Articles tagged ‘enterprise’

This year’s LinuxWorld in San Francisco highlighted participation from every company in the mainstream IT industry who wants to make it big riding the open source software wave.

The author discusses high-availability clustering with Linux.

The path to the Information Society is paved by the advantages provided by Open Source Software.

Interoperability, localization and support are key for the open source desktop.

Global information services from Silicon Valley to Silicon India.

Searching the Web has become synonymous with surfing the Web.

A decade ago, the Beowulf project revolutionized High Performance Computing (HPC). At that time, the strategy of every high performance computing vendor was to pump up and protect the astronomical prices charged for each gain in perceived performance. Fortunately, Moore’s law works in just the opposite way: greater performance means lower cost. This paradox has everything to do with manufacturers like Intel and AMD being able to make denser and better circuits at cheaper and cheaper costs. It is this commoditization of hardware that drives HPC today.

New technologies push Linux into the enterprise as the community strives to preserve the basics.

For those who are looking for inexpensive automation tools, Linux can provide various point solutions toward a more comprehensive ERP capability. The pieces include a variety of high-quality free and commercial databases, best-of-breed Web services and application server technology, and emerging commercial-quality accounting packages. Even complete ERP systems are beginning to be built in the Linux and Open Source communities.

Linux carries a similar promise for the global software community as the 1849 Gold Rush did for California. For software products and projects, Linux is software gold.