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Jul. 3, 2009
The London Stock Exchange moves to Linux
Last September, right at the very start of one of the biggest market meltdowns in history since the October 1929
crash, the London Stock Exchange's entire IT system brought the whole exchange to a complete standstill for almost
a whole trading day. It was the first, and also the last time such an event would happen. Since December 2007,
the London Stock Exchange had been using a Windows-based system called TradElect. There had been some problems and a
few snags with TradElect, but it never had failed so miserably like
it did on that terrible September day.
Jul. 3, 2009
Red Hat and Ubuntu offer new cloud certification program
Red Hat says it is launching a new cloud certification program, while Canonical, the commercial vendor behind
Ubuntu Linux, is also launching paid support services for its cloud offerings. These two initiatives have the
potential to help the Linux vendors generate revenues from the cloud as enterprise adoption of cloud technologies
increase.
Jun. 10, 2009
Hosting company denies weak passwords led to gigantic hack attack
Russ Foster, director of U.K. Web hosting provider VA-Serv.com has fully denied public allegations that
weak and insecure password management combined with loosely configured servers were responsible for a massive
Internet attack that wiped out data for more than 100,000 Web sites in more than 23 countries. Foster also says
that he was shocked when he learned that the CEO of an Indian software company hanged himself late last night,
shortly after his software was determined to be the culprit of the security breach of the UK-based Web hosting
firm.
May 4, 2009
FreeBSD launches the new 7.2 version of its Linux OS
The FreeBSD engineering team has released the new 7.2 version of its Linux operating system. This is the second
release from the 7 series which improves on the features of FreeBSD 7.1. Users of earlier FreeBSD releases can also
use FreeBSD Update to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.2, but will be prompted to rebuild all third-party applications (e.g.,
anything installed from the ports tree) after the second invocation of "freebsd-update install", in order to handle
differences in the system libraries between FreeBSD 6.x and FreeBSD 7.x.
Apr. 21, 2009
Oracle has great plans for the Solaris operating system
During a conference call yesterday after his $7.4 billion acquisition deal was announced, Oracle
CEO Larry Ellison said one of the primary reasons Oracle is interested in Sun is because of its
Solaris operating system, a widely distributed version of Unix that has a large installed base and has long been the dependable
platform for Oracle's popular database.
Apr. 15, 2009
10% of computers still not patched against Conficker worm
In the last two weeks, there has been some movement by the Conficker worm. Conficker was supposed to attack
Windows computers and laptops on April 1st. So far, that hasn't happened, but data gathered yesterday from
enterprise users of Sophos' Endpoint Assessment Test reveals that about one in ten
computers is still not adequately patched, leaving it widely vulnerable to a
Conficker infection at any time.
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