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Open Source Business Conference 2011 - 2 views

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The Computerworld Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) is the premier forum for business and technology leaders looking for an insightful discussion of how open source technology is changing the way we do business today.
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Marc Lijour on 08 Feb 11

The Computerworld Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) is the premier forum for business and technology leaders looking for an insightful discussion of how open source technology is changing the way we do business today. With a rich and deep agenda built around the concept of emerging business models and the best strategies for incorporating the strategies for open source software into growing your business, OSBC makes the argument that every enterprise is, or should be, a data-driven business today. As the IT industry's only forum for discussing how to reap profits from using open source software, OSBC brings together a vibrant group of the industry's top practitioners, venture capitalists, lawyers and thought leaders for two days of in-depth presentations and lively discussions and panels. By being the leading conference for educating top tier executives on the value of the open source market place, OSBC provides the latest in cutting-edge open source thinking. OSBC offers the change to connect with the developers, users and companies behind the most significant open source Big Data technologies, teaching attendees the strategies to making your business more effectively data-driven.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The Computerworld Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) is the premier forum for business and technology leaders looking for an insightful discussion of how open source technology is changing the way we do business today. With a rich and deep agenda built around the concept of emerging business models and the best strategies for incorporating the strategies for open source software into growing your business, OSBC makes the argument that every enterprise is, or should be, a data-driven business today. As the IT industry's only forum for discussing how to reap profits from using open source software, OSBC brings together a vibrant group of the industry's top practitioners, venture capitalists, lawyers and thought leaders for two days of in-depth presentations and lively discussions and panels. By being the leading conference for educating top tier executives on the value of the open source market place, OSBC provides the latest in cutting-edge open source thinking. OSBC offers the change to connect with the developers, users and companies behind the most significant open source Big Data technologies, teaching attendees the strategies to making your business more effectively data-driven.</div>

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BBC News - In graphics: Supercomputing superpowers - 2 views

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The biannual Top 500 supercomputer list has been released. Use this graphic to explore the world's fastest number crunchers or find out more about alternative supercomputer powers .
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yc c on 12 Jun 10

The biannual Top 500 supercomputer list has been released. Use this graphic to explore the world's fastest number crunchers or find out more about alternative supercomputer powers .

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The biannual Top 500 supercomputer list has been released. Use this graphic to explore the world's fastest number crunchers or find out more about alternative supercomputer powers .</div>

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How to Make Wealth - 0 views

