiday special on January 2. Happy holidays!
Official announcements
Red Hat Increases Service Levels and Reduces Costs for Customers with Extended Update Support Red Hat
Linux Foundation Appoints Ted Ts’o to Position of Chief Technology Officer Linux Foundation
Sun Microsystems Extends Virtualization Leadership With New Open Source xVM VirtualBox Sun Microsystems
Novell BrainShare, a note from John Dragoon Novell
Sun Microsystems Leads International Consortium and Wins Grant for Research and Development Project on Technology Accessibility
Sun Microsystems
Adobe AIR 1.5 Now Available for Linux Adobe (Pdf)
BBC Unveils BBC iPlayer Desktop on Adobe AIR Adobe (Pdf)
Open Source Authentication Provider Offers Free Advanced Management Feature with Service Plan Likewise Software
Enomaly Appoints Enterprise Software Veteran Stephen Pollack to Its Board of Advisors Enomaly
Red Hat Announces availability of Hibernate Search 3.1 community project on JBoss.org Red Hat
Digium Announces Sharp Rise in Asterisk Downloads in 2008 Digium
Sourcefire Announces EMEA Channel Expansion Sourcefire
CohesiveFT Partners With Virtual Iron to Automate Enterprise Deployment Virtual Iron
XAware releases XAware 5.2 XAware
News articles
Adobe learns lessons of open-source Flex Gavin Clarke, The Register
What vendors really mean by ‘open source’ Mark Taylor, ZDnet UK/Sirius
Terracotta Doesn’t Want to Kill Your Database, Just Maim It Stacey Higginbotham , GigaOM
Neuros offer cash incentives to open-source LINK coders Chris Davies, SlashGear
Blogs
What Oracle stands to gain from open source Matt Asay, Cnet
Announcing Percona XtraDB Storage Engine: a Drop-in Replacement for Standard InnoDB Vadim Tkachenko, Percona
My advice to the database division at Sun Lukas Smith
Scaling memcached at Facebook Paul Saab, Facebook
Facebook shows self-interest may trump licensing Savio Rodrigues, InfoWorld
Why We Don’t Have “Per Incident” Support Tarus Balog
Vudu Reveals Open-Source RIA Platform, But is it Enough to Survive Heavy Competition? Jose Fermoso, Wired
Free Software Foundation’s Richard Stallman Says Don’t Call It ‘Open Source’ Alexander Wolfe, InformationWeek
Just in case anyone needed reminding.
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