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ALSO CALLED: FSF and GNU Project
DEFINITION: The Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded in 1983 along with its demonstration GNU project. Richard Stallman, an MIT professor, had worked as a student on projects where software was freely exchanged without copying or modifying stipulations. Why, he asked himself and others, should  … 
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Mainframe Performance Management: A New Twist
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: In this document Wayne Kernochan, President of Infrastructure Associates will talk about performance management software specifically as it relates to the mainframe.
Posted: 06 Oct 2008 | Published: 03 Oct 2008
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TOPICS:  Hardware | Linux | Security | Software | UNIX

IBM Enterprise Content Management and System Storage Solutions: Working Together
sponsored by IBM
BOOK: An Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system is designed to contain unstructured information such as files, images, and drawings.
Posted: 06 Oct 2008 | Published: 03 Oct 2008
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Overcoming Mobile Fragmentation: Building Applications for Multiple Operating Systems
sponsored by Recursion Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses some of the challenges and trade-offs developers must make and highlights one solution to overcoming them.
Posted: 03 Oct 2008 | Published: 03 Oct 2008
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TOPICS:  BREW | CORBA | IIOP | Java | Linux | Sensors | SOAP | Software | XML

Storage and Virtualization: Options for Smaller Environments
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This document is based on a Dell/TechTarget webcast entitled "Storage and Virtualization: Options for Smaller Environments."
Posted: 03 Oct 2008 | Published: 03 Oct 2008
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Indentifying Performance Bottlenecks: Tips and Tools to Help You Say It's Not Your Fault
sponsored by Storage Decisions
WHITE PAPER: This document focuses on Operating System and Open Source tools that can help diagnose and test, programs that will help to aggregate all system data in one place, and the advantages of high volume managers.
Posted: 01 Oct 2008 | Published: 30 Sep 2008
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IBM System x iDataPlex - Enabling Web 2.0 with Internet-Scale Solutions
sponsored by IBM and Intel
PRODUCT LITERATURE: In this document Charles King of Pund-IT, Inc. takes a look at how the IBM System x iDataPlex offers enterprises a unique approach to take advantage of emerging market opportunities including Web 2.0.
Posted: 01 Oct 2008 | Published: 30 Sep 2008
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Extending Open Source Tools for More Effective Software Delivery
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: IBM Rational software can offer the best of both worlds through integration with a broad range of open source tools and plug-ins, while maintaining an overarching platform that manages the entire development lifecycle.
Posted: 17 Sep 2008 | Published: 17 Sep 2008
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The Ideal Blade Solution to Replace Your Rack Server: IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express Blade
sponsored by IBM
PRODUCT LITERATURE: Read this article to learn how to simplify your traditional UNIX, IBM i and Linux rack-mount and tower setup with the IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express blade and BladeCenter S chassis. Discover how it delivers a complete integrated business system.
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | Published: 11 Sep 2008
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Value Proposition for IBM Power Systems as Database Server in Midsize Companies - Cost Comparisons for Linux
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This ITG report shows the advantages of the IBM Power platform for Linux database serving in mid-sized companies. It will discuss the use of IBM Power servers for core database serving and give a number of reasons to consider the Power platform.
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | Published: 11 Sep 2008
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Vyatta Community Edition 4 - Open-Source Routing and Security
sponsored by Vyatta Inc
TRIAL SOFTWARE: Vyatta delivers complete, ready-to-deploy, open-source networking solutions that make it possible for anyone to own an enterprise-class router/firewall/VPN for a fraction of the cost of traditional closed-source, proprietary products.
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2008
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Audit Tracking & SOX Compliance
sponsored by RevSoft
WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper to learn how using Audit Tracking will give you greater SOX compliance. Rev Scheduler has built in audit facility and which allows for greater SOX compliance as all job definitions are audited and tracked.
Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | Published: 09 Sep 2008
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All about Open Source and Virtualization with xVM
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WEBCAST: In this webcast the speaker Vijay Sarathy Sr. Manager of xVM talks about virtualization of xVM servers and the benefits of server virtualization.
Posted: 09 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Demo of the xVM Ops Center Managing Live Data Center Out in Denver
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WEBCAST: In this webcast the speaker Steve Wilson VP of xVM shows a live demo of the xVM Ops Center software and managing a set of servers in data center out in Denver.
Posted: 09 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Anonymous Proxy: A Growing Trend in Internet Abuse, and How to Defeat It
sponsored by Bloxx, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The Internet is a marvelous tool, but it can also be a tremendous drain and a threat to our children. Tru-View Technology maximizes the positives and eliminates the negatives so that organizations can meet the challenges of an 8+ billion-page Internet.
Posted: 09 Sep 2008 | Published: 09 Sep 2008
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Mobius Partners: Enterprise Solutions
sponsored by Mobius Partners
CASE STUDY: The University of Houston was facing unprecedented demands for power from its High Performance Computing Lab and to overcome this problem they used HP's Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) 6000 Series for SAN and C-Class Chassis.
Posted: 09 Sep 2008 | Published: 09 Sep 2008
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TOPICS:  Hardware | Linux | SAN | VARs | Windows

