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Microsoft contributes open-source code to Samba

2011-11-08T18:35:00.000+02:00

Microsoft has contributed source code under the GPLv3 to Samba, the file server software that enables Linux servers to share files with Windows PCs.
Freak snowstorm reported in hell. Tea party agrees Obama is the best candidate for 2012 presidential election. Microsoft submits open-source code under the GPLv3 to Samba. Those are all pretty unlikely, but Microsoft really did submit code to the Samba file server open-source project.
This might not strike you as too amazing. After all, Microsoft has supported some open-source projects at CodePlex for some time now and they will work with some other projects such as the Python and PHP languages and the Drupal content management system (CMS). But, Samba, Samba is different. They’re an old Microsoft enemy.
Samba, itself, is a set of Windows interoperability programs that provide secure, stable and fast file and print services for all client operating systems that use the Server Message Block (SMB)/Common Internet File System (SMB/CIFS) protocol. As such Samba is used to seamlessly integrate Linux/Unix servers and desktops into Active Directory (AD) networks using the Winbind daemon. In common usage, Samba is on almost every network attached storage (NAS) device that ships today. In short, Samba enables Linux to rival Windows Server on workgroups.
In fact, it was Samba on Linux that took Linux from being an edge server, used for Web serving and e-mail, to being an infrastructure server. With Samba, Linux delivers the bread and butter of file and print serving that every business needs in millions of companies.
Since Samba began in 1992, Microsoft has been well, less than happy, with its server rival. But, every since Microsoft lost an anti-trust case in the European Union and was forced to open its network protocols to Samba in 2007, Microsoft has ever so slowly been getting along better with Samba.
But, even so it came as a surprise when on October 10th, when Stephen A. Zarko of Microsoft’s Open Source Technology Center, gave Samba some proof of concept code for extended protection (channel and service binding) for Firefox and Samba for NT LAN Manager (NTLM) authentication. That’s one small step for open source, one giant leap for Samba/Windows interoperability.
As Chris Hertel of the Samba Team wrote, “A few years back, a patch submission from coders at Microsoft would have been amazing to the point of unthinkable, but the battles are mostly over and times have changed. We still disagree on some things such as the role of software patents in preventing the creation of innovative software; but Microsoft is now at the forefront of efforts to build a stronger community and improve interoperability in the SMB world.”
Hertel continued, “Most people didn’t even notice the source of the contribution. That’s how far things have come in the past four-ish years. …but some of us saw this as a milestone, and wanted to make a point of expressing our appreciation for the patch and the changes we have seen.”
Jeremy Allison, one of Samba’s leaders and a software engineer at Google Open Source Programs Office told me that he was “really pleased. It does show that Microsoft now consider us part of the landscape they inhabit, and cooperating with us is a really good sign that engineering-wise they understand Free Software/Open Source is a really good thing that can help them also (not to put words in their mouth, but I think recent work from them on Hadoop [An Apache open-source framework for reliable, scalable, distributed computing] and others have shown this).
That said, “Sending code to Samba is a big deal due to historical legacy of the EU lawsuit, and shows that Microsoft is becoming a mature member of the OSS [open source software] ecosystem,” said Allison.
He continued, “Now if they’d only stop threatening OSS over patents, and just tried to make money with it the same way everyone else does by building it into products (they’re nearly there I think), I think we could finally bury the hatchet :-).”
“But,” Allison concluded, “I want to be fair to the guys who sent the patch, that’s another department in Microsoft (the one who is suing people :-). These guys are in the OSS-lab in Microsoft and they’re great!”
OK, I was wrong. One amazing thing hasn’t happened. Two amazing things have happened. First, Microsoft has contributed code of its own free will to a former enemy, Samba. And, second, one of Samba leaders and a well-known champion of open-source software is saying that people at Microsoft are great. It’s a day of miracles!

Oracle is taking everything from SUN, or may be erasing it

2011-11-08T15:18:00.001+02:00

I feel a pity while I see ORACLE is erasing SUN from the map, I have noticed the following
1) Blogs on SUN domain now is directed to ORACLE
2) SSL Certificate is now replaced by Oracle SSL Certificates and not even configured properly
Check the below pics
Good Bye SUN, I will miss You
you go to blogs.sun.com you find yourself receiving Oracle Wild Card SSL Certificate

what is Hadoop ?

