Canonical (previous CloudAve coverage), the commercial company behind Ubuntu Linux Distro, yesterday announced that they are ending the ShipIT program. ShipIT was a hugely successful marketing attempt by Canonical where they shipped Ubuntu Linux to any place in the world for free. In fact, I would even claim that this program is partly responsible for [...]
Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel: A Clean Break With Redhat?
September 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
As a part of Oracle Open World 2010, Oracle made some interesting announcements that is stirring up the tech circles. The first announcement is Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, which are cloudwashed high end Non Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) servers. This is basically Oracle’s attempt to swim with the cloud computing wave. After trying to dismiss [...]
Ubuntu Is Ready For A Multi-Touch Future
August 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
As more and more touch based devices flood the market, open source community is looking for support to such devices in the Linux distros. Ubuntu is almost ready to take on the proliferation of such devices in their upcoming Ubuntu 10.10.10 (Maverick Meercat Release) in October of this year. In a mail sent to Multi-Touch [...]
Ubuntu To Join Android And iOS In The Tablet Market
June 10, 2010 By 1 Comment
According to InfoWorld Canonical is preparing a version of the Ubuntu OS for tablet computers as the company looks to extend its presence in the mobile space, a company executive said. Tablets with the Ubuntu OS could become available late in winter 2011, said Chris Kenyon, Canonical’s vice president of OEM services. The OS will [...]
Red Hat Takes Another Step Towards Cloud Computing
April 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Redhat, the poster child of open source and maker of most popular Linux distribution in the enterprise market, took another step into the cloudy future. Redhat recently released version 5.5 of their popular Enterprise Linux distribution. They followed it up with an announcement focused mainly on the hybrid nature of the enterprise cloud adoption in [...]
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