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<b>Linux Planet:</B> "Take a small box. Add a 64-bit CPU, two SATA hard drives, a Compact Flash slot, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and quiet operation, and what do you have? The VIA M'SERV mini-server. Could this be the perfect Linux box?"
<b>Wild Webmink:</b> "Today is my last day of employment at Sun (well, it became Oracle on March 1st in the UK but you know what I mean). I am a few months short of my 10th anniversary there..."
<b>Opensource.com:</b> "Plaintiffs attempted to exploit this inexperience by arguing that open source software involved behavior that was, if not downright illegal, at least ethically dubious. They promoted the fallacy that open source distributors unfairly take the property of others and thereby unfairly profit."
New design guides and services are being aimed at service providers looking for faster and less-expensive ways to help enterprise customers build and manage both private and public cloud computing environments.
<b>The Register:</b> "Dell has told a Linux-loving Reg reader that he can't receive a refund on the copy of Windows 7 that shipped with his new Dell netbook because it was bundled with the machine for "free""
<b>Desktop Linux Reviews:</b> "The .iso file of Puppy Linux 5.0 weighs in at an incredibly petite 128 MB. It's much, much smaller than all of the usual desktop heavyweight distros. But don't let its small size fool you, Puppy Linux 5.0 is anything but an also-ran in terms of functionality and usability."
<b>The Open Road:</b> "Novell, once the king of the software world, is like that. Over the years it has built up a broad portfolio of software (with associated revenue streams) in repeated attempts to regain its glory days. That portfolio now stifles its ability to focus on other areas with the most promise."
<b>Ghacks:</b> "KPlato is one of those tools that could easily get overlooked – but certainly shouldn’t. KPlato is project management tool that offers more features that many similar tools costing significantly more money"
The Anti-Phishing Working Group says one highly sophisticated and well-organized group of cyber thieves was responsible for a huge spike in phishing attacks late last year.
<b>Database Journal:</b> "One of the key elements that helps to enable open source software applications to gain broader enterprise usage is the availability of commercial support options. In the case of the open source MongoDB NoSQL database, that commercial support is now coming from project backer 10gen."
<b>Free Software Magazine:</b> "There seems to be no respite from the predations of Microsoft FUD and the machinations of Big Business. Just when it seemed safe to come out of the closet and admit to being a user of free and open source software without being accused of being a Communist, it appears that we are now criminals too"
Software giant rushes out Security Advisory to warn customers about code for a zero-day vulnerability in SharePoint collaboration server that's making the rounds on the Web.
New cloud-based payments platform provides payments processing environment that allows SMBs to accept payments from Web, phone, terminal, mobile and scanner.