Willow Garage sets its open-source software free to attract software developers and help make robots commonplace, but detractors say giving the software away is bad for business. Originally posted at News – Cutting Edge
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Red Hat and Dell announced a new partnership today that could mark a further expansion of open source software use in the enterprise.
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Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide by Wale Soyinka is a hands-on manual for IT staffers who must dance with Windows and Linux. It is a practical guide for network admins who deploy and maintain Linux and other free and open source software. In this Sixth Edition opus, Soyinka provides an extensive update on the latest Linux distros.
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Open source software distributor Red Hat has released the source code for its OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, allowing developers to run the platform on multiple cloud fabrics, including OpenStack.
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As the heavyweights of the IT industry swarm on the OpenStack cloud OS and the OpenFlow networking protocol , there’s a renewed push to avoid vendor lock-in and to also keep the cloud innovative, and the giants of open source software are stepping up their efforts.
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