Good news for developers this week. Zend Technologies has announced its Zend Core product will run on the Windows Server 2008 platform. Providing parity between Windows Server and Linux in running PHP. All Zend products will run on the Windows Server 2008 platform by the end of the year.
There’s an interesting discussion on hacking going on over at LinuxForums. A poster from Fullerton, California who uses Suse Linux says he’s been the target of hackers hired. By a worldwide multi-million dollar company after a Wikipedia slip exposed his IP address, among other things.
2008 marked not just the beginning of a new year for Linux vendor Red Hat, but also a new beginning for its new CEO Jim Whitehurst. Whitehurst spoke with the InternetNews about his plans to tackle the challenges the Linux company faces.
Ubuntu and Red Hat are the most used Linux distributions among the 35,000 members of content-management vendor Alfresco’s community. The company found in its second survey of trends in enterprise open-source software usage.
Windows Server 2008 will release to manufacturing in February after all, InformationWeek reports.
Information Week magazine is declaring the top open-source stories of 2007. Among them: Microsoft and Samba, Dell shipping Ubuntu, and GPL Version 3. Here’s an excerpt from the article penned by Serdar Yegulalp regarding the Ubuntu story.
Microsoft unveiled a public beta for its hypervisor-based server virtualization technology. Known as Hyper-V, the technology is featured with some versions of Windows Server 2008.
This just in from Information Week magazine: Jim Laurent at Sun Microsystems composed a chart comparing Solaris 10 to Linux for his boss, Bill Vass, the chief operating officer of Sun’s federal business unit.
If you are looking for free SQL Server 2008 training, Server Pronto has the hookup. Check out Jeff Wharton’s list to get you started.
In the wake of the release of SQL Server 2008 Community Technology Review, there’s been a lot of talk about the ins and outs, the pros and cons, the best new features, etc. And here’s a little more.