2011-11-04T23:20:00.003+02:00

Hadoop is open source project for Data Mining, it is now by Apache Foundation, if you see the names that are using it for data mining you will know the power of this project.

The Apache™ Hadoop™ project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing.

The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using a simple programming model. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage. Rather than rely on hardware to deliver high-avaiability, the library itself is designed to detect and handle failures at the application layer, so delivering a highly-availabile service on top of a cluster of computers, each of which may be prone to failures.

Project page is h3r3

Names/Companies using Hadoop Project , Ref link is h3r3

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A9.com - Amazon*
- We build Amazon's product search indices using the streaming API and pre-existing C++, Perl, and Python tools.
- We process millions of sessions daily for analytics, using both the Java and streaming APIs.
- Our clusters vary from 1 to 100 nodes
Accela Communications
- We use a Hadoop cluster to rollup registration and view data each night.
- Our cluster has 10 1U servers, with 4 cores, 4GB ram and 3 drives
- Each night, we run 112 Hadoop jobs
- It is roughly 4X faster to export the transaction tables from each of our reporting databases, transfer the data to the cluster, perform the rollups, then import back into the databases than to perform the same rollups in the database.
Adobe
- We use Hadoop and HBase in several areas from social services to structured data storage and processing for internal use.
- We currently have about 30 nodes running HDFS, Hadoop and HBase in clusters ranging from 5 to 14 nodes on both production and development. We plan a deployment on an 80 nodes cluster.
- We constantly write data to HBase and run MapReduce jobs to process then store it back to HBase or external systems.
- Our production cluster has been running since Oct 2008.
adyard
- We use Flume, Hadoop and Pig for log storage and report generation aswell as ad-Targeting.
- We currently have 12 nodes running HDFS and Pig and plan to add more from time to time.
- 50% of our recommender system is pure Pig because of it's ease of use.
- Some of our more deeply-integrated tasks are using the streaming api and ruby aswell as the excellent Wukong-Library.
Able Grape - Vertical search engine for trustworthy wine information
- We have one of the world's smaller hadoop clusters (2 nodes @ 8 CPUs/node)
- Hadoop and Nutch used to analyze and index textual information
Adknowledge - Ad network
- Hadoop used to build the recommender system for behavioral targeting, plus other clickstream analytics
- We handle 500MM clickstream events per day
- Our clusters vary from 50 to 200 nodes, mostly on EC2.
- Investigating use of R clusters atop Hadoop for statistical analysis and modeling at scale.
Aguja- E-Commerce Data analysis
- We use hadoop, pig and hbase to analyze search log, product view data, and analyze all of our logs
- 3 node cluster with 48 cores in total, 4GB RAM and 1 TB storage each.
Alibaba
- A 15-node cluster dedicated to processing sorts of business data dumped out of database and joining them together. These data will then be fed into iSearch, our vertical search engine.
- Each node has 8 cores, 16G RAM and 1.4T storage.
AOL
- We use hadoop for variety of things ranging from ETL style processing and statistics generation to running advanced algorithms for doing behavioral analysis and targeting.
- The Cluster that we use for mainly behavioral analysis and targeting has 150 machines, Intel Xeon, dual processors, dual core, each with 16GB Ram and 800 GB hard-disk.
ARA.COM.TR - Ara Com Tr - Turkey's first and only search engine
- We build Ara.com.tr search engine using the Python tools.
- We use Hadoop for analytics.
- We handle about 400TB per month
- Our clusters vary from 10 to 100 nodes
Atbrox
- We use hadoop for information extraction & search, and data analysis consulting
- Cluster: we primarily use Amazon's Elastic MapReduce

