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VMWare acuires Zimbra from Yahoo

matreides — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:04:45 +0000

The announcement published on Zimbra’s site states that VMWare will has acquired Zimbra from Yahoo. It is apparent that VMWare has it’s sites set on entering the cloud in a bold way, and this move places them in competition with Gmail.

The Zimbra Collaboration Suite is available as an open source community supported version, a closed source and a hosted version. ZCS offers features that rival MS Exchange including active syncing of calendars and contacts to mobile devices in the commercial version.

It is interesting to note that Zimbra like Kerio runs on Mac OS X and Linux, where as the later also runs on Windows and is not open source. The open source edition is available in for porting to other operating systems but has yet to be ported to any of the other BSDs besides Mac OS X.

Although VMWare claims that they value Zimbra’s open source community, only time will tell if the thin air will affect their decisions.

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NetBSD runs on OpenBlockS 600

matreides — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:54:31 +0000

According the web site from the self proclaimed ‘Embedded Leader in Japan’ this devices is a palm sized server available for approximately 599 USD. It includes two 1000bt network connections a rs-232 console connection and two USB connections. At this time it supports OpenBlockS600 supports Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, and NetBSD.

A full review of the product is available here.

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HighPoint Technologies RocketRAID 622 for FreeBSD and Mac OS X

matreides — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:12:28 +0000

The RocketRAID 622 from HighPoint Technologies supports most modern operating systems, according to the site, but only list Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. It took some additional digging on the HighPoint Mac support page to discover that Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) has support already built in.

While the RocketRAID 622 boasts some pretty impressive features it remains to be seen if the device can deliver. The following is a list extracted form the site;

PCI-Express 2.0 x1 (Compatible with PCI-Express 1.0)
Up to 2 SATA devices with point-to-point connectivity
Port Multiplier support up to 10 SATA Devices
RAID level 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD
Multiple RAID Support
BIOS Boot to RAID with point-to-point connectivity or through port multiplier
Quick, Background or Foreground Initialization
OCE/ORLM (Online Capacity Expansion / Online RAID Level Migration)
Hot plug and Hot Swap
Hard drive activity and failed LED
HighPoint RAID Management Suite (Browser based, CLI and BIOS management through hotkey (ctrl-h)
Monitoring (SHI Storage Health Inspector), Event log, SMTP and Alarm
Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X Snow Leopard
RoHS compliant

The Power Of Community (via: Open-Tube.com)

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:28:57 +0000

We had earlier featured many open source software, but here is a list that is the God of all the open source software, the software that is matured, well-established, popularized open source development and the use of free open source products. These projects are serving as a foundation to many software development projects, business networks and the public Internet for years and showed the world the power of community development.

4. FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD

FreeBSD is famous for superior reliability and performance. NetBSD is famous for supporting a wide range of hardware platforms, including embedded systems and mobile devices. OpenBSD is advertised as possibly the most secure Unix-like operating system, with a security audit that never stops.