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In Part 1 ('Why Are You Waiting?', Vol. 2, issue 9), I discussed the business and technical considerations in migrating Microsoft IIS Web servers to Apache on Linux. Now, I'll address those who've decided that migrating to Apache on Linux is the way to go for their organization and sho...
EnterpriseDB, based in Edison, New Jersey, has announced what it calls an 'enterprise class' open-source database strategy that leverages PostgreSQL with Oracle compatibility. In an exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview, Andy Astor, co-founder and CEO said the company will offer 'enterprise c...
Last month we finally wrapped up the long journey toward creating a useful shell script with the hi-low game. Alright, 'useful' might be a bit of a stretch, but if you've read through all the columns leading up to this point, you should have a good understanding of the basics of creati...
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Open source databases running on Linux like MySQL, Ingres r3, PostgreSQL, and Firebird have aroused a lot of interest. Database developers and corporate users are heralding the anticipated the release of MySQL 5.0, which includes enterprise-level features such as stored procedures, tri...
When blade servers burst on the computing scene several years ago, they were hailed as a replacement for traditional rack-mount solutions and a catalyst for the continuing shift away from proprietary Unix servers and mainframes and toward systems leveraging the x86 architecture and Lin...
The purpose of this article is to show how basic security principles can help you develop programs that are harder for the bad guys to break. We'll examine a simple function that executes a command as though it were typed at the keyboard, exactly what the library function system does. ...
Here's an understatement: security has been pretty front and center lately. When was the last time the 'S' word hasn't been somewhere on the cover of at least one of the weekly IT magazines?
Trade publications, news magazines, and blogs are filled with secrets and solutions for easily and cost-effectively building Web sites, intranets, and the like. Recipes like these are great but, in reality, how do we make it happen?
Web site content management can be difficult, and commercial products can be expensive. Luckily, a few open source projects are highly recommended for the job. In fact, it's been claimed that Bricolage was one of the best content management systems, even among commercial offerings, and...
The Network File System (NFS) is an important mechanism for sharing files among end users on a broad range of platforms. End users have relied on NFS to support mission-critical applications for several decades. However, in recent years, other shared file systems have been developed to...
Talk to young programmers and developers today and you'd be fooled into thinking that free/open source software (FOSS) was a relatively new invention. Those crusty old folk among us (myself included, born in that prehistoric era of the early '70s) know that it goes back a little furthe...
When you consider the way LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, or Python) has evolved, you could draw comparisons to a very low tech but effective method of collaboration: the farmers' cooperative. Individual farmers on their own lacked the means to collect, negotiate, store, and shi...
Founded in December 2002, software compliance management pioneer Black Duck Software now has a staff of 30 and offers a platform to the market in the form of an information service which it sells as a subscription and already has two dozen customers across the USA and overseas. Doug Le...


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