Move from Solaris to RHEL boosts performance for the Chicago Mercantile
Exchange
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| At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the traders betting on future commodity
| price fluctuations aren't the only ones who know what it means to take a
| risk. Five years ago, Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), now part of the CME
| Group, placed a hefty bet: that it could trust Linux with the heart of its
| business, executing billions of contracts a year and processing them faster
| than previously.
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1309889,00.html
Another win for Free software.
Related:
Is Solaris truly open source?
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| ...if you dig into the idea of open source, there still is an
| ideological connotation to its definition, for better or worse.
| It's the idea of community development. Source that is freely
| available is valuable because it allows others to modify and
| improve that software. No one gets paid for their effort, but
| everyone enjoys the fruits of their collective labors. It's not
| that Linus Torvalds is promoting socialism with his Linux kernel,
| but he is not thinking about returns on investment either. He just
| wants a good operating system, just as the Apache developers just
| want rock-solid Web server software.
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http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/44436.html
Not with a bang, but a whimper
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| Roy Fielding[1] finally quit the OpenSolaris community today, see his
| resignation letter[2]. The kettle finally boiled over and the realization
| come to many (but not all) that Sun is publishing their Solaris code for
| marketing purposes, rather than creating an independent, community-led, open
| source project with the ability to make real decisions.
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http://www.ratliff.net/blog/index.php/2008/02/14/not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper/
Sun Unveils New Strategy Aimed At Web 2.0 Developers
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| CEO Schwartz says that the Solaris, Java, virtualization, MySQL combo is best
| for development.
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| [...]
|
| MySQL brings another key set of developers, the users of the integrated open
| source LAMP stack, he said. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP or
| Perl. The "L" doesn't have to be taken literally, he added. Sun can and will
| substitute Solaris for Linux in the stack.
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http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206504258&subSection=Enterprise+Applications
Sun Confirms Inflexability & Community Disregard
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| On Monday OGB Chairman Rich Teer posted Sun's answer (crafted by Mr Bill
| Franklin with the assistance of Mr. Simon Phipps) to the OGB's request for
| clarification regarding the highly controversial decision to name Project
| Indiana "OpenSolaris". The issue is highly mixed, on one hand you have Sun
| Microsystems looking for a way to monetize OpenSolaris, on the other hand
| they are redefining the term "OpenSolaris", around which everything is based,
| without a single regard for the community.
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http://cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=898
Sun bullied, used threats to gain control of open source project, former owner
says
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| Sun used strong-arm tactics and made threats to the owners of an open-source
| directory project to wrestle away control, according to one of the former
| owners and creators of the project.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/112907-sun-opends.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
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