B

BabaCar
- 4 nodes cluster (32 cores, 1TB).
- We use Hadoop for searching and analysis of millions of rental bookings.
Baidu - the leading Chinese language search engine
- Hadoop used to analyze the log of search and do some mining work on web page database
- We handle about 3000TB per week
- Our clusters vary from 10 to 500 nodes
- Hypertable is also supported by Baidu
Beebler
- 14 node cluster (each node has: 2 dual core CPUs, 2TB storage, 8GB RAM)
- We use hadoop for matching dating profiles
Benipal Technologies - Outsourcing, Consulting, Innovation
- 35 Node Cluster (Core2Quad Q9400 Processor, 4-8 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD)
- Largest Data Node with Xeon E5420*2 Processors, 64GB RAM, 3.5 TB HDD
- Total Cluster capacity of around 20 TB on a gigabit network with failover and redundancy
- Hadoop is used for internal data crunching, application development, testing and getting around I/O limitations
Bixo Labs - Elastic web mining
- The Bixolabs elastic web mining platform uses Hadoop + Cascading to quickly build scalable web mining applications.
- We're doing a 200M page/5TB crawl as part of the public terabyte dataset project.
- This runs as a 20 machine Elastic MapReduce cluster.
BrainPad - Data mining and analysis
- We use Hadoop to summarize of user's tracking data.
- And use analyzing.
Brockmann Consult GmbH - Environmental informatics and Geoinformation services
- We use Hadoop to develop the Calvalus system - parallel processing of large amounts of satellite data.
- Focus on generation, analysis and validation of environmental Earth Observation data products.
- Our cluster is a rack with 20 nodes (4 cores, 4 GB RAM each),
- 112 TB diskspace total.

C

Caree.rs
- Hardware: 15 nodes
- We use Hadoop to process company and job data and run Machine learning algorithms for our recommendation engine.
CDU now!
- We use Hadoop for our internal searching, filtering and indexing
Charleston
- Hardware: 15 nodes
- We use Hadoop to process company and job data and run Machine learning algorithms for our recommendation engine.
Cloudspace
- Used on client projects and internal log reporting/parsing systems designed to scale to infinity and beyond.
- Client project: Amazon S3-backed, web-wide analytics platform
- Internal: cross-architecture event log aggregation & processing
Contextweb - Ad Exchange
- We use Hadoop to store ad serving logs and use it as a source for ad optimizations, analytics, reporting and machine learning.
- Currently we have a 50 machine cluster with 400 cores and about 140TB raw storage. Each (commodity) node has 8 cores and 16GB of RAM.
Cooliris - Cooliris transforms your browser into a lightning fast, cinematic way to browse photos and videos, both online and on your hard drive.
- We have a 15-node Hadoop cluster where each machine has 8 cores, 8 GB ram, and 3-4 TB of storage.
- We use Hadoop for all of our analytics, and we use Pig to allow PMs and non-engineers the freedom to query the data in an ad-hoc manner.
Cornell University Web Lab
- Generating web graphs on 100 nodes (dual 2.4GHz Xeon Processor, 2 GB RAM, 72GB Hard Drive)
CRS4
- Computational biology applications
- HDFS as a VM repository for virtual clusters
crowdmedia
- Crowdmedia has a 5 Node Hadoop cluster for statistical analysis
- We use Hadoop to analyse trends on Facebook and other social networks

D

Datagraph
- We use Hadoop for batch-processing large RDF datasets, in particular for indexing RDF data.
- We also use Hadoop for executing long-running offline SPARQL queries for clients.
- We use Amazon S3 and Cassandra to store input RDF datasets and output files.
- We've developed RDFgrid, a Ruby framework for map/reduce-based processing of RDF data.
- We primarily use Ruby, RDF.rb and RDFgrid to process RDF data with Hadoop Streaming.
- We primarily run Hadoop jobs on Amazon Elastic MapReduce, with cluster sizes of 1 to 20 nodes depending on the size of the dataset (hundreds of millions to billions of RDF statements).
Deepdyve
- Elastic cluster with 5-80 nodes
- We use hadoop to create our indexes of deep web content and to provide a high availability and high bandwidth storage service for index shards for our search cluster.
Detektei Berlin
- We are using Hadoop in our data mining and multimedia/internet research groups.
- 3 node cluster with 48 cores in total, 4GB RAM and 1 TB storage each.
Detikcom - Indonesia's largest news portal
- We use hadoop, pig and hbase to analyze search log, generate Most View News, generate top wordcloud, and analyze all of our logs
- Currently We use 9 nodes
DropFire
- We generate Pig Latin scripts that describe structural and semantic conversions between data contexts
- We use Hadoop to execute these scripts for production-level deployments
- Eliminates the need for explicit data and schema mappings during database integration

