Previously, I’ve called out years for non-desktop Linux in 2008, Linux in both the low and high-ends of the market in 2009, ‘hidden’ Linux in 2010 and last year, cloud computing in 2011. For 2012, I see continued growth, prevalence, innovation and impact from Linux, thus leading to a 2012 that is dominated by Linux.
I expect to see nothing but continued strength for Linux and …
[Read more]Regular visitors to the 451 CAOS Theory blog will be well aware of The 451 Group’s CAOS (Commercial Adoption of Open Source) research service and our CAOS long-form reports.
They are probably less aware of the open source coverage that The 451 Group provides on a day-to-day and week-to-week basis, however, and I thought it would be worthwhile to provide some examples of The 451 Group’s ongoing open source coverage by highlighting a few recent reports.
The company’s core services are 451 Market Insight Service, which delivers daily insight into emerging enterprise IT markets, and 451 TechDealmaker, a forward-looking weekly …
[Read more]Topics for this podcast:
* Open source getting, and going without VC investment
* Oracle contributions to Linux and open source
* Sun’s latest moves with MySQL database and version 5.1
* Linux in high-end computing
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John Quinn writes about Scaling Drupal he is taking a one step at a time approach and is still writing his 4th and 5 stages.
His first step obviously is separating the drupal from a separate database server, and he chooses mysql for this purpose, moving your DB to a different machine is a good thing to do.
However then he gets this crazy idea of using NFS to share his
his drupal shared files :(
(he even dares to mention that the setup ease is good) Folks, we
abandonned NFS in the late nineties. NFS is still a recipe for
disaster, it has performance issues , it as stability issues
(stale locks), and no security admin in his right mind will
tolerate portmap to be running in his DMZ.
(Also think about the IO path that …