<b>IT World:</b> "The Linux marketplace has matured. The heavy lifting has been done," she said. "Working with the CodePlex Foundation is addressing the next generation of challenges."
As the transition from Yahoo's advertising system to Microsoft's adCenter approaches, users of Yahoo's tools wonder aloud whether key features they like will make the transition, too.
Two new products, Forefront Protection 2010 and Active Directory Federation Services 2.0, are designed to provide secure collaboration for users of Microsoft's SharePoint.
<b>Ubuntu Geek: </b>"DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is an audio player for GNU/Linux systems with X11 (though now it also runs in plain console without X, in FreeBSD, and in OpenSolaris)."
The latest Sun customers to need reassuring from Oracle are the StorageTek data tape customers, who are told of Oracle's long-term commitment to the technology.
<b>Hubfolio: </b>"Getting access to your remote Ubuntu desktops through an ISA HTTP proxy can be a pain. This article shows you how to create a HTTP tunnel that will allow you to bypass even the most restrictive proxies and firewalls."
<b>Packt:</b> "In order to demonstrate Django's rapid development potential, we will begin by constructing a simple, but fully-featured, e-commerce store. The goal is to be up and running with a product catalog and products for sale, including a simple payment processing interface, in about half-an-hour."
<b>Motho ke motho ka botho:</b> "I tease the Gnome crowd a lot for being chubby, but I didn't realize that the weight problem had exceeded 256Mb. That's not overweight, that's clinical obesity."
The social networking site has plenty of security problems of its own making to resolve and, in the interim, professional cyber thieves are exploiting other vulnerabilities.
<b>Packt:</b> "We will begin by creating the terrain for the underwater environment. In the sequel of the article, we will learn how to add vegetation, pebbles and corals. After which we will discuss how to add distant terrains, lighting effects and finally composition."
<b>Zona-M:</b> "How do you quickly create a spreadsheet where, for example, every other line has a background of a different color? Here are a couple of methods"
While the Mozilla Jetpack SDK is still a work in progress, it is set to be an integrated part of the upcoming Firefox 4 release and continues to gain new features and capabilities with each new SDK release.
<b>Daniweb:</b> "Google does a lot of things well, maybe too well, and it's adding to its portfolio of tools on a weekly basis. At some point you have to look at the number of pies in which Google has its fingers and start to get a little frightened of this company."
<b>LWN.net:</b> "The deployment of Linux on the desktop and in the server room is well served by the general-purpose distribution. In the embedded world things are very different: although Linux is used widely, the concept of the general-purpose distribution is much less in evidence."
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "OpenOffice.org isn't the only game in town for open source word processing. One of the best, and underexposed, open word processors is AbiWord."
When it comes to securing the enterprise, much of what is done has been in vogue for so long and makes sense on the surface. But probe a bit deeper, and much of what has long been held sacrosanct now makes little sense.
<b>FSF.org:</b> "Apple has removed GNU Go from the App Store, continuing their longstanding habit of preventing users from doing anything that Apple doesn't want them to do."