E

EBay
- 532 nodes cluster (8 * 532 cores, 5.3PB).
- Heavy usage of Java MapReduce, Pig, Hive, HBase
- Using it for Search optimization and Research.
Enet, 'Eleftherotypia' newspaper, Greece
- Experimental installation - storage for logs and digital assets
- Currently 5 nodes cluster
- Using hadoop for log analysis/data mining/machine learning
Enormo
- 4 nodes cluster (32 cores, 1TB).
- We use Hadoop to filter and index our listings, removing exact duplicates and grouping similar ones.
- We plan to use Pig very shortly to produce statistics.
ESPOL University (Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral) in Guayaquil, Ecuador
- 4 nodes proof-of-concept cluster.
- We use Hadoop in a Data-Intensive Computing capstone course. The course projects cover topics like information retrieval, machine learning, social network analysis, business intelligence, and network security.
- The students use on-demand clusters launched using Amazon's EC2 and EMR services, thanks to its AWS in Education program.
ETH Zurich Systems Group
- We are using Hadoop in a course that we are currently teaching: "Massively Parallel Data Analysis with MapReduce". The course projects are based on real use-cases from biological data analysis.
- Cluster hardware: 16 x (Quad-core Intel Xeon, 8GB RAM, 1.5 TB Hard-Disk)
Eyealike - Visual Media Search Platform
- Facial similarity and recognition across large datasets.
- Image content based advertising and auto-tagging for social media.
- Image based video copyright protection.

F

Facebook
- We use Hadoop to store copies of internal log and dimension data sources and use it as a source for reporting/analytics and machine learning.
- Currently we have 2 major clusters: * A 1100-machine cluster with 8800 cores and about 12 PB raw storage.
  - A 300-machine cluster with 2400 cores and about 3 PB raw storage.
  - Each (commodity) node has 8 cores and 12 TB of storage.
  - We are heavy users of both streaming as well as the Java apis. We have built a higher level data warehousing framework using these features called Hive (see the http://hadoop.apache.org/hive/). We have also developed a FUSE implementation over hdfs.
FOX Audience Network
- 40 machine cluster (8 cores/machine, 2TB/machine storage)
- 70 machine cluster (8 cores/machine, 3TB/machine storage)
- 30 machine cluster (8 cores/machine, 4TB/machine storage)
- Use for log analysis, data mining and machine learning
Forward3D
- 5 machine cluster (8 cores/machine, 5TB/machine storage)
- Existing 19 virtual machine cluster (2 cores/machine 30TB storage)
- Predominantly Hive and Streaming API based jobs (~20,000 jobs a week) using our Ruby library, or see the canonical WordCount example.
- Daily batch ETL with a slightly modified clojure-hadoop
- Log analysis
- Data mining
- Machine learning
Freestylers - Image retrieval engine
- We Japanese company Freestylers use Hadoop to build the image processing environment for image-based product recommendation system mainly on Amazon EC2, from April 2009.
- Our Hadoop environment produces the original database for fast access from our web application.
- We also uses Hadoop to analyzing similarities of user's behavior.

G

GIS.FCU
- Feng Chia University
- 3 machine cluster (4 cores, 1TB/machine)
- storeage for sensor data
Google
- University Initiative to Address Internet-Scale Computing Challenges
Gruter. Corp.
- 30 machine cluster (4 cores, 1TB~2TB/machine storage)
- storage for blog data and web documents
- used for data indexing by MapReduce
- link analyzing and Machine Learning by MapReduce
GumGum
- 9 node cluster (Amazon EC2 c1.xlarge)
- Nightly MapReduce jobs on Amazon Elastic MapReduce process data stored in S3
- MapReduce jobs written in Groovy use Hadoop Java APIs
- Image and advertising analytics