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Startups usually involve technology, so much so that the phrase "high-tech startup" is almost redundant. A startup is a small company that takes on a hard technical problem.
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Here is a brief sketch of the economic proposition. If you're a good hacker in your mid twenties, you can get a job paying about $80,000 per year. So on average such a hacker must be able to do at least $80,000 worth of work per year for the company just to break even
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and if you focus you can probably get three times as much done in an hour
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I'm claiming you could be 36 times more productive than you're expected to be in a random corporate job.
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then a smart hacker working very hard without any corporate bullshit to slow him down should be able to do work worth about $3 million a year
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f you want to make a million dollars, you have to endure a million dollars' worth of pain.
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Bill Gates is a smart, determined, and hardworking man, but you need more than that to make as much money as he has. You also need to be very lucky.
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If you want to create wealth, it will help to understand what it is. Wealth is not the same thing as money. [3] Wealth is as old as human history. Far older, in fact; ants have wealth. Money is a comparatively recent invention.
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talking about making money can make it harder to understand how to make money.
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the craftsmen. Their hand-made objects become store-bought ones.
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A programmer can sit down in front of a computer and create wealth. A good piece of software is, in itself, a valuable thing.
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And so it's clearer to programmers that wealth is something that's made, rather than being distributed, like slices of a pie, by some imaginary Daddy
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we had one programmer who was a sort of monster of productivity
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A great programmer, on a roll, could create a million dollars worth of wealth in a couple weeks. A mediocre programmer over the same period will generate zero or even negative wealth (e.g. by introducing bugs).
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The top 5% of programmers probably write 99% of the good software.
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Hackers often donate their work by writing open source software that anyone can use for free. I am much the richer for the operating system FreeBSD, which I'm running on the computer I'm using now, and so is Yahoo, which runs it on all their servers.
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You can't go to your boss and say, I'd like to start working ten times as hard, so will you please pay me ten times as much?
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A programmer, for example, instead of chugging along maintaining and updating an existing piece of software, could write a whole new piece of software, and with it create a new source of revenue.
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All a company is is a group of people working together to do something people want. It's doing something people want that matters, not joining the group
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To get rich you need to get yourself in a situation with two things, measurement and leverage. You need to be in a position where your performance can be measured, or there is no way to get paid more by doing more. And you have to have leverage, in the sense that the decisions you make have a big effect.
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If you're in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get rich, because if there is no danger there is almost certainly no leverage.
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All you need to do is be part of a small group working on a hard problem
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Steve Jobs once said that the success or failure of a startup depends on the first ten employees. I agree
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What is technology? It's technique. It's the way we all do things. And when you discover a new way to do things, its value is multiplied by all the people who use it. It is the proverbial fishing rod, rather than the fish. That's the difference between a startup and a restaurant or a barber shop. You fry eggs or cut hair one customer at a time. Whereas if you solve a technical problem that a lot of people care about, you help everyone who uses your solution. That's leverage
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If there were two features we could add to our software, both equally valuable in proportion to their difficulty, we'd always take the harder one
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I can remember times when we were just exhausted after wrestling all day with some horrible technical problem. And I'd be delighted, because something that was hard for us would be impossible for our competitors
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Start by picking a hard problem, and then at every decision point, take the harder choice.
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You'd think that a company about to buy you would do a lot of research and decide for themselves how valuable your technology was.
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Not at all. What they go by is the number of users you have
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Wealth is what people want, and if people aren't using your software, maybe it's not just because you're bad at marketing. Maybe it's because you haven't made what they want.
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Now we can recognize this as something hackers already know to avoid: premature optimization. Get a version 1.0 out there as soon as you can. Until you have some users to measure, you're optimizing based on guesses.
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In that respect the Cold War teaches the same lesson as World War II and, for that matter, most wars in recent history. Don't let a ruling class of warriors and politicians squash the entrepreneurs
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Let the nerds keep their lunch money, and you rule the world.
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Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz SKT 478 L2 Cache 1 MB RK80546PE0721M | INTEL Processors - 0 views

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Overview * Product Type: Processor * Processor Type: Intel Pentium 4 * CPU Speed: 2.8 GHz * Bus Speed: 533 MHz * Bus/Core Ratio: 21 * Manufacturing Technology: 90 nm * Core Stepping: D0 * L2 Cache Size: 1 MB * L2 Cache Speed: 2.8 GHz * Thermal Design Power: 89W * Thermal Specification: 69.1°C * VID Voltage Range: 1.25V-1.4V * Warranty: 1 Year

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Overview * Product Type: Processor * Processor Type: Intel Pentium 4 * CPU Speed: 2.8 GHz * Bus Speed: 533 MHz * Bus/Core Ratio: 21 * Manufacturing Technology: 90 nm * Core Stepping: D0 * L2 Cache Size: 1 MB * L2 Cache Speed: 2.8 GHz * Thermal Design Power: 89W * Thermal Specification: 69.1°C * VID Voltage Range: 1.25V-1.4V * Warranty: 1 Year</div>

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Linux Is on the Rise For Business - PCWorld Business Center - 1 views

