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whitepaper Delivering Productivity With Choice2007-03-01 Oracle
  One of the more extensive examples of Oracle's commitment to open source involves Eclipse, an open source community whose projects focus on providing a vendor-neutral open development platform and application framework. "Oracle is committed to its leading Java and service-oriented architecture development environment, Oracle JDeveloper. At the same time, the paper is also committed to offering developers productivity with choice. For developers who choose to use Eclipse, Oracle is committed to delivering the same productivity that customers using Oracle JDeveloper experience," explains Omar Tazi, Oracle's chief open source evangelist. And the Eclipse Foundation recognizes this commitment and its impact. Oracle's long-standing involvement with Eclipse absolutely benefits the Eclipse community.

Tags: Linux - Open Source, Application Development		   
whitepaper A Practical FPGA-Based Framework for Novel CMP Research2007-02-20 Association for Computing Machinery
  Chip-MultiProcessors (CMPs) are quickly gaining momentum in all segments of computing. However, the practical success of CMPs strongly depends on addressing the difficulty of multithreaded application development. To address this challenge, it is necessary to co-develop new CMP architecture with novel programming models. Currently, architecture research relies on software simulators which are too slow to facilitate interesting experiments with CMP software without using small datasets or significantly reducing the level of detail in the simulated models. An alternative to simulation is to exploit the rich capabilities of modern FPGAs to create FPGA-based platforms for novel CMP research. This paper presents ATLAS, the first prototype for CMPs with hardware support for Transactional Memory (TM), a technology aiming to simplify parallel programming.

Tags: Linux Server OS, Application Development		   
whitepaper Linux Distribution Testing and Quality Assurance: Current Developments of the EDOS Project and Open Questions2007-02-12 Mandriva Conectiva
  This paper describes the developments done within the EDOS project regarding Linux distribution testing and quality assurance process. It will also point out remaining open questions that could be subjects for further research and which could bring significant advances for Linux distribution developers. As the number of testing units (the distribution packages) is usually large (more than 10,000 packages for most of the distributions), the complexity of the testing task is huge and leads to either reduce system quality by accepting non-tested packages or delay final releases and increase overall system development cost.

Tags: Linux Server OS		   
whitepaper Implementation of IEEE 802.15.4 Protocol Stack for Linux2007-02-06 University of North Carolina
  The IEEE 802.15.4 is a new wireless standard introduced for low power, low cost wireless communication with moderate data rates. It is intended to be used in embedded applications for home/office automation, industrial control and sensor networks. In such applications there is generally a need for a master controller, which will be responsible for data acquisition and communicate with other systems. Linux is gaining popularity as an embedded operating system. The developed software stack is easily portable to other hardware platforms and operating systems. The system is intended to be useful on research of various aspects of IEEE 802.15.4 standard.

Tags: Linux Server OS		   
whitepaper Bringing Open Source Virtualization to the Financial Services Market2007-02-05 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
  No industry puts a higher premium on the speed, security, and reliability of IT infrastructures than financial services. And the keys to improving performance in each of those categories lie in the data center. Open source operating systems such as the SUSE Linux Enterprise operating system are letting companies add business-specific features to their applications for a real competitive advantage. Server virtualization technologies from XenSource are optimizing the utilization of every server. And Second-Generation AMD Opteron processors with AMD Virtualization technology (AMD-V) are providing the hardware platform for both, helping companies squeeze the maximum performance and efficiency out of each server in the data center.

Tags: Linux - Open Source, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Enforcing Security Enhanced Linux Policies in a Networked Policy Domain2007-02-04 Tresys Technology
  Significant progress toward general acceptance of applying mandatory access control to systems has been made recently. Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux), in particular, has been enabled by default in some Linux distributions for several years. However, current SELinux deployments only effectively control a single system. Inter-system and remote resource access control capabilities are starting to appear in SELinux, but extending policy management capabilities to cover these networked systems remains an open problem. This paper discusses issues that must be addressed to support security policies distributed across a network, including policy development changes needed to be able to express a coherent security policy for a network of systems, managing the distribution of a multi-system policy, and synchronizing policy updates, and compares options to provide this support.

Tags: Security Management, Linux Server OS		   
whitepaper A Blueprint for Better Management From the Desktop to the Data Center2007-02-01 Novell
  The authors plan to increase their support of the open source development community by creating an open systems management architecture that encourages innovation with respect to the higher-order problems of distributed systems management. They invite the readers to think big about code that manages storage for thousands of Virtual Machines (VMs) - one of many exciting challenges ahead. This paper is written for those whose job it is to manage information technology. They are faced with the difficult task of figuring out what tools are available - commercially or via open source - and whether, when and how to use them, while keeping track of licensing and integration and providing determinism with respect to the business.

Tags: Linux - Open Source, Data Center		   
whitepaper Reducing Risk Through Linux2007-02-01 Novell
  Software decisions are risky. They result in major multi-year resource commitments, both financial and human, and can shape the future of the enterprise. This is particularly true regarding foundational Operating System (OS) software for desktops and servers. Even if software were free, CIOs wouldn't be employed for long if the OS software they chose were not reliable, functionally rich, secure and above all else, cost-effective. For CIOs, the decision to commit to open source software isn't about ideology; it is very often about minimizing risk.

Tags: Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.		   
whitepaper White paper: The Future of Software Delivery2007-02-01 IBM
  This paper provides a brief description of past software delivery issues that have contributed to the current environment; identification of key trends that drive our industry today; and an outline of IBM Rational's future software delivery strategy.

Tags: Linux - Open Source, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Achieving High Availability on a Linux Two-Node Cluster Using Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture2007-02-01 LSI Logic
  As more system capabilities are introduced, system administrators find it increasingly difficult to integrate the features for a unified High Availability (HA) solution meeting their business requirements. In the absence of a clear and cohesive solution, information technology managers might rely on hiring consultants to determine the appropriate HA system configuration. Unfortunately the approach of hiring consultants may result in compromises on meeting the unique business availability needs. High availability technologies focus on increasing the availability of application systems. High availability includes redundancies, error detection, and rapid recovery strategies for both software and hardware.

Tags: Linux - Open Source, Best Practices		   


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