H

Hadoop Korean User Group, a Korean Local Community Team Page.
- 50 node cluster In the Korea university network environment. * Pentium 4 PC, HDFS 4TB Storage
Used for development projects * Retrieving and Analyzing Biomedical Knowledge
- Latent Semantic Analysis, Collaborative Filtering
Hotels & Accommodation
- 3 machine cluster (4 cores/machine, 2TB/machine)
- Hadoop for data for search and aggregation
- Hbase hosting
Hulu
- 13 machine cluster (8 cores/machine, 4TB/machine)
- Log storage and analysis
- Hbase hosting
Hundeshagen
- 6 node cluster (each node has: 4 dual core CPUs, 1,5TB storage, 4GB RAM, RedHat OS)
- Using Hadoop for our high speed data mining applications in corporation with Online Scheidung
Hadoop Taiwan User Group
Hipotecas y euribor
- Evolución del euribor y valor actual
- Simulador de hipotecas en crisis económica
Hosting Habitat
- We use a customised version of Hadoop and Nutch in a currently experimental 6 node/Dual Core cluster environment.
- What we crawl are our clients Websites and from the information we gather. We fingerprint old and non updated software packages in that shared hosting environment. We can then inform our clients that they have old and non updated software running after matching a signature to a Database. With that information we know which sites would require patching as a free and courtesy service to protect the majority of users. Without the technologies of Nutch and Hadoop this would be a far harder to accomplish task.

I

IBM
- Blue Cloud Computing Clusters
- University Initiative to Address Internet-Scale Computing Challenges
ICCS
- We are using Hadoop and Nutch to crawl Blog posts and later process them. Hadoop is also beginning to be used in our teaching and general research activities on natural language processing and machine learning.
IIIT, Hyderabad
- We use hadoop for Information Retrieval and Extraction research projects. Also working on map-reduce scheduling research for multi-job environments.
- Our cluster sizes vary from 10 to 30 nodes, depending on the jobs. Heterogenous nodes with most being Quad 6600s, 4GB RAM and 1TB disk per node. Also some nodes with dual core and single core configurations.
ImageShack
- From TechCrunch:
  - Rather than put ads in or around the images it hosts, Levin is working on harnessing all the data his service generates about content consumption (perhaps to better target advertising on ImageShack or to syndicate that targetting data to ad networks). Like Google and Yahoo, he is deploying the open-source Hadoop software to create a massive distributed supercomputer, but he is using it to analyze all the data he is collecting.
IMVU
- We use Hadoop to analyze our virtual economy
- We also use Hive to access our trove of operational data to inform product development decisions around improving user experience and retention as well as meeting revenue targets
- Our data is stored in s3 and pulled into our clusters of up to 4 m1.large EC2 instances. Our total data volume is on the order of 5Tb
Infolinks
- We use Hadoop to analyze production logs and to provide various statistics on our In-Text advertising network.
- We also use Hadoop/HBase to process user interactions with advertisements and to optimize ad selection.
Information Sciences Institute (ISI)
- Used Hadoop and 18 nodes/52 cores to plot the entire internet.
Infochimps
- 30 node AWS EC2 cluster (varying instance size, currently EBS-backed) managed by Chef & Poolparty running Hadoop 0.20.2+228, Pig 0.5.0+30, Azkaban 0.04, Wukong
- Used for ETL & data analysis on terascale datasets, especially social network data (on api.infochimps.com)
Iterend
- using 10 node hdfs cluster to store and process retrieved data on.

J

Joost
- Session analysis and report generation
Journey Dynamics
- Using Hadoop MapReduce to analyse billions of lines of GPS data to create TrafficSpeeds, our accurate traffic speed forecast product.

K

Kalooga - Kalooga is a discovery service for image galleries.
- Uses Hadoop, Hbase, Chukwa and Pig on a 20-node cluster for crawling, analysis and events processing.
Katta - Katta serves large Lucene indexes in a grid environment.
- Uses Hadoop FileSytem, RPC and IO
Koubei.com Large local community and local search at China.
- Using Hadoop to process apache log, analyzing user's action and click flow and the links click with any specified page in site and more. Using Hadoop to process whole price data user input with map/reduce.
Krugle
- Source code search engine uses Hadoop and Nutch.

