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the fewest job cuts in a year since 2000

according to global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, which on Monday reported that employers announced plans to cut only 46,825 IT jobs during 2010--a full 73 percent fewer than the 174,629 technology job cuts in 2009.

Forrester Research predicts that 2011 IT spending will increase 7.5 percent in the U.S. and 7.1 percent globally,

It’s truly great to see a Qt-based device like the WeTab, with support from Intel and the open source community, go from design to market in just little over 6 months of MeeGo launching.

The standard Linux storage stack wasn’t designed for write-heavy big data workloads, nor is it well-suited to modern hardware: large, slow SATA disks, SSDs or many cores. Castle, an open-source project, is a ground-up overhauling of RAID, file systems, and the POSIX interface. It is released under the GPL and runs as part of the Linux kernel. Our target is 1 million random inserts per second to disk on a $1,000 commodity box, and we’re nearly there. Castle is also the core of the Acunu Data Platform, which delivers up to 100x higher performance for applications written for Cassandra and other tools.

100,000s of servers, 640-million users, and over a 1 billion visits a months

13th most popular Web site on the globe, or the fourth if you count all the international Google sites as one

“Yahoo has its own Linux distribution, YLinux, targeted for out specific needs. It’s based on Red Hat’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)