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Exploring LotusLive Symphony
Today at its Lotusphere 2011 event in Orlando, IBM announced tech preview of LotusLive Symphony, a Web-based office app duo to extend its Lotus Symphony productivity suite. I reviewed the desktop-bound edition of Symphony a few months back, and Andrew Garcia took on the LotusLive online collaboration service. It’s interesting to see IBM add a…
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Handles Workloads Physical and Virtual
The latest Linux-based OS from Red Hat offers a strong foundation for hosting virtual workloads, complete with distinctive capabilities such as security features rooted in SE Linux. Read my full review at eweek.com.
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Ubuntu One Personal Cloud Service Does Windows
The beta release of the Windows client for Canonical’s Ubuntu One service is off to a solid start, but work remains if it’s to overtake Dropbox. Read my full review at eweek.com.
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Convirt 2.0 Enterprise Brings VMware-Style Management to Linux Virtualization Hosts
Convirture’s vCenter workalike builds on the virtualization foundation offered by Linux server operating systems such as those from Red Hat and Ubuntu, with an easy-to-use Web-based management interface and separate open source and enterprise product options. Read my full review at eweek.com.
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Fedora’s NOTABUG Bug Gives Linux Users a “You’re Holding it Wrong” Moment of Their Own
About four years ago, I wrote a blog post (since lost, apparently, to the sands of blog platform migration) entitled “What Is Fedora’s Prime Directive?” At issue, more or less, was whether it was appropriate for the Fedora project to push an Xorg modification that stood to deliver benefits to users of open source graphics…
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Should Enterprise Turn its Back to the Mac?
Lately, I’ve had Mac on the brain—a state that’s stemmed in parts from P. J. Connolly’s coverage of Microsoft’s Office 2011 for the Mac, from Apple’s recent “Back to the Mac” event at its Cupertino headquarters, and from Apple’s disclosure that the increasingly consumer-oriented company plans to drop its most enterprise-oriented product, the XServe. In…
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Lotus Symphony 3.0 Vies to Eclipse OpenOffice.org as Microsoft Office Challenger
IBM’s Eclipse-flavored spin of the OpenOffice.org productivity suite undergoes a major update under the covers, moving up from the 1.x version on which it was originally based to sync up with version 3.x of the open-source project. Read my full review at eweek.com.
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Red Hat’s Fedora 14 Boasts Updated Development Tools, New Virtualization Technology
Fedora 14, the latest release of Red Hat’s fast-moving, community-supported Linux distribution, hit the Internet earlier this month bearing its typical crop of updated open-source software applications, with a particular focus on updated developer tools, such as the latest versions of the Eclipse and Netbeans Integrated Development Environments. Read my full review at eweek.com.
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New Life for OpenOffice.org
From an IT columnist perspective, Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems is a gift that keeps on giving. As the enterprise software giant works its way through digesting Sun’s many hardware platforms, software products, intellectual property holdings, and open source communities, there’s no shortage of fresh topics to cover. Last week, another such topic presented itself,…
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Ubuntu Linux Desktop Builds on App Store, Cloud Service Strengths
Ubuntu 10.10, code-named Maverick Meerkat, brings a number of software updates and an overhauled user interface for its netbook edition. Read my full review at eweek.com.
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