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Plone and Drupal: Different Approaches, Different Results
paul.nowak wrote: Matt, thanks for the comments. I made an error on the version of Plone. It's 2.5 Plone running on Zope 2.9x. In regards to the additional products, we have a skin installed and we have a product that we had custom developed for us that connects to a PostgreSQL database. We've looked at slow PostgreSQL queries causing problems and have not been able to find an issue. We've also tested for the case where the PostgreSQL server is down and have not been able to create an issue. We therefor...
Nov. 4, 2009 04:19 PM EST
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Yahoo Open Sources Traffic Server Code
By Maureen O'Gara
It says Traffic Server enables the session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing and routing of an entire cloud computing stack. It’s supposed to offer fast, reliable and scalable access to cached online content and speed responses to requests for stored ...
Nov. 6, 2009 05:00 PM EST  Reads: 425
Economy Beginning To Accelerate: Cisco CEO
By Maureen O'Gara
Cisco CEO John Chambers, who has turned into something of an economic oracle probably because he is more in command of his catbird seat than most big-time CEOs, said Wednesday when Cisco reported its quarterly results that the economy hit a “clear tipping point” before mid-summer and i...
Nov. 6, 2009 03:45 PM EST  Reads: 276
Likewise Simplifies Upgrade Path for Open Source Authentication Software
By Glenn Rossman
Likewise announced that it is offering three starter packs that combine its Likewise Enterprise software with support and training services. The starter packs are designed to help customers move from its open source software to Likewise Enterprise. Likewise Enterprise makes it easy fo...
Nov. 5, 2009 05:00 PM EST  Reads: 286
Google Open Sources its JavaScript Tools
By Maureen O'Gara
Google Thursday open sourced its Closure JavaScript tools – a compiler, a cross-browser, server-agnostic library and a bunch of precompiled templates – in the name of making web apps easier to build. Recall that Gmail, Google Docs and Google Maps are JavaScript-intensive applications. ...
Nov. 5, 2009 04:00 PM EST  Reads: 612
IBM Betas Test & Dev Cloud
By Maureen O'Gara
It’s called plainly enough IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud and will provide compute and storage as a service with Rational Software Delivery Services, WebSphere middleware and Information Management database thrown in.
Nov. 5, 2009 03:30 PM EST  Reads: 399
4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Starts Today
By Cloud News Desk
A round-up of the wide range of important issues and timely topics due to be discussed by over 130 industry experts at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, opening today at the Santa Clara Convention Center, November 2-4, 2009. From Building Scalable and Exten...
Nov. 2, 2009 08:10 AM EST  Reads: 9,474
LA to Go with Google Apps on Condition . . .
By Maureen O'Gara
The city of Los Angeles has okayed a $7.2 million deal with CSC to rip out a lot of its existing Novell GroupWise e-mail systems and whatnot and replace it with Google Apps provided CSC agrees to pay a pre-set penalty if there’s a security breach. They still need to dicker about that a...
Oct. 31, 2009 11:45 PM EDT  Reads: 745  Replies: 1
Zeus to Manage the Cloud
By Maureen O'Gara
Zeus Technology, the Anglo-American concern whose web server ran 3% of the world’s web sites back before the dot.com bubble burst, third in the race behind Apache and Microsoft, was asking around among CIOs, IT director and senior IT managers at large organizations and came to find out...
Oct. 31, 2009 09:00 AM EDT  Reads: 553
Chrome Sued for Patent Infringement
By Maureen O'Gara
An Israeli company called Red Bend has sued Google’s Chrome browser for patent infringement in the district court in Massachusetts. It says Chrome’s Courgette differential compression algorithm treads on its widgetry. Courgette, which launched in July, sends just partial application up...
