Dell and Linux

You have probably heard about the recent Open Source community rave about Dell planning to sell their PC’s with Pre-Installed Ubuntu.
I think that their decision was influenced partially by the large amount of positive input they got on IdeaStorm (The decision was also announced there).
Now Dell have announced a deal with MS/Novell, a discussion at […]

Open Source Support

I came across this Open Source Think Tank 2007 Executive Summary Report.
One of the first things in the report is a discussion about “newly” found acceptance for Open Source software in enterprise organizations. The report mentions that there is a big difference in attitude from the hesitance to consider Open Source solutions just a year […]

Microsoft and Open Source…

Dana Blankenhorn suggests you could have replaced Ray Ozzie (Chief Software Architect at Microsoft)
with a shaved Richard Stallman, questioning the latest moves from Microsoft.

Sharding?

“Shard” is just another word for “segment” or “partition,” but it’s the term of choice within Google - That is the statement noted in the Hibernate Shards documentation.
I like to describe Sharding as physical  partitioning. Unlike “usual” partitioning where the different segments of […]

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