Posts Tagged ‘Linux Operating System’

French social security now run on PostgreSQL and Red Hat Linux

Sunday, November 28th, 2010

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 CNAF and says that the PostgreSQL system is currently running nearly one billion SQL queries each day on Red Hat Linux servers.

Discussing the move, CNAF’s Deputy Director of Information Systems Marc Pavie said, “Our choice of PostgreSQL was not just driven by the fact that this software is open-source,” adding that, “This is a technically rich DBMS, that included all the features we need. It has levels of performance and reliability that meet our production goals”. Pavie goes on to note that it also allows his organisation to save costs on licences for a proprietary DBMS and to reduce its overall license budget. The move to the new systems took a total of 18 months to complete – 168 databases were migrated, representing 4 TB of data.

Source:h-online.com

Red Hat Enables Expanded Deployment Flexibility and Application Portability with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

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 43.50, +0.56, +1.30%) , the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced ecosystem support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 from leading Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners. With its simple certification model that allows partners to deploy applications in any environment — physical, virtual and cloud — with a single certification, Red Hat enables its ISV partners to deliver flexible and portable solutions to their customers.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 offers software developers and vendors a consistent and attractive platform on which to develop, test and qualify their products, reducing costs and time to market. Additionally, Red Hat’s long-established commitment to providing stable and standardized Application Programming and Binary Interfaces (API/ABI) ensures that, once certified, applications will be able to run for the full life of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. This commitment, covering designated user-mode and kernel-mode interfaces, is the most extensive available in the fast-moving open source ecosystem . Consequently, updates and enhancements can be smoothly incorporated into a deployed system without impacting applications. This enables customers to deploy the latest fixes and new features quickly and easily, and to enjoy the highest levels of performance and security.

“Red Hat’s extensive ecosystem of certified software and hardware is a key benefit that we offer to customers, enabling flexibility and, most importantly, choice for their mission-critical IT architectures,” said Jim Totton, vice president, Platform Business Unit at Red Hat. “Our API/ABI commitment sets us apart from other operating environments in that it makes Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its certified ecosystem suitable for long-term, stable deployment — and does it for physical, virtual and cloud computing environments.”
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Big business go big on Linux

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

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 report shows that Linux is continuing to grab market share from Unix and Windows, and it’s doing it with mission-critical applications.

Admittedly, the 1,900 people surveyed were both from The Linux Foundation’s Enterprise End User Council as well as other companies and government organizations, but I feel the results still were valid. And, unlike similar surveys, sponsored by proprietary software companies where you have to dig to find out who paid for the research and who’s actually being surveyed, the Linux Foundation comes right out and tells you ”

In particular, the Foundation and its partner in the survey, engineering and management firm Yeoman Technology Group, focused on larger enterprise companies and government organizations — those with $500 million or more a year in revenues or greater than 500 employees.

These businesses are moving to Linux far faster than they are to Windows or Unix. Given that we already knew of their interest in Linux, that’s not too surprising. What was surprising was that conventional wisdom is that Unix users are the most likely to switch to Linux. While it’s true that Unix users are migrating to Linux, it turns out that, by a few percentage points, Windows users at 36.6% are more likely to be heading to Linux than Unix, 31.4%.
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Top 10 most popular Linux server distributions

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

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 are the top 10 most popular Linux server distributions, perhaps we have included few which you probably have not heard of.

In the following list there is no particular ranking , We have written the list based on the main criteria: ease of use, with commercial support and have the data center reliability.

Ubuntu: Linux-related products, as almost the entire list, based on Debian to Ubuntu very special and unique. From its easy installation to excellent hardware recovery, to the level of world-class commercial support, regardless of where on the one hand, Ubuntu is beyond all other versions, and let them catch up.

Red Hat: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) from the shouting of “almost no Linux company can do” to the current search for the data center has become a major force storage shelf areas. Linux is the darling of large enterprises around the world, Red Hat’s spirit of innovation and continuous support for it won lot many repeated customers.

SUSE: Novell’s SUSE is known for its stability and ease of maintenance . In addition, it is designed for those who do not have time and patience to wait for a long troubleshooting telephone customers to support Novell’s all-weather rapid response. Moreover, Novell’s consulting team will help you a to chieve your service level agreements.

Mandriva: The structure is reasonable to incredible Linux distributions received good response from France ,Europe and South America w. As its website claims, it is a worldwide Linux vendors. The name and structure from Mandriva Mandrake Linux and Connectiva Linux.

Xandros: If you prefer Microsoft-related Linux version, then Xandros would be a good choice. Aside rumors did not say, Xandros and Microsoft did during the so-called insiders in technology cooperation. This means that they are to compete at the same time also give cooperation. If you want a unique perspective on the depth of understanding, please visit the website of Xandros.

Slackware: Although it is not having the relationship with the commercial version of big, but it is provided with several support has been paid to maintain relations of cooperation. As one of the earliest available version, Slackware has a broad and loyal fan base. It’s developers regularly release new versions.

Debian: Debian do not think I listed here are pieces of strange things. Indeed, Debian offers no formal business support, but you can consult it in the world to connect Debian consultants page. The mother than other Linux versions such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Vyatta is concerned, Debian is more developed sub-version.

Vyatta: PC operating system compared to, Vyatta is more in the family of router and firewall. But if you want a commercial driver version to support these applications, Vyatta can guarantee your communications needs.
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Free software isn’t freeware: why Linux and FOSS have a higher standard

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

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 in cost with free as in freedom. Here’s what FOSS really means.

The survey was commissioned by Microsoft Australia and determined 45% of Australians believed software piracy was acceptable for their own use. It would be reasonable to think these viewpoints are shared across the world in similar numbers.

Microsoft has its own set of problems to deal with as a result of the survey findings. They don’t want their software to be used by those who have not paid for it. Can they in good conscience withhold security updates from unlicensed users? Do they increase the price thus making licensed users be unfairly taxed to cover the lost revenue? There is no end of ramifications that the Redmond giant will be considering.

On the other side of the fence, those of us who work to advocate the use of free and open source software, such as the alternate operating system Linux, find that one argument in our arsenal is greatly weakened.

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