Canonical Announces Ubuntu Advantage Partner Program

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Calxeda Announces ARM Server Alliance

Officials with Calxeda, the startup that's building ARM-based chips for low-power data center servers, announced a & Trailblazer& program designed to create an ecosystem around its technology. But, while Calxeda touted support from Ubuntu Linux sponsor Canonical, among other companies, there's been no hint from Microsoft that it will create...

Officials with Calxeda, the startup that's building ARM-based chips for low-power data center servers, announced a & Trailblazer& program designed to create an ecosystem around its technology. But, while Calxeda touted support from Ubuntu Linux sponsor Canonical, among other companies, there's been no hint from Microsoft that it will create a server edition of its ARM-based & Windows 8.& ...

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TDF Announces the Engineering Steering Committee

The Document Foundation has announced the members of the Engineering Steering Committee. "The 10 members of the ESC are Andras Timar (localization), Michael Meeks and Petr Mladek of Novell, Caolan McNamara and David Tardon of RedHat, Bjoern Michaelsen of Canonical, Michael Natterer of Lanedo, Rene Engelhard of Debian, and the independent contributors Norbert Thiebaud and Rainer Bielefeld (QA). The ESC convenes once a week by telephone to discuss the progress of the time-based release schedule and coordinate development activities. Their meetings routinely include other active, interested developers and topic experts."

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Red Hat Announces NoSQL Inspired Distributed Data Cache

Red Hat today announced JBoss Enterprise Data Grid 6, which it calls "a cloud-ready, highly scalable distributed data cache." Cameron Purdy defines a data grid as "a system composed of multiple servers that work together to manage information and related operations - such as computations - in a distributed environment."

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