August
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Aug 28, 2006
Open Source Router Cuts Costs by Nearly 87%
Vyatta and Sangoma Technologies announced a deal that will put Vyatta’s Open Flexible Router (OFR) on Sangoma’s WANPIPE PCI cards. Vyatta's OFR is an open source routing code based on the XORP routing project out of the International Computer Sciences Institute (ICSI) at Berkeley. The code includes OSPF, BGP and RIP routing protocols, stateful firewalling and network address translation (NAT). Vyatta has tried to build a development community around OFR much the way Red Hat has done with Linux. read more...
IBM to Employ Open-Source Development Style for Tools
ORLANDO, Fla.—IBM plans to launch a new development scheme patterned after open-source initiatives for one of its upcoming commercial offerings. At the IBM Rational Software Development Conference here on June 6, Lee Nackman, vice president of product development and customer support for IBM Rational, said that IBM will open-source a core portion of its upcoming "Jazz" collaboration platform and then build commercial software on top of that. read more...
Tux for open sew-ers
Tux has gone open source in a different way. The Free Penguin Project provides free GPL sewing patterns and advice so that anyone who meets the hardware requirements can create a fluffy stuffed penguin of their own; specifically, would-be Tux tailors need access to a sewing machine and fabric. read more...
UK's ESR migrates to Linux and OSS
ESR Technology's computer network was based on a combination of Novell NetWare and Microsoft Windows when the company was still a subsidiary of AEA Technology, an environmental and technology consultancy based in the UK. After Coller Capital purchased the risk management company last October, ESR had six months to select, design, and implement a brand new infrastructure that would support more than 100 users all over the world. It decided that Linux was the safest bet. read more...
Red Hat's Fleury: 'Oracle Linux' unlikely
Fresh off an investor tour, Marc Fleury, the general manager of Red Hat's JBoss division, argued that talk of Oracle offering its own Linux distribution is more speculation than reality. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison in two recent interviews made comments that led many people to believe that Oracle would offer its own Linux. An announcement was rumored to be scheduled for LinuxWorld earlier this month but never did. read more...