L

Language, Interaction and Computation Laboratory (Clic - CIMeC)
- Hardware: 10 nodes, each node has 8 core and 8GB of RAM
- Studying verbal and non-verbal communication.
Last.fm
- 44 nodes
- Dual quad-core Xeon L5520 (Nehalem) @ 2.27GHz, 16GB RAM, 4TB/node storage.
- Used for charts calculation, log analysis, A/B testing
- 20 dual quad-core nodes, 32GB RAM , 5x1TB
- Used for user profile analysis, statistical analysis,cookie level reporting tools.
- Some Hive but mainly automated Java MapReduce jobs that process ~150MM new events/day.
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center - Bioinformatics Group This is the cancer center at UNC Chapel Hill. We are using Hadoop/HBase for databasing and analyzing Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data produced for the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project and other groups. This development is based on the SeqWare open source project which includes SeqWare Query Engine, a database and web service built on top of HBase that stores sequence data types. Our prototype cluster includes:
- 8 dual quad core nodes running CentOS
- total of 48TB of HDFS storage
- HBase & Hadoop version 0.20
Legolas Media
LinkedIn
- We have multiple grids divided up based upon purpose. * Hardware:
  - 120 Nehalem-based Sun x4275, with 2x4 cores, 24GB RAM, 8x1TB SATA
  - 580 Westmere-based HP SL 170x, with 2x4 cores, 24GB RAM, 6x2TB SATA
  - 1200 Westmere-based SuperMicro X8DTT-H, with 2x6 cores, 24GB RAM, 6x2TB SATA
  - Software: * CentOS 5.5 -> RHEL 6.1
    - Sun JDK 1.6.0_14 -> Sun JDK 1.6.0_20 -> Sun JDK 1.6.0_26
    - Apache Hadoop 0.20.2+patches -> Apache Hadoop 0.20.204+patches
    - Pig 0.9 heavily customized
    - Azkaban for scheduling
    - Hive, Avro, Kafka, and other bits and pieces...
We use these things for discovering People You May Know and other fun facts.
Lookery
- We use Hadoop to process clickstream and demographic data in order to create web analytic reports.
- Our cluster runs across Amazon's EC2 webservice and makes use of the streaming module to use Python for most operations.
Lotame
- Using Hadoop and Hbase for storage, log analysis, and pattern discovery/analysis.

M

Markt24
- We use Hadoop to filter user behaviour, recommendations and trends from externals sites
- Using zkpython
- Used EC2, no using many small machines (8GB Ram, 4 cores, 1TB)
MicroCode
- 18 node cluster (Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 1TB/node storage)
- Financial data for search and aggregation
- Customer Relation Management data for search and aggregation
Media 6 Degrees
- 20 node cluster (dual quad cores, 16GB, 6TB)
- Used log processing, data analysis and machine learning.
- Focus is on social graph analysis and ad optimization.
- Use a mix of Java, Pig and Hive.
Mercadolibre.com
- 20 nodes cluster (12 * 20 cores, 32GB, 53.3TB)
- Custemers log on on-line apps
- Operations log processing
- Use java, pig, hive, oozie
MobileAnalytic.TV
- We use Hadoop to develop MapReduce algorithms:
  - Information retrival and analytics
  - Machine generated content - documents, text, audio, & video
  - Natural Language Processing
- Project portfolio includes: * Natural Language Processing
  - Mobile Social Network Hacking
  - Web Crawlers/Page scrapping
  - Text to Speech
  - Machine generated Audio & Video with remuxing
  - Automatic PDF creation & IR
2 node cluster (Windows Vista/CYGWIN, & CentOS) for developing MapReduce programs.
MyLife
- 18 node cluster (Quad-Core AMD Opteron 2347, 1TB/node storage)
- Powers data for search and aggregation
MetrixCloud - provides commercial support, installation, and hosting of Hadoop Clusters. Contact Us.

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NAVTEQ Media Solutions
- We use Hadoop/Mahout to process user interactions with advertisements to optimize ad selection.
Neptune
- Another Bigtable cloning project using Hadoop to store large structured data set.
- 200 nodes(each node has: 2 dual core CPUs, 2TB storage, 4GB RAM)
NetSeer -
- Up to 1000 instances on Amazon EC2
- Data storage in Amazon S3
- 50 node cluster in Coloc
- Used for crawling, processing, serving and log analysis
The New York Times
- Large scale image conversions
- Used EC2 to run hadoop on a large virtual cluster
Ning
- We use Hadoop to store and process our log files
- We rely on Apache Pig for reporting, analytics, Cascading for machine learning, and on a proprietary JavaScript API for ad-hoc queries
- We use commodity hardware, with 8 cores and 16 GB of RAM per machine

O

optivo - Email marketing software
- We use Hadoop to aggregate and analyse email campaigns and user interactions.
- Developement is based on the github repository.

