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September 17, 2013
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Ubuntu on Windows Azure gets Juju DevOps

New Orleans: Canonical, in conjunction with Microsoft, announced at Linuxcon that it is bringing its Juju cloud orchestration program to Windows Azure. With it, cloud managers can easily deploy Web and network services on Ubuntu Linux in an Azure cloud.

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September 17, 2013
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IBM and Linux: The next billion dollars

On September 17, IBM will announce at LinuxCon 2013 that it will invest $1 billion in new Linux and open-source technologies for its Power Systems servers. This announcement comes 12 years after IBM famously announced that it was backing the then unproven Linux with a billion-dollar investment.

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September 16, 2013
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Who writes Linux? Almost 10,000 developers

NEW ORLEANS: Who writes Linux? Perhaps the better question is who doesn’t write it?

At LinuxCon, in New Orleans, The Linux Foundation revealed in its latest report “Linux Kernel Development: How Fast It is Going, Who is Doing It, What They Are Doing and Who is Sponsoring It.” that the largest collaborative project in the history of computing is growing larger than ever with over 10,000 developers contributing to Linux in the last eight years.

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September 15, 2013
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Keeping your Red Hat Enterprise Linux current

In the eternal IT war between development and operations, one perpetual battle has been between the developers, who want the newest software tools, and the system operators, who want nice stable. reliable programs. Red Hat wants to bring a truce to these old enemies, and no, it’s not DevOps.

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