IBM tones down Power6 for small firms
VNUnet - The PowerVM line will include conventional and blade servers, and can support up to 160 virtual machine partitions running Linux, AIX Unix and i5/OS. Virtualisation will be managed by IBM’s Advanced Power software, which will be renamed PowerVM. The

Microsoft Office document dependencies keep desktop Linux niche
Computerworld Australia - IT managers considering the future of their organization’s desktops need to be wary of the amount of dependence workers have on Microsoft Office documents — which cause the most lock-in, according to one consultant. Speaking at this year’s linux

Nokia Deals Google A Trolltech-Sized Blow
BusinessWeek - Until recently, Nokia s software efforts have been perceived as the opposite of open: closed. Sure, the world s largest cell-phone maker has participated in open-source mobile Linux projects like remote sensing. It s also released a few Linux

Cluster Resources Releases Final Beta of Escalante and Announces
Forbes - Cluster Resources, Inc. announced today the finalization of the name Moab Cluster Builder for the product code named “Escalante” and the release of the final Beta version of the full HPC-stack deployment solution based on Novell’s SUSE Linux

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