IBM ships 5.2GHz chip, its fastest yet

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IBM’s newest chip for mainframes boasts one of the highest speed ratings to date and will go into Big Blue’s fastest mainframe computers.
IBM, no stranger to cutting-edge chip designs, will use the new 5.2GHz z196 processor in mainframes targeted at businesses managing huge workloads, such as large banks and retailers.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/ibm-ships-5-2ghz-chip-its-fastest-yet/

Microsoft: ‘We love open source’

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Everyone in the Linux world remembers Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s famous comment that Linux is a “cancer” that threatened Microsoft’s intellectual property.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/microsoft-we-love-opensource/

Google’s 6th Summer of Code wraps up

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Google has officially ended its sixth annual Google Sumer of Code (GSoC) event.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/googles-6th-summer-of-code-wraps-up

DcData is hiring !

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DcData is looking for a talented young developer with PHP and MYSQL experience to join it’s dynamic Linux team !
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/dcdata-is-hiring/

Eight free open source books

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Want to learn more about open source? Download some books for free.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/eight-free-open-source-book

Android 3.0: what you need to know

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Even though most Android users are still waiting for Android 2.2, details about the next version are starting to emerge. https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/android-3

Inside Facebook’s Open Source Infrastructure

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Facebook connects its 500 million users using an array of open source software to enable social networking as well as data intelligence.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/inside-facebooks-open-source-infrastructure/

50 Open Source Replacements for Popular Financial Software

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Whether you just want to balance your checkbook or you need to track the finances of a large global corporation, you can find open source software to do the job. For our list of open source financial tools, we cast a wide net and included applications related to enterprise resource management, point-of-sale and even employee time tracking. Not to mention … Read More

SPECvirt released, IBM has leading results on RHEL5.5 KVM

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The SPEC benchmark for RHEL5.5 with KVM was released yesterday. http://www.spec.org/virt_sc2010/press/release.html “The non-profit Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) has released SPECvirt_sc2010, the first vendor-neutral benchmark to measure the performance of datacenter servers used for virtualized server consolidation.” Only result left standing at launch: http://www.spec.org/virt_sc2010/results/res2010q3/ IBM x3950M3 + RHEL 5.5/KVM = 1169@72 SPECvirt_sc2010@VMs

Well over half of the most reliable hosting companies run on Linux

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I like to follow statistics on market share of browsers, os, web server and so on. They have to be taken with a big grain of salt for sure but they do give us a look at trends more or less accurate (or so I think). https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/well-over-half-of-the-most-reliable-hosting-companies-run-on-linux/

App Inventor for Android

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App Inventor is a new tool in Google Labs that makes it easy for anyone to create mobile applications for Android-powered devices. https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/app-inventor-for-android

Open@Adobe: the new portal

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Adobe in partnership with SourceForge announced the opening of Open@Adobe.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/openadobe-the-new-portal/