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General Policy And Mission Statements For"The Linux And Unix Menagerie" Web Log.

07/18/2008  II
Relevance: 8.02
Probably an extremely boring statement of our blog's mission and various in-place policies ;)
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Solid: Boosting MySQL for Mission-Critical Users

02/13/2007  II
Relevance: 6.33
MySQL is poised to attract keen attention from F1000s running mission-critical apps. A meaner, faster version of MySQL, dubbed solidDB for MySQL, is now in general availability (GA). Co-built by MySQL AB and Solid Information Technology, it cuts response times, boosts scalability, and processed 2x more transactions than Oracle InnoDB, say benchmarks.
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Poll Finds CIOs Considering Linux for mission-critical Use

01/05/2007  IIII
Relevance: 6.23
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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ScienceLogic appliance leverages open source for network management

04/20/2007  I
Relevance: 6.08
ScienceLogic launched three years ago with a mission to bring to market an IT appliance that could monitor every aspect of a company's network infrastructure. CEO David Link calls it"dial tone service quality," a term that has come to mean high reliability and easy accessibility. To accomplish that mission, Link knew that open source software was the key, both internally and in ScienceLogic's flagship product, the EM7.
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Proprietary vs. OSS Software: The Debate Continues

08/14/2007  IIII
Relevance: 5.84
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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Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance Powers Mission-Critical Applications with Red Hat Solutions

12/18/2007  I
Relevance: 5.55
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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YoYoNation pledges allegiance to open source

01/05/2007  I
Relevance: 5.18
In 2005, two former Merrill Lynch techies, young and living large in New York City, left their jobs to start a company based on their favorite pastime: playing with yo-yos. YoYoNation is more than just an online retailer -- it is a community for all things yo-yo, with a mission to make New York the"center of the yo-yo universe." This particular universe runs on open source software.
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Interview with Brian Stevens, CTO, Red Hat

08/26/2006  IIIII
Relevance: 5.14
Is there a better way to develop enterprise Linux software? The CTO of Red Hat thinks there is and he's on a mission to figure it out.
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Gobuntu Changes Going Back Into Ubuntu

06/13/2008  I
Relevance: 5.13
The release of Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 1 is running a few days behind schedule, but an interesting announcement has come out of the Canonical camp this morning. Gobuntu is an official Ubuntu-based distribution that's funded by Canonical and its mission is to ship a distribution composed entirely of software packages that are approved by the Free Software Foundation...
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Red Hat CEO says committed to open source

01/06/2008  III
Relevance: 5.01
Red Hat's new chief executive said on Friday that the company will continue to pursue a business model under which it makes its software available at no cost and makes money selling services to businesses."We are a mission-based company. Democratizing information is a social good," Chief Executive James Whitehurst said in an interview with Reuters."We will be open source. We will be the leader in open source."
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