Oracle offers clustering for Linux
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| Oracle is breaking out the Linux clustering component of its Oracle RAC (Real
| Application Clusters) package and offering it to customers of its Unbreakable
| Linux support program for Linux users.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/26/oracle-linux_1.html
Recent:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that. Perhaps Google on that layer, although frankly speaking,
| most of what we have there is upside. We're small and they're big. (With)
| most things, we're big and the other guy is small, so we have more to lose
| than gain. In this case, we have more to gain than to lose with Google.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Related:
University of Colorado to Use SiCortex Cluster for Space Studies
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| SiCortex, the emerging leader in compact, low power multicore Linux® systems,
| announced today that the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)
| at the University of Colorado has purchased and installed a SiCortex SC648
| half-teraflop system as an integral part of its research into solar
| influences, planetary physics, atmospheric science and space physics.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080318005526&newsLang=en
Linux in more than 90% of top supercomputers
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| Other operating systems, such as AIX (4.8%), Solaris (0.4%) and Mac OS X
| (0.4%) make the list, but Linux is alone at the top, where it is used in 459
| systems or 91.8% of the top supercomputer systems.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/15/linux-in-more-than-90-of-top-supercomputers/
http://tinyurl.com/2rponk
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