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White Papers
Enabling Growth Through Business Model Innovation
Apr 2011
As organizations seek to grow beyond their current markets and activities, executives look beyond the existing business model to expand their business. This paper looks at most common areas of...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
WinBioinfTools: Bioinformatics Tools for Windows High Performance Computing Server 2008
May 2009
Open source bioinformatics tools running under MS Windows are rare to find, and those running under Windows HPC cluster are almost non-existing. This is despite the fact that the Windows is the...
Provided by Nile University
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White Papers
Getting More From Your Multicore: Exploiting OpenMP From an Open Source Numerical Scripting Language
Jun 2007
The authors introduce SLIRP, a module generator for the S-Lang numerical scripting language, with a focus on its vectorization capabilities. They demonstrate how both SLIRP and S-Lang were easily...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Web Server Benchmark Application WiiBench Using Erlang/OTP R11 and Fedora-Core Linux 5.0
Aug 2007
As the web grows and the amount of traffics on the web server increase, problems related to performance begin to appear. Some of the problems, such as the number of users that can access the...
Provided by Cornell University
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White Papers
Open Standards and Open Source: Enabling Interoperability
Jan 2011
Interoperability is a major requirement for industries and governments in a society that increasingly moves towards global collaboration and integration. Open standards built on the principles of...
Provided by University of Porto
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Some Observations on Open Source Software Development on Software Engineering Perspectives
Dec 2010
Several argument has been made that open source software development process some times also referred as Free and Open Source Software Development (FOSSD) violates the traditional software...
Provided by Rani Durgawati Vishwavidyalya
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White Papers
VMM-Independent Graphics Acceleration
Jun 2007
This paper describes VMGL, a cross-platform OpenGL virtualization solution that is both VMM and GPU independent. VMGL allows applications executing within Virtual Machines (VMs) to leverage...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
File System Virtual Appliances: Third-Party File System Implementations Without the Pain
May 2008
File System Virtual Appliances (FSVAs) address a major headache faced by third-party FS developers: OS version compatibility. By packaging their FS implementation in a VM, separate from the VM...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
TCO for Open Source Social Publishing
May 2011
More and more, Open Source presents not only a cost alternative, but instead an innovation alternative, to proprietary enterprise software products. This paper compares the total cost of...
Provided by Acquia
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White Papers
Quantitative Study of Open Source Immigration
May 2007
Open source software is built by teams of volunteers. Each project has a core team of developers who have the authority to commit changes to the repository; this team is the elite core of the...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Latent Social Structure in Open Source Projects
Nov 2008
Commercial software project managers design project organizational structure carefully, mindful of available skills, division of labour, geographical boundaries, etc. These organizational...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
The Promises and Perils of Mining Git
Apr 2009
The authors are now witnessing the rapid growth of Decentralized Source Code Management (DSCM) systems, in which every developer has her own repository. DSCMs facilitate a style of collaboration...
Provided by University of Victoria
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White Papers
Validity of Network Analyses in Open Source Projects
Mar 2010
Social network methods are frequently used to analyze networks derived from Open Source Project communication and collaboration data. Such studies typically discover patterns in the information...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Talk and Work: a Preliminary Report
May 2008
Developers in Open Source Software (OSS) projects communicate using mailing lists. By convention, the mailing lists are used only for task-related discussions, so they are primarily concerned with...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Complex Instruction and Software Library Mapping for Embedded Software Using Symbolic Algebra
Jan 2011
With growing demand for embedded multimedia applications, time to market of embedded software has become a crucial issue. As a result, embedded software designers often use libraries that have...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
libDAI: A Free and Open Source C++ Library for Discrete Approximate Inference in Graphical Models
Aug 2010
This paper describes the software package libDAI, a free & open source C++ library that provides implementations of various exact and approximate inference methods for graphical models with...
Provided by Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
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Case Studies
Novell Case Study: Hines Corporation
Apr 2007
The Hines Corporation is a privately held management company in Muskegon, Michigan, that oversees eight manufacturing facilities in the Midwest and Texas along with a distributorship in New York....
Provided by Novell
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Whitepapers
Unique Express makes inroads to a smarter freight solution
May 2011
When Unique Express, an Australian transportation company, needed a computer-based transport solution that would encompass everything from client self-service and fleet management to financials...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
A Review of Issue Analysis in Open Source Software Development
Feb 2011
A software development methodology was initiated from the concept of sharing the source code. In 1998 it was named as open source software development. It is a complete software development...
