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Tweet French social security now run on PostgreSQL and Red Hat Linux According to a report from the Open Source Observatory and Repository for European public administrations (OSOR), France’s social security system, the Caisse Nationale d’Allocations Familiales (CNAF), is now using the open source PostgreSQL database management system (DBMS). The IT firm Bull is assisting [...]

Tweet Red Hat Enables Expanded Deployment Flexibility and Application Portability with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Compatibility Commitment Allows Extensive Partner Ecosystem to Certify Once with the Ability to Deploy across a Broad Range of Hardware Architectures, in Virtualized Environments or Cloud Deployments SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 10, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Red Hat, Inc. (RHT [...]

Tweet Big business go big on Linux Linux is continuing to play a larger and larger role in big business, but it’s always nice to see cold, hard proof that this is true. The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating Linux’s growth, published “Linux Adoption Trends: A Survey of Enterprise End Users.” This [...]

Tweet Top 10 most popular Linux server distributions Top 10 Linux server distributions are listed here Everyone knows that many data center servers are running Linux, this can save a lot of license fees and maintenance costs. There are numerous Linux distributions now available and the problem is how to chose the best ? Here [...]

Tweet Free software isn’t freeware: why Linux and FOSS have a higher standard Microsoft’s recent survey proclaimed nearly half the population believe it is ok to use pirated software for personal use. This diminishes the argument by Linux advocates that you can use their operating system without any cost. Yet, you can’t confuse free as [...]