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Poll Finds CIOs Considering Linux for mission-critical Use

01/05/2007  
Relevance: 6.49
Nearly half of all enterprises will be running mission-critical business applications on Linux in five years' time. That's according to survey of IT directors, VPs and CIOs carried out by Saugatuck Research, which questioned 133 businesses worldwide. The company predicts a steep rise: only 18 percent of businesses will be using Linux in business-critical roles by the end of 2007.
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Critical Week for Canonical and Ubuntu Linux

07/21/2008  
Relevance: 6.32
Canonical CEO and Ubuntu Linux backer Mark Shuttleworth will step into the spotlight July 22, when he keynotes OSCON (Open Source Convention) in Portland, Oregon. It will be a critical moment for Shuttleworth and the Ubuntu movement.Here's why.
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Firefox update fixes four critical flaws

09/18/2006  
Relevance: 6.30
Increasingly popular web browser Mozilla Firefox has released its latest version, which corrects seven security bugs, including four critical vulnerabilities.
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Proprietary vs. OSS Software: The Debate Continues

08/14/2007  
Relevance: 6.07
Proprietary code powers the world banks, networks, voting machines and other critical applications that we regularly interact with. But the real question is where mission critical applications like this can be done with open source code, as many open source advocates would like to see happen. There are concerns regarding the security of allowing open source applications into the mission critical fields, such as voting and banking, while others believe that with certain implementations, it could be done securely.
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Preemptible RCU

09/12/2007  
Relevance: 6.06
"This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side critical sections to be preempted,"Paul McKenney said in a posting to the Linux Kernel mailing list. He described theRCU code contained in his 9 part patchset,"it uses a set of counter pairs to keep track of the read-side critical sections and flips them when all tasks exit read-side critical section." Ingo Molnar responded very favorably to the patch,"cool! Now after 2 years of development and testing I think this is one of the most mature patchsets on lkml - so i'd like to see this designated for potential upstream inclusion. I.e. everyone who can see some bug, please holler now."
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MIT fixes critical Kerberos 5 flaws

04/05/2007  
Relevance: 6.05
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has fixed several critical Kerberos 5 flaws attackers could exploit to cause a denial of service, bypass security restrictions and hijack targeted machines.
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Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance Powers Mission-Critical Applications with Red Hat Solutions

12/18/2007  
Relevance: 5.77
Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance has selected Red Hat solutions to power the organization's mission-critical applications. The Ministry selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux for reliability and heightened performance, and is utilizing the solution as the main platform for many of its critical applications, including its"Service Personale Tesoro" (SPT) application, which runs on one of the most popular Italian government websites.
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Almost half of users will move to Linux for critical apps in 4 years

01/09/2007  
Relevance: 5.60
A survey of 133 IT executives by Saugatuck Research found that while only 18% were using Linux in critical server deployments presently, almost half these executive said they’ll have their top apps migrating to, or running full steam on, the open source platform in the next four years.
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Red Hat's $107 million virtualization gambit

09/05/2008  
Relevance: 5.56
Red Hat is taking aim at every other virtualization vendor - be it Citrix, VMware or Microsoft - with this buy. The argument is simple: The OS is critical and the OS is what Red Hat is all about."You may not know this but most virtualization solutions today use components developed by Red Hat for their critical functions," Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens said on a conference call."These competitors are highly dependent on Red Hat for feature development and hardware enablement - no one is better equipped to carry open source leadership forward."
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Adobe security updates plug critical holes

11/10/2008  
Relevance: 5.55
Adobe has issued updates for some of its older software to address critical security vulnerabilities. The updates are aimed at users of older systems that are unable to run the latest versions of Flash and Acrobat.
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