Provided by JATIT
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Case Studies
Software Testing for an Operational Risk Management Solution
Apr 2007
A US based ISV providing Operational Risk Management Solutions to large enterprises. The company wanted a competent offshore Software Testing partner who can work in sync with their development...
Provided by Cordiant Technologies
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White Papers
Parallel NFS Block Layout Module for Linux
Feb 2008
This position statement presents CITI's Linux prototype of NFSv4.1 pNFS client block layout module and reviews the implementation approach. CITI's prototype implements the IETF draft specification...
Provided by University of Michigan
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White Papers
The ARM Fast Context Switch Extension for Linux
Sep 2009
The ARMv5 CPUs are inexpensive, low power, 32 bit processors widely used in embedded systems. Because of these processors' cache implementation, using memory protection on these systems incurs a...
Provided by OMICRON
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White Papers
Analysis of Inherent Randomness of the Linux Kernel
Sep 2009
While analyzing latency data from real-time Linux variants the authors found that there are distinct parts to the system jitter - those that can be attributed to software constructs and those that...
Provided by Lanzhou University of Technology
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White Papers
Myths and Realities of Real-Time Linux Software Systems
Sep 2009
While this paper presents an overview of the issues and concerns commonly experienced by deterministic computer systems, it is not intended to be a substitute for a detailed analysis of one...
Provided by VersaLogic
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White Papers
Getting Linux Into a Train HVAC (Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning)
Sep 2009
Open source and free software is great constantly growing technology pool consisting of millions of tools, rapidly developing technologies and a solution for nearly every technical problem. Some...
Provided by Opentech Systems
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White Papers
Investigating Latency Effects of the Linux Real-Time Preemption Patches (PREEMPT RT) on AMD's GEODE LX Platform
Sep 2009
When it comes to embedded systems, real-time characteristics like low-latency, deterministic behavior and guaranteed calculations are of utmost importance and there has been an increasing market...
Provided by VersaLogic
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White Papers
Flash File Systems Hackers Hut / Linux Kernel
Aug 2008
Using flash memory in mass storage devices is an upcoming trend. With high performance, low energy consumption and shock proof properties, flash memory is an appealing alternative to the large...
Provided by University of Twente
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White Papers
Secure Thyself: Securing Individual Peers in Collaborative Peer-to-Peer Environments
May 2008
P2P networks and the computations that they enable hold great potential in designing the next generation of very-large scale distributed applications. However, the P2P phenomenon has largely left...
Provided by National Institute of Technology Hamirpur
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White Papers
OpenUAT: The Open Source Ubiquitous Authentication Toolkit
Feb 2009
Authenticating spontaneous interactions between devices and users is challenging for several reasons: the wireless (and therefore invisible) nature of device communication, the heterogeneous...
Provided by ETH Zurich
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White Papers
Context Switch Overheads for Linux on ARM Platforms
Jun 2007
Context switching imposes a performance penalty on threads in a multitasking environment. The source of this penalty is both direct overhead due to running the context switch code and indirect...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
The Challenge of Heterogeneously Licensed Systems in Open Architecture Software Ecosystems
Apr 2010
The role of software ecosystems in the development and evolution of open architecture systems has received insufficient consideration. Such systems are composed of heterogeneously licensed...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
The Role of Software Licenses in Open Architecture Ecosystems
Jul 2009
The role of software ecosystems in the development and evolution of open architecture systems has received insufficient consideration. Such systems are composed of heterogeneously-licensed...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Collaboration Practices and Affordances in Free/Open Source Software Development
Dec 2009
This paper examines collaborative work practices, development processes, project and community dynamics, and other socio-technical relationships in Free and Open Source Software Development...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Understanding Requirements for Open Source Software
Nov 2008
This paper presents findings from an empirical study directed at understanding the roles, forms, and consequences arising in requirements for Open Source Software (OSS) development efforts. Five...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Mobilization of Software Developers: The Free Software Movement
Dec 2007
The paper has three purposes: the first is to provide a deeper understanding of the ideology and work practices of free and open source software development, the second to characterize the free...