Oct. 30, 2009 01:45 PM EDT  Reads: 567
Oracle+MySQL Opponents Take to the Barricades
By Maureen O'Gara
Monty Widenius, the creator of the MySQL open source database – which is apparently all that stands between Oracle and its acquisition of Sun – thinks that Oracle shouldn’t have his baby and that the European Commission – whose investigation into MySQL has put the Oracle-Sun merger in ...
Oct. 29, 2009 05:45 AM EDT  Reads: 1,613
LA Council Insists On Added Security Breach Penalty As It Oks Move to Google’s ‘Cloud’
By Carmen Gonzalez
The Los Angeles City Council voted today to move the city's 30,000 email users to a system provided by Google, but only after a provision that the city be compensated if there is security breach in the data held on Google's servers. Consumer Watchdog had said that the security provisio...
Oct. 27, 2009 07:00 PM EDT  Reads: 418
Google Apps: Not as Cheap as They Look
By Maureen O'Gara
The city of Los Angeles can’t make up its mind whether to trash its clunky Novell system and go with Google Apps for e-mail and office applications, citing costs and necessity. It was supposed to be a showcase account for Google. The decision will now move from LA’s budget and finance ...
Oct. 25, 2009 06:00 AM EDT  Reads: 849
SproutCore Release Candidate 1 Hits the Streets
By Charles Jolley

Last night I merged the final set of changes for the first release candidate of SproutCore 1.0.  I also published a new gem (build 1.0.1008) so you can get the official release quite easily.  Just open your terminal [on Mac or Linux] and type:

sudo gem install sproutcore

Th...

Oct. 25, 2009 03:00 AM EDT  Reads: 574
Carl Icahn Resigns From the Board of Yahoo!
By Liz McMillan
Carl Icahn announced today that he had informed the Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. that he was resigning as a director of Yahoo!. Mr. Icahn told the Board that in his view there was not a need at this time for an activist director at Yahoo! Mr. Icahn indicated that there are a numbe...
Oct. 23, 2009 07:00 PM EDT  Reads: 872
Sun To Cut 3,000 Jobs, Blames EC
By Maureen O'Gara
Sun said late Tuesday that it will be forced to cut 3,000 jobs worldwide over the next 12 months because of “the delay in the closing of the acquisition of the company,” laying the blame squarely at the doorstep of the European Commission and its prolonged investigation into whether Or...
Oct. 21, 2009 07:00 AM EDT  Reads: 935
Google's Data Liberation Front
By Reuven Cohen
In what can be seen as a major win for users of Google's various cloud services, the company has announced a new website called "The Data Liberation Front" dedicated to be the central location for information on how to move your data in ...
Oct. 20, 2009 08:45 AM EDT  Reads: 571
Google Goes on Offense against Office
By Maureen O'Gara
Google is doing something very un-Google. It's stooping to advertise. What started a few months ago with "Go Google" billboards on 101 in Silicon Valley, the West Side Highway in New York, the Mass Pike in Boston and the Ike in Chicago touting Google Apps went international Monday in F...
Oct. 19, 2009 04:30 PM EDT  Reads: 718
Ryan Greives Launches The Social Media Guide on Ulitzer
By Jeremy Geelan
Ryan Greives, Media Relations Specialist for Indianapolis-based BLASTmedia, has launched The Social Media Guide on Ulitzer. His industry knowledge and experience covers everything from consumer Internet companies and gadgets to highly complex enterprise software and hardware technologi...
Oct. 16, 2009 08:45 AM EDT  Reads: 863
Google Voice and Parlay-X
By Mark O'Neill
Google Voice has a useful feature whereby it will call your phone and another number, then link the calls. This is free within the US, and very cheap for international calls (certainly cheaper than dialing out directly from my mobile phone).
Oct. 16, 2009 07:10 AM EDT  Reads: 691
Google Apps Lands its Biggest Fish Yet
By Maureen O'Gara
Rentokil Initial, an odd combination of a modern-day charwoman who in her off-hours is a courier service, exterminator, insurance adjuster, heating and air conditioning installer and water and electrical tester, has gone with Google Apps, expecting to be the largest deployment of its p...