Sun™ xVM Virtualization Portfolio: Enabling Dynamic IT from the Desktop to the Datacenter
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
DATA SHEET: The Sun™ xVM virtualization portfolio enables you to simplify the management of your heterogeneous environment across the entire stack, from the desktop to the datacenter.
Posted: 08 Sep 2008 | Published: 08 Sep 2008
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Virtualized Environments: Access Control Reality
sponsored by FoxT
WEBCAST: Check out this webcast and learn how your company can effectively manage access control and user provisioning across physical and virtual servers.
Posted: 05 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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MKS X/Server v 8.5
sponsored by MKS, Inc.
TRIAL SOFTWARE: Interoperability is a crucial topic that many IT professionals face in day-to-day environments specifically with Windows, Linux and UNIX. This demonstrated product is the ideal solution.
Posted: 01 Sep 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2008
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How to: UniCluster & Amazon EC2
sponsored by Univa UD
WHITE PAPER: This document summarizes experiences with deploying Univa UD UniCluster Express within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). UniCluster Express is a cluster tool-stack capable of deploying fully configured and integrated set of technologies.
Posted: 14 Aug 2008 | Published: 14 Aug 2008
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Sunny Days with Cloud Computing
sponsored by Stoneware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discusses "Cloud Computing" which is a new catch phrase or buzzword for an approach to simplifying an organization's IT environment through the use of virtualization and web technologies.
Posted: 30 Jul 2008 | Published: 16 May 2008
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Progress Enterprise Service Bus v7.6 Workbench Edition
sponsored by Progress Software
SOFTWARE DEMO: The Sonic ESB is robust SOA infrastructure software that integrates large, physically distributed deployments - with complex service orchestration, operational data management, and seamless interoperability with third-party relational data sources...
Posted: 24 Jul 2008 | Published: 24 Jul 2008
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Intel Xeon Processor 7300 Series - Visual Demo
sponsored by Intel Corporation
PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Discover how Intel Xeon processor 7300 series offer innovations in data traffic optimization.
Posted: 24 Jul 2008 | Published: 24 Jul 2008
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Integrating Data in the Information System: An Open Source Approach
sponsored by Talend
WHITE PAPER: Data integration guarantees the consistency of data in the overall information system. This white paper describes how Open Source helps solving the interoperability challenge.
Posted: 24 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Driving Business Agility via a Software Supply Chain
sponsored by Black Duck Software
WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this white paper is to lay out software development "supply chain" strategies, to nurture community culture, and to discuss techniques to improve code usage as software creation evolves toward greater complexity.
Posted: 22 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Can You Quantify the Results of Migrating to Linux?
sponsored by Novell Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator compares the total cost of ownership of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server vs. Solaris. You'll be able to enter you organizations own information and discover the true cost differences.
Posted: 22 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION DEFINITION (continued): …  software users be prohibited from copying it for friends, looking at the source code and copying it, and redistributing the results? Taking this idea to the group level, Stallman and others created the FSF and set out to demonstrate that an entire operating system could be developed and shared freely. The result was the Unix-like GNU, which, in August 1996, became complete by adding a kernel.

The "free" does not mean at no charge. The Free Software Foundation … 
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