P

Papertrail - Hosted syslog and app log management
- Hosted syslog and app log service can feed customer logs into Hadoop for their analysis (usually with Hive)
- Most customers load gzipped TSVs from S3 (which are uploaded nightly) into Amazon Elastic MapReduce
PARC - Used Hadoop to analyze Wikipedia conflicts paper.
Performable - Web Analytics Software
- We use Hadoop to process web clickstream, marketing, CRM, & email data in order to create multi-channel analytic reports.
- Our cluster runs on Amazon's EC2 webservice and makes use of Python for most of our codebase.
Pharm2Phork Project - Agricultural Traceability
- Using Hadoop on EC2 to process observation messages generated by RFID/Barcode readers as items move through supply chain.
- Analysis of BPEL generated log files for monitoring and tuning of workflow processes.
Powerset / Microsoft - Natural Language Search
- up to 400 instances on Amazon EC2
- data storage in Amazon S3
- Microsoft is now contributing to HBase, a Hadoop subproject ( announcement).
Pressflip - Personalized Persistent Search
- Using Hadoop on EC2 to process documents from a continuous web crawl and distributed training of support vector machines
- Using HDFS for large archival data storage
Pronux
- 4 nodes cluster (32 cores, 1TB).
- We use Hadoop for searching and analysis of millions of bookkeeping postings
- Also used as a proof of concept cluster for a cloud based ERP system
PokerTableStats
- 2 nodes cluster (16 cores, 500GB).
- We use Hadoop for analyzing poker players game history and generating gameplay related players statistics
Portabilité
- 50 node cluster in Colo.
- Also used as a proof of concept cluster for a cloud based ERP syste.
PSG Tech, Coimbatore, India
- Multiple alignment of protein sequences helps to determine evolutionary linkages and to predict molecular structures. The dynamic nature of the algorithm coupled with data and compute parallelism of hadoop data grids improves the accuracy and speed of sequence alignment. Parallelism at the sequence and block level reduces the time complexity of MSA problems. Scalable nature of Hadoop makes it apt to solve large scale alignment problems.
- Our cluster size varies from 5 to 10 nodes. Cluster nodes vary from 2950 Quad Core Rack Server, with 2x6MB Cache and 4 x 500 GB SATA Hard Drive to E7200 / E7400 processors with 4 GB RAM and 160 GB HDD.

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Quantcast
- 3000 cores, 3500TB. 1PB+ processing each day.
- Hadoop scheduler with fully custom data path / sorter
- Significant contributions to KFS filesystem

R

Rackspace
- 30 node cluster (Dual-Core, 4-8GB RAM, 1.5TB/node storage)
- Parses and indexes logs from email hosting system for search: http://blog.racklabs.com/?p=66
Rakuten - Japan's online shopping mall
- 69 node cluster
- We use Hadoop to analyze logs and mine data for recommender system and so on.
Rapleaf
- 80 node cluster (each node has: 2 quad core CPUs, 4TB storage, 16GB RAM)
- We use hadoop to process data relating to people on the web
- We also involved with Cascading to help simplify how our data flows through various processing stages
Recruit
- Hardware: 50 nodes (2*4cpu 2TB*4 disk 16GB RAM each)
- We use Hadoop(Hive) to analyze logs and mine data for recommendation.
reisevision
- We use Hadoop for our internal search
Redpoll
- Hardware: 35 nodes (2*4cpu 10TB disk 16GB RAM each)
- We intend to parallelize some traditional classification, clustering algorithms like Naive Bayes, K-Means, EM so that can deal with large-scale data sets.
Resu.me
- Hardware: 5 nodes
- We use Hadoop to process user resume data and run algorithms for our recommendation engine.
RightNow Technologies - Powering Great Experiences
- 16 node cluster (each node has: 2 quad core CPUs, 6TB storage, 24GB RAM)
- We use hadoop for log and usage analysis
- We predominantly leverage Hive and HUE for data access

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SARA, Netherlands
- SARA has initiated a Proof-of-Concept project to evaluate the Hadoop software stack for scientific use.
Search Wikia
- A project to help develop open source social search tools. We run a 125 node hadoop cluster.
SEDNS - Security Enhanced