Oct. 14, 2009 05:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,036
Software Should Be Creative
By Treff LaPlante
We spend a lot of time talking to business managers about how their operations run. The perspective that we commonly face is one of "this is how we do it; we are looking for software to do it better." But from a business perspective, that is the wrong approach.
Oct. 12, 2009 06:00 PM EDT  Reads: 1,390
Eric Schmidt: Born to Pay Retail
By Maureen O'Gara
Google CEO Eric Schmidt hails from a culture born to pay retail. Remember Sun paid $2 billion for Cobalt Networks and might as well have lit cigars with the money, a billion for MySQL and $4.1 billion for StorageTek. So it’s no surprise to read on CNET that he thinks he paid a billion ...
Oct. 9, 2009 05:00 PM EDT  Reads: 710  Replies: 1
And for Its Next Trick, IBM Targets Amazon’s S3, Others
By Maureen O'Gara
Having just gone into competition with Google’s Gmail Monday, IBM said Tuesday that it’s going to take on Amazon’s S3 storage cloud and anybody else in the storage cloud business by launching its own Smart Business Storage Cloud along with a so-called Information Archive. As with its d...
Oct. 6, 2009 07:00 PM EDT  Reads: 1,256
IBM Goes After Gmail
By Maureen O'Gara
In a fit of Google-envy, IBM Monday went into competition with Gmail, pitching businesses big and small on LotusLive iNotes, a new cloud-based hybrid e-mail service that starts at three buck a head a month. It claims its cloud-mail is secure and reliable – Gmail has had some problems l...
Oct. 5, 2009 07:45 PM EDT  Reads: 3,054
Google Wave Hits Wider Beta
By Maureen O'Gara
Google Wave, the amorphous open source widgetry that Google has trouble explaining but contends – silly Google – will replace e-mail, the most viral application ever, started moving into a wider test group of some 100,000 users Wednesday ahead of a still wider release in December. It’s...
Oct. 4, 2009 10:00 AM EDT  Reads: 2,130
Cloud Computing Expo: Exclusive Q&A with Yahoo! SVP Cloud Computing
By Jeremy Geelan
"Ultimately, we believe that advancement in cloud computing technology will be driven by open source initiatives where large communities of engineers can collaborate and develop new code for the new applications and demands posed by the cloud model," says Shelton Shugar, SVP Cloud Comp...
Oct. 3, 2009 07:00 PM EDT  Reads: 4,194
Microsoft Open Source Chief Goes to the Cloud
By Maureen O'Gara
Sam Ramji, Microsoft’s open source defector, whose imminent departure from the company became widely known when Microsoft set up its own CodePlex open source foundation a few weeks ago, has turned up at five-year-old cloud start-up Sonoa Systems, where he will head product strategy and...
Oct. 1, 2009 09:30 PM EDT  Reads: 1,399
Deputy CIO of the CIA to Keynote 1st Annual GovIT Expo
By Jeremy Geelan
SYS-CON Events announces that Jill Tummler Singer, Deputy Chief Information Officer at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), will be delivering the opening keynote at the 1st Annual Government Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com) on October 6th in Washington DC. Ms Singer was appoint...
Sep. 28, 2009 08:00 AM EDT  Reads: 5,353
Brad Windecker Launches "Open Source for Small Business" Topic on Ulitzer
Brad Windecker launched today "Open Source for Small Business" topic on Ulitzer. A topic for open source software specific to the small business marketplace. Small and midsize companies can today take advantage of the maturity in open source applications. This topic will collect storie...
Sep. 26, 2009 03:00 PM EDT  Reads: 1,002
Google’s Out Shopping
By Maureen O'Gara
With the worst of the economic downturn abating, Google, which stopped buying up small companies a few months ago ostensibly because prices were too high, is back scouting deals again. Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Reuters TV that he expects to close a small acquisition a month. He desc...
Sep. 25, 2009 08:45 PM EDT  Reads: 638
Cloudy Weather Report
By Maureen O'Gara
Google News went down middle of the day Tuesday for a couple of hours. Google never explained why but said many were affected. Three weeks ago, Gmail went down big time because of a poorly executed server upgrade and now on Thursday users were complaining on Twitter that they couldn’t ...
Sep. 24, 2009 07:00 PM EDT  Reads: 1,087
Apps Store Intel-Style
By Maureen O'Gara
Intel is pushing Atom out of netbooks and into embedded applications like Daimler and BMW infotainment systems, cell phones and other devices in search of what it calls a $15 billion opportunity. It wants its OEMs and other friends to take a page out of Apple's book and create app stor...
Sep. 23, 2009 12:45 PM EDT  Reads: 795
IBM, Microsoft, Others in Lock-Picking Cloud API Push
By Maureen O'Gara
Half the apps on the Internet are written in PHP. That gives Zend Technologies, the PHP house, a stake in the cloud. So it’s rounded up cloud merchants Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, GoGrid and Nirvanix and has gotten them to support its new open source drive to create a so-called Simple A...
Sep. 23, 2009 07:15 AM EDT  Reads: 1,512
Chrome Polish
By Maureen O'Gara
Google’s Chrome browser claims a bit under 3% of the market right now, but Chrome engineering director Linus Upson told Reuters that it expects to be at 5% at least in a year and if it’s not at 10% at least in two years, it’ll be “exceptionally disappointed.” It just released Chrome v3...
Sep. 18, 2009 05:15 PM EDT  Reads: 621
Live Demo of Yahoo! Query Language to be Given at 4th Cloud Computing Expo
By Cloud News Desk
What every developer wants is access and the ability to shape any data across the Internet through one simple language, with out need to learn different APIs. Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) provides just that and its effectiveness will be demonstrated live at SYS-CON's 4th International C...
Sep. 18, 2009 02:00 PM EDT  Reads: 3,739
Data Liberation Front Promises Escape from Google
By Maureen O'Gara
For the last two years Google, which hasn’t exactly been in a position to lecture anybody about the evils of lock-in, has been harboring a small team of counterculture engineers in Chicago that style themselves the Data Liberation Front quietly working to cut the shackles that condemn ...
Sep. 18, 2009 12:30 PM EDT  Reads: 623
Cloud Computing Company Unveils New Dashboard
By Pat Romanski
The new file manager features pop-up menus and an easier and faster navigation structure to make the user experience more intuitive. In addition, Nomadesk's appraised TheftGuard service, which allows users to remotely shred important docs on the Nomadesk drive in the event of theft or ...
Sep. 16, 2009 09:15 AM EDT  Reads: 1,213
Adobe To Spend $1.8 Billion on Omniture
By Maureen O'Gara
Adobe said Tuesday during its earnings call that it’s buying publicly held Utah-based Omniture for ~$1.8 billion cash. It’s not your most instantly intuitive acquisition ever and it’s costing a pretty penny at that. Adobe didn’t explain to its own people where the web researcher fi...
Sep. 16, 2009 08:45 AM EDT  Reads: 1,471
Internet Enabled Industrial Controller: Orchid Technologies
By Julie Lavallee
Hundreds of on-campus laundry facilities nationwide were waiting. Internet-enabled laundry control and monitoring services to thousands of college students might have to wait yet another semester. Orchid was called in to design, build, and test a new controller—in record time! Laundrom...
Sep. 14, 2009 04:06 PM EDT  Reads: 266
Challenger Mobile Joins the Google Android Movement
By Open Web Developer News Desk
Challenger Mobile, the white label mobile VoIP technology company, has announced the launch during the fall of its ground-breaking platform for Google's Android mobile operating system. Challenger Mobile will allow mobile operators, wireless ISPs and related service providers to now de...
Sep. 9, 2009 03:30 PM EDT  Reads: 826

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