Provided by Emerald Group Publishing
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White Papers
Free/Open Source Software Development: Recent Research Results and Emerging Opportunities
Sep 2007
The focus of this paper is to review what is known about Free and Open Source Software Development (FOSSD) work practices, development processes, project and community dynamics, and other...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Towards a National Research Infrastructure for Multidisciplinary Empirical Study of Free/Open Source Software Development
Jan 2008
The Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) research community is growing across and within multiple disciplines. This community faces a new and unusual situation. The traditional difficulties of...
Provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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White Papers
The Future of Research in Free/Open Source Software Development
Nov 2010
Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) development is not the same as Software Engineering (SE). Why this is so is unclear and open to various interpretations. Both address the challenges of developing...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Governance in Open Source Software Development Projects: Towards a Model for Network-Centric Edge Organizations
Jan 2008
Open Source Software Development (OSSD) is a community-oriented, network-centric approach to building complex software systems. OSSD projects are typically organized as edge organizations that...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
CloneDetective - A Workbench for Clone Detection Research
Jul 2009
The area of clone detection has considerably evolved over the last decade, leading to approaches with better results, but at the same time using more elaborate algorithms and tool chains. In the...
Provided by Technische Universität München
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Case Studies
Bilcare Research Cost-Effectively Scales for Business Growth With Red Hat Enterprise Linux With Integrated Virtualization
May 2010
A Bilcare Research partner is an innovation-led solutions provider that partners with the global pharmaceutical and healthcare industry to improve patient healthcare outcomes. They wanted to set...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Harnessing Sustainability With Open Source BI: Fat Spaniel Helps Make the Planet Greener Through Collaboration With Jaspersoft and Red Hat
Apr 2010
Founded in 2003, Fat Spaniel Technologies is the leading independent provider of critical software-as-a-service monitoring and reporting tools for the renewable energy industry. Fat Spaniel needed...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Red Hat Delivers High Performance and Unmatched Scalability for Cleartrip
May 2010
Launched in July 2006, Cleartrip (www.cleartrip.com) is one of the top three online travel companies in India with 35 percent market share. They wanted to design an IT architecture that is...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Citigroup: Red Hat Innovation Award Winner
Jan 2010
As one of the largest and most prestigious financial services firms in the world, Citi has approximately 200 million customer accounts in more than 140 countries. They wanted to reconcile two...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
NYSE Euronext Standardizes on Jboss Enterprise Middleware
May 2010
As the leading and most liquid equities exchange group, NYSE Euronext powers the exchanging world and is comprised of equities and derivatives exchanges across the United States and Europe that...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
People's Group Powers Its Critical Mailing and Infrastructure Systems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Jul 2010
People's Group is situated in the city of Bhopal, capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. They wanted to design a centralized, secure, controllable, stable, and high-performing mailing...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
MCarbon Utilizes Red Hat Solutions to Deliver Technology That Drives Telecom Innovation
Jan 2010
mCarbon is one of the leading product companies in the Indian telecom sector, primarily working in the areas of telecom value added services and network applications. They wanted to design a...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Marico Reduces IT Costs by 50 Percent and Increases Performance by Migrating Mission-Critical SAP Applications to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Jul 2010
Marico is a leading Indian Group in Consumer Products & Services in the Global Beauty and Wellness space. Marico wanted to design a reliable, stable, high-performance, scalable, and cost-effective...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
NCDEX Reduces IT Costs, Increases Performance, Standardizes It Architecture and Achieves 99.99% Uptime Using Red Hat Solutions
Jun 2010
National Commodities & Derivatives Exchange Limited (NCDEX) is an online multi-commodity exchange. The NCDEX wanted to design a reliable, stable, high-performance, cost-effective IT system on open...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation Modernizes Ticketing System and Train Enquiry System With Red Hat Solutions
Apr 2010
Indian Railways is the world's busiest railway network, carrying 18 million passengers through approximately 7,000 railway stations every day. The IRCTC needed to modernize ticketing and passenger...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Red Hat Provides Castile and León With a Reliable and Flexible Infrastructure for Its Supercomputing Centre