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according to a report released Tuesday by the Linux Foundation in partnership with Yeoman Technology Group. With data from an invited pool of more than 1900 respondents, the survey found that 76 percent of the world's largest organizations plan to add more Linux servers over the next 12 months. By contrast, only 41 percent plan to add Windows servers, while 44 percent say they will be decreasing or maintaining the same number of Windows machines over the next year.
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Large companies are planning to increase their reliance on Linux over the next five years
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Looking out over five years, the difference is even more marked: A full 79 percent plan to add Linux servers over that time, while only 21 percent will add new Windows servers.
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To understand Linux trends among the world's largest companies and government organizations, Yeoman and The Linux Foundation focused in particular on responses from a subset of close to 400 respondents representing organizations with annual revenues of $500 million or more or greater than 500 employees.
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Sixty-six percent of the planned Linux deployments mentioned by respondents are for brand-new applications or services, while 37 percent are migrations from Windows, the survey found.
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"We are seeing more migration at Microsoft's expense than the industry analysis might lead you to believe," McPherson noted.
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Since Linux is free, sales-linked estimates tend to underestimate its adoption considerably.
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this survey involves some sample bias
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the data isn't tied to server sales the way so much industry data is
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a full 60 percent of respondents said they're planning to use Linux for more mission-critical workloads than they have in the past
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Lack of vendor lock-in and openness of the code were other frequently cited drivers
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long-term viability of the platform
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choice of software and hardware
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n cloud contexts, meanwhile, Linux led far and away, with 70 percent naming it as their primary platform, compared with 18 percent citing Windows and 11 citing Unix
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Marc Lijour on 26 Jan 11

according to a report released Tuesday by the Linux Foundation in partnership with Yeoman Technology Group. With data from an invited pool of more than 1900 respondents, the survey found that 76 percent of the world's largest organizations plan to add more Linux servers over the next 12 months. By contrast, only 41 percent plan to add Windows servers, while 44 percent say they will be decreasing or maintaining the same number of Windows machines over the next year.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">according to a report released Tuesday by the Linux Foundation in partnership with Yeoman Technology Group. With data from an invited pool of more than 1900 respondents, the survey found that 76 percent of the world's largest organizations plan to add more Linux servers over the next 12 months. By contrast, only 41 percent plan to add Windows servers, while 44 percent say they will be decreasing or maintaining the same number of Windows machines over the next year.</div>

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Red Hat: 'Yes, we undercut Oracle with hidden Linux patches' * Channel Register - 5 views

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"We made the change, quite honestly, because we are absolutely making a set of steps that make it more difficult for competitors that wish to provide support services on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux," Red Hat chief technology officer Brian Stevens tells The Register, before naming those competitors. "Today, there are two competitors that I'm aware of that go to our customers directly, offering to support RHEL directly for them...Oracle and Novell."
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"The work that we've done should not impede companies from building their own versions of Linux and supporting those for their customers," he says. "All the code we deliver through RHEL is out there. In most cases, the changes that go into RHEL. We already distribute into the upstream kernel. We have an upstream-first policy, where we're developing openly and then later integrating into our tree and then delivering it. So it shouldn't at all impede the community or anybody that's in the business of competing on that."
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Marc Lijour on 06 Mar 11

"We made the change, quite honestly, because we are absolutely making a set of steps that make it more difficult for competitors that wish to provide support services on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux," Red Hat chief technology officer Brian Stevens tells The Register, before naming those competitors. "Today, there are two competitors that I'm aware of that go to our customers directly, offering to support RHEL directly for them...Oracle and Novell."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"We made the change, quite honestly, because we are absolutely making a set of steps that make it more difficult for competitors that wish to provide support services on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux," Red Hat chief technology officer Brian Stevens tells The Register, before naming those competitors. "Today, there are two competitors that I'm aware of that go to our customers directly, offering to support RHEL directly for them...Oracle and Novell."</div>

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How to Select Best Online Cloud Storage Company - 1 views

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Day by day, as the cloud computing technology is getting advanced, people are getting more attracted towards it. In the past few years, a lot of cloud based services have launched in the Industry. Due to the benefits such as flexibility, reliability, accessibility, and security it is much preferred all kind of businesses.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Day by day, as the cloud computing technology is getting advanced, people are getting more attracted towards it. In the past few years, a lot of cloud based services have launched in the Industry. Due to the benefits such as flexibility, reliability, accessibility, and security it is much preferred all kind of businesses.</div>

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