Canonical Ltd, the lead sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced that users of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS edition (Long Term Support) can now download and deploy IBM DB2 9. The simplified deployment process and ease-of-use of Ubuntu, combined with IBM DB2 9 data server software, will enable companies to develop and deploy data servers at a...
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IBM DB2 9 for Linux Available to Ubuntu Users
France chooses Ubuntu Linux over Microsoft
Whilst France is currently in the throws of a vicious election campaign, it seems that quietly in the background another victory has taken place. The victory isn’t just for freedom, it seems that the victory is for free software.On Friday the French National Assembly choose to use Linux and not Microsoft for the 577...
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Nortel – is the rot still there ?
Nortel Networks fell from grace many years ago. It has consistently and continually had to restate its figures, though recently tings were starting to look better – until now.Shares of the company dipped on Thursday after it announced that it would need to, once again, restate it financial results. While some investors are disappointed...
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Is Microsoft criminalizing users?
The Internet has been buzzing over the last few months with discomfort about various new controls and impositions placed on the user in the different versions of Vista. We realised that like many users, we really hadn’t spent much time (OK any) looking at the End User License Agreement (EULA). What we did find...
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Spain nixes North Korean boycott
According to the London Financial Times Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s idiosyncratic leader, may be dispensing Hennessy cognac and Cartier watches to his cronies for a little while longer, thanks to a 300-year-old territorial dispute between the UK and Spain. The FT reports that the ban was agreed by the United Nations last October as...
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