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It's Friday and time for 5 Links for Developers and IT Pros, the "It-finally-feels-like-Spring edition." This week we look at rolling your own servers and what every open source developer should know about copyrights.
See my full list of links and commentary on the Ness Software Engineering Services blog.
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Oracle reported a modest loss in its most recent quarterly earnings report, but it could be a sign of a more fundamental underlying problem as the company faces pressure from cheaper cloud and open source alternatives.
Read my full commenatry on my TechTarget View from Above blog.
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It's Friday and that means it's time for 5 Links for Developers and IT Pros. This week we look at hacking the hackers and 5 reasons why the Ubuntu Linux mobile OS might just succeed.
See all the links and commentary on the Ness Software Engineering Services blog.
Netflix offers another sophisticated cloud management tool to open source. This time it's Asgard, which you can use to deploy massive code projects to Amazon Web Services.
Read my full commentary on the Real User Monitorng blog.
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It's the first Friday of summer and it's hot, hot, hot where I am. Today we share 5 hot links for developers and IT pros. We talk about Linux, Microsoft Surface and hiring an IT consultant.
Check my links and commentary on the Ness Software Engineering Services blog.
Photo by Ron Miller. Feel free to share with attribution.
When Netflix teamed with Internet Server maker NGINX to design the open source servers for its content delivery network (CDN), it turned out to be a good match for all concerned -- including ISPs who got low-maintenance, highly efficient servers and users who should get smoother streaming of Netflix content.
Read my full post on the Real User Monitoring blog.
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Netflix announced it was launching its own Content Delivery Network (CDN) this week and it was open sourcing the hardware design and software. That makes it doubly interesting and could help ISPs ease the burden of Netflix traffic across their systems.
Read my full post the Real User Monitoring blog.
Photo by Matt Perreault on Flickr. Used under Creative Commons License.
Oracle Headquarters Redwood Shores (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Even Oracle might not have known what it had when it brought Google to trial, but when the trial began to turn around the idea of copyrighting APIs, it couldn't have gone better for an old-school enterprise software company with a lot to lose if the cloud and open source continue to take over IT.
Read my full commentary on my TechTarget View from Above blog.
Unix (Photo credit: saturn ♄)
iOS devices might be seen as toys in some IT circles, but a new tool from OpenText that lets you run Unix applications might change that perception.
Read my full commentary on the Real User Monitoring blog.
