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Poll Finds CIOs Considering Linux for mission-critical Use

01/05/2007  
Relevance: 12.73
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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Proprietary vs. OSS Software: The Debate Continues

08/14/2007  
Relevance: 11.91
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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Solid: Boosting MySQL for Mission-Critical Users

02/13/2007  
Relevance: 11.65
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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Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance Powers Mission-Critical Applications with Red Hat Solutions

12/18/2007  
Relevance: 11.32
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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General Policy And Mission Statements For"The Linux And Unix Menagerie" Web Log.

07/18/2008  
Relevance: 8.03
Probably an extremely boring statement of our blog's mission and various in-place policies ;)
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Continuent: Continuent Ships New uni/cluster for PostgreSQL

09/11/2006  
Relevance: 7.70
Continuent uni/cluster Solution Provides Enterprises Running PostgreSQL 7.4, 8.0 and 8.1 with Advanced Database Replication, Load-Balancing and High Availability for Mission-Critical Applications
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Clever IT use slashes carbon dioxide output

05/14/2007  
Relevance: 7.52
Switching off your computer at the end of day saves about 75 percent of the electricity it uses which could reduce the amount of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by more than 500kg.[This advice is obviously for people and businesses that do not have mission critical software running and I am not sold on his statistics either. - Scott]
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Open Source Databases: Shallow But Widespread

03/31/2008  
Relevance: 7.29
Back in November of 2005, when polled on application areas that they would be reluctant to trust to open source, the following group of individuals - nearly to a person - pointed to mission critical databases. What's changed since November of 2005? Little.
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Review: Stratus ftServer 4300

12/18/2006  
Relevance: 7.14
Lots of companies sell Linux servers, but how many promise 99.999% uptime? Not very many, but Stratus Technologies sells systems that offer the kind of fault tolerance that will handle mission-critical applications and leave admins with peace of mind. I had a chance to test out one of the company's ftServer 4300 systems, and it's an impressive system.
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Linux wins big in financial trading

05/16/2008  
Relevance: 7.08
Red Hat announced that announced that a European branch of the the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has implemented its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat Network. NYSE Euronext is using RHEL for key components of its"mission-critical," high-speed financial trading environments, Red Hat said.
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