Apr 2010
The Supercomputing Centre of Castile and León (FCSC) is a public body that was established in early 2008. The FCSC wanted to build a new hardware and software infrastructure for the Supercomputing...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Deutsche Borse Systems Builds the First Risk Management Platform on Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging and the Open Standard AMQP
Mar 2010
Deutsche Borse Group includes Deutsche Borse AG, a DAX company and one of the world's largest exchange organizations. They wanted to create a new client interface for a real-time transaction risk...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
GE Money Bank Scales It Infrastructure for Business Growth With Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Virtualization
Jan 2010
GE Money Bank is one of the largest financial institutions in the Czech Republic. They needed to consolidate its technology infrastructure in order to scale with business growth and reduce...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
ITI Neovision Deploys Red Hat Virtualization Technology on HP Bladesystem to Improve Hardware Efficiency and Achieve Cost Savings
Oct 2009
The ITI Group is Poland's leading media and entertainment group. ITI Neovision looked to replace its enterprise platform solution, with a virtualized environment that could be supported by local...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Autotrader.co.uk Migrates to Red Hat Solutions for Performance, Stability and Reliability
Jun 2009
AutoTrader.co.uk is the UK's No. 1 motoring website, with over 10.3 million monthly unique users, who carry out over 106 million searches on new and used vehicles. AutoTrader wanted to replace...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Leading UK Exam Board Cuts Costs, Innovates With End-to-End Open Source Solution
Jun 2009
The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA) is the largest of the three English exam boards. The AQA wanted to launch an extranet service that would be available to its external users of more...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Arsys Achieves Reliable Internet Services With Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Jun 2009
Arsys is Spain's leading Internet services specialist, providing domain name registration, and hosting, housing, and online applications. The Arsys wanted unifying Linux distributions and also...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
igate Powers Its Mission-Critical ManageMe Application on Jboss Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Jun 2010
iGATE Corporation, a global IT company, provides niche IT services in enterprise solutions, business intelligence and data warehousing, application development and maintenance. The iGate wanted to...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Great Offshore Ltd. Reduces Costs, Increases Performance, and Scales for Growth With Red Hat and SAP Solutions
Mar 2010
Great Offshore Ltd. is India's prominent integrated offshore oilfield services provider, offering a broad spectrum of business services to upstream oil and gas producers to carry out offshore...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Gramo A/S Reduces Energy Costs With Smart Power Solution
Aug 2010
Denmark is under the control of an energy exchange market, says Mogens Birkelund, CEO of GridManager. This market is a system where producers and traders find energy prices for each hour the day...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Learndirect Teaches the Benefits of Open Source With Red Hat
Jan 2010
Learndirect is the largest e-learning network of its kind in the world. Learndirect provides delivers online education, training, and advice for two million users, facilitating over 50,000...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Prorail Keeps Trains on the Right Track, Thanks to Red Hat
Nov 2008
ProRail manages the rail infrastructure in the Netherlands and is responsible for the Dutch railway network. ProRail wanted to maintain an uninterrupted rail service by realizing an uptime of 100...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Sherwin-Williams Consumer Group Takes on Rosy Hue With Help From Red Hat
May 2009
Founded in 1866, The Sherwin-Williams Company is a global leader in the manufacture, development, distribution, and sale of coatings and related products to professional, industrial, commercial,...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Red Hat Solutions Enable CME Group to Process Millions of Critical Financial Transactions Per Day
Jul 2009
CME Group is the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange. The CME Group wanted to migrate from a cost-inhibitive proprietary UNIX platform to a Linux alternative in order to reduce...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Union Bank Reinvents It Environment With Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Jboss Enterprise Middleware
Aug 2009
Union Bank, N.A., headquartered in San Francisco is a full-service commercial bank providing an array of financial services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, and major...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Whole Foods Reduced Costs and Increased Performance and Manageability of Business-Critical Applications With Red Hat Solutions
Jun 2009
Founded in 1980 in Austin, Texas, Whole Foods Market (www.wholefoodsmarket.com) is a leader in the natural and organic foods industry and was America's first national certified organic grocer....
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Powers 100% Availability and Impressive Cost Savings for SPARQ Solutions
Feb 2010
SPARQ Solutions is the IT&T service provider for two leading Australian energy companies, ENERGEX and Ergon Energy. SPARQ wanted to replace its end-of-life proprietary system with a stable and...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
State of Tennessee Migrates Middleware Environment to Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Aug 2010
The State of Tennessee's OIR provides direction, planning, resources, execution and coordination in managing the information systems needs of the State of Tennessee. OIR wanted to implement...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Travel Channel Delivers Enhanced Online User Experiences, Gains Visibility Into Application Performance, and Optimizes Its Environment With Red Hat Solutions
Aug 2010
Launched in 1987 and owned by Scripps Networks Interactive, Travel Channel is available in more than 95 million US cable homes. Travel Channel required a management and monitoring solution to...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
Locating System Problems Using Dynamic Instrumentation
Jan 2010
This paper introduces SystemTap, a new performance and kernel troubleshooting infrastructure for Linux. SystemTap provides a scripting environment that can eliminate the modify-build-test loop...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for System Z
Feb 2008
Consider the benefits of combining the number one Linux distribution with the number one RAS hardware platform. Customer adoption of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z is growing, and the...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
German Startup Succeeds in Fastest-Growing IT Market With Sun Servers and Software
Dec 2008
Conemis AG wanted to maximize limited startup resources and drive new business. The challenge was to gain success quickly in growing market. Conemis built an SaaS environment based on Sun servers...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Tips and Techniques for Red Hat Certification Success
Aug 2010
Passing the Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT), Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), or one of the Architect-level exams is a major undertaking, but when you're successful it's a major...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Case Studies
Unix-to-Linux Migration Pays Big for Industrias Peñoles
Jan 2010
The world's largest producer of refined silver and other metals, Industrias Penoles, S.A. is comprised of 50 companies with nearly 7,000 employees throughout Mexico .One of the biggest concerns of...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
Introducing Technology Into the Linux Kernel: A Case Study
Nov 2009
There can be no doubt that a great many technologies have been added to Linux TM over the past ten years. What is less well-known is that it is often necessary to introduce a large amount of Linux...
Provided by Portland State University
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Whitepapers
BRMS Whitepaper: IBM WebSphere ILOG Business Rule Management Systems: The Case for Architects and Developers
Aug 2010
The implementation of a BRMS brings organizations wide-ranging benefits in terms of the accessibility and oversight of automated decision logic, along with the ability to accelerate the...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization and Intel Itanium: Linux Open Source Virtualization With Enterprise-Class Features
Aug 2008
This white paper discusses the state of the industry, detailing market drivers for mainframe-class features on a server and the benefits of open source technology solutions, explaining the...
Provided by Focused Consulting
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Webcasts
Linux on System z: How Do I Get Started?
May 2010
While many organizations have made the strategic decision to consolidate workloads to Linux on System z to drive down total cost of application ownership, some often struggle with the planning...
Provided by CA
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 R2: SQL Server 2008 R2 and Open Source (Level 300)
Jun 2010
The presenter of this webcast explains how the attendee can integrate Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 business intelligence solutions with other data sources, in particular open-source databases. The...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Guide to Snare for Linux
Jun 2008
This paper introduces to the functionality of the Snare Agent for the Linux operating system. Snare for Linux provides a C2-style auditing subsystem for the Linux operating system, and facilitates...
Provided by InterSect Alliance
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White Papers
The ARM Fast Context Switch Extension for Linux
Sep 2009
The ARMv5 CPUs are inexpensive, low power, 32 bit processors widely used in embedded systems. Because of these processors' cache implementation, using memory protection on these systems incurs a...
Provided by OMICRON
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White Papers
Analysis of Inherent Randomness of the Linux Kernel
Sep 2009
While analyzing latency data from real-time Linux variants the authors found that there are distinct parts to the system jitter - those that can be attributed to software constructs and those that...
Provided by Lanzhou University of Technology
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White Papers
Myths and Realities of Real-Time Linux Software Systems
Sep 2009
While this paper presents an overview of the issues and concerns commonly experienced by deterministic computer systems, it is not intended to be a substitute for a detailed analysis of one...
Provided by VersaLogic
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White Papers
Getting Linux Into a Train HVAC (Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning)
Sep 2009
Open source and free software is great constantly growing technology pool consisting of millions of tools, rapidly developing technologies and a solution for nearly every technical problem. Some...
Provided by Opentech Systems
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White Papers
Investigating Latency Effects of the Linux Real-Time Preemption Patches (PREEMPT RT) on AMD's GEODE LX Platform
Sep 2009
When it comes to embedded systems, real-time characteristics like low-latency, deterministic behavior and guaranteed calculations are of utmost importance and there has been an increasing market...
Provided by VersaLogic
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White Papers
Flash File Systems Hackers Hut / Linux Kernel
Aug 2008
Using flash memory in mass storage devices is an upcoming trend. With high performance, low energy consumption and shock proof properties, flash memory is an appealing alternative to the large...
Provided by University of Twente
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White Papers
Secure Thyself: Securing Individual Peers in Collaborative Peer-to-Peer Environments
May 2008
P2P networks and the computations that they enable hold great potential in designing the next generation of very-large scale distributed applications. However, the P2P phenomenon has largely left...
Provided by National Institute of Technology Hamirpur
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White Papers
OpenUAT: The Open Source Ubiquitous Authentication Toolkit
Feb 2009
Authenticating spontaneous interactions between devices and users is challenging for several reasons: the wireless (and therefore invisible) nature of device communication, the heterogeneous...
Provided by ETH Zurich
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White Papers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Migrate from Solaris with Confidence
Jun 2011
By migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you gain the flexibility to run the applications you require on the right platform, regardless of processor type, without sacrificing the RAS features of...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
Context Switch Overheads for Linux on ARM Platforms
Jun 2007
Context switching imposes a performance penalty on threads in a multitasking environment. The source of this penalty is both direct overhead due to running the context switch code and indirect...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
The Challenge of Heterogeneously Licensed Systems in Open Architecture Software Ecosystems
Apr 2010
The role of software ecosystems in the development and evolution of open architecture systems has received insufficient consideration. Such systems are composed of heterogeneously licensed...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
The Role of Software Licenses in Open Architecture Ecosystems
Jul 2009
The role of software ecosystems in the development and evolution of open architecture systems has received insufficient consideration. Such systems are composed of heterogeneously-licensed...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Collaboration Practices and Affordances in Free/Open Source Software Development
Dec 2009
This paper examines collaborative work practices, development processes, project and community dynamics, and other socio-technical relationships in Free and Open Source Software Development...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Understanding Requirements for Open Source Software
Nov 2008
This paper presents findings from an empirical study directed at understanding the roles, forms, and consequences arising in requirements for Open Source Software (OSS) development efforts. Five...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Mobilization of Software Developers: The Free Software Movement
Dec 2007
The paper has three purposes: the first is to provide a deeper understanding of the ideology and work practices of free and open source software development, the second to characterize the free...
Provided by Emerald Group Publishing
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White Papers
Free/Open Source Software Development: Recent Research Results and Emerging Opportunities
Sep 2007
The focus of this paper is to review what is known about Free and Open Source Software Development (FOSSD) work practices, development processes, project and community dynamics, and other...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Towards a National Research Infrastructure for Multidisciplinary Empirical Study of Free/Open Source Software Development
Jan 2008
The Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) research community is growing across and within multiple disciplines. This community faces a new and unusual situation. The traditional difficulties of...
Provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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White Papers
The Future of Research in Free/Open Source Software Development
Nov 2010
Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) development is not the same as Software Engineering (SE). Why this is so is unclear and open to various interpretations. Both address the challenges of developing...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Governance in Open Source Software Development Projects: Towards a Model for Network-Centric Edge Organizations
Jan 2008
Open Source Software Development (OSSD) is a community-oriented, network-centric approach to building complex software systems. OSSD projects are typically organized as edge organizations that...
Provided by University of California
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Whitepapers
Top 10 questions about Ubuntu Server Edition
Jul 2011
What's different about Ubuntu Server? Is it secure enough to use in my business? Will it work on my hardware? Whether you've already deployed Ubuntu in your business or are just starting to...
Provided by Canonical Ltd
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White Papers
Top tips for a seamless Linux desktop deployment
Jul 2011
The purpose of this paper is to show how you can achieve the cost and performance benefits of open-source software, without any risk of downtime or disruption for end users. It might seem like a...
Provided by Canonical Ltd
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White Papers
CloneDetective - A Workbench for Clone Detection Research
Jul 2009
The area of clone detection has considerably evolved over the last decade, leading to approaches with better results, but at the same time using more elaborate algorithms and tool chains. In the...
Provided by Technische Universität München
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White Papers
Flexible Real-Time Embedded Architecture for Advanced Service Robots
Oct 2008
In most advanced real-time control applications such as service robots, the tasks have different criticality, flexible timing constraints and variable execution time. For instance, autonomous...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Case Studies
BitRock Case Study: SugarCRM
Jul 2007
SugarCRM is the world's leading provider of commercial open source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. As a commercial open source company, one of SugarCRM's top priorities is to grow...
Provided by BitRock
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Whitepapers
Wise Technology Lessons: Moving From a Local Proprietary System to a Global Open Source Framework
Aug 2009
WISE is a software platform that enables easy authoring and exchange of educational materials amongst learning science researchers. This paper charts the recent evolution of the WISE technology,...
Provided by World Science Festival
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White Papers
Don't Get Hacked: Automated Remote Vulnerability Scanning
Aug 2007
This white paper describes advantages of using Open Source Vulnerability Analysis tools to protect the Internet facing servers. While acknowledging that Vulnerability Analysis is only a part of...
Provided by hackertarget.com
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Whitepapers
Taneja Group: Optimization for Real Time Storage
Sep 2012
SVC and Real-time Compression reduces costs, improves IT Optimization and provides a outstanding savings for virtualized third party arrays through a software upgrade.
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The Efficient Hybrid Approach to Channel Routing Problem
May 2012
Known as an NP-Complete problem, the channel routing problem is very important in the automatic layout design of VLSI circuit and printed circuit boards. A distributed hybrid algorithm for this...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Third-Party Advice on Running Faster, Cheaper Oracle Backups
Sep 2012
Slow, expensive Oracle backups are incredibly frustrating. You shouldn't have to waste your time and your organization's money to back up data. But with so many products to choose from, all with...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
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Podcasts
Jaspersoft's Karl Van den Bergh Talks Big Data, BI, and Jaspersoft's Open Source Offerings
Apr 2012
In this podcast, the speaker explains about the open source data connectors and data management. The speaker's open source data connectors project - what they do and how to get started - which...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
LSMPMON: Performance Evaluation Mechanism of LSM-based Secure OS
Apr 2012
Security focused OS (Secure OS) is attracting attention as a method for minimizing damage caused by various intrusions. Secure OSs can restrict the damage due to an attack by using Mandatory...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Automatic Analysis Method for SELinux Security Policy
Apr 2012
Configuration of security policies is one of the most important prerequisites for secure and credible running of secure operating systems. Although it is a hard, tedious and complicated task...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
SAP and Sybase: A Marriage Made in Database Heaven (IDC)
Oct 2012
Examine information about SAP and Sybase, a year after their merger, provided at analyst briefings in May, 2011. These briefings were held at the SAPPHIRE NOW conference in Orlando, FL, and the...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
A Defect Prediction Model for Open Source Software
Jul 2012
Defect prediction models are significantly beneficial for software systems, where testing experts need to focus their attention and resources on problematic areas in the software under...
Provided by International Association of Engineers
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Whitepapers
Moodle Based LMS and Open Source Software (OSS) Efficiency in e-Learning
Apr 2012
This paper describes the designing and real time implementation of web based Learning Management Systems (LMSs) based on Moodle open source. The authors are giving attention to Moodle based LMS...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science & Engineering Technology (IJCSET)
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Whitepapers
MoonGate: RTS Engine With User-Oriented Architecture
Jul 2011
This paper introduces MoonGate - a real-time strategy engine based on replaceable components, thus serving as an easily customizable educational environment for studying a wide range of problems...
Provided by Dynamic Publishers
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Whitepapers
GPUMLib: An Efficient Open-Source GPU Machine Learning Library
Mar 2011
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) placed at the authors' disposal an unprecedented computational-power, largely surpassing the performance of cutting-edge CPUs (Central Processing Units). The...
Provided by Dynamic Publishers
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Whitepapers
A Hardware Time Manager Implementation for the Xenomai Real-Time Kernel of Embedded Linux
Aug 2012
Nowadays, the use of embedded operating systems in different embedded projects is subject to a tremendous growth. Embedded Linux is becoming one of those most popular EOSs due to its modularity,...
Provided by Université du Sud - Toulon - Var
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Whitepapers
On Benchmarking Embedded Linux Flash File Systems
Aug 2012
Due to its attractive characteristics in terms of performance, weight and power consumption, NAND ash memory became the main Non Volatile Memory (NVM) in embedded systems. Those NVMs also present...
Provided by Université du Sud - Toulon - Var
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Whitepapers
Multicore Dynamic Kernel Modules Attachment Technique for Kernel Performance Enhancement
Aug 2012
Traditional monolithic kernels dominated kernel structures for long time along with small sized kernels, few hardware companies and limited kernel functionalities. Monolithic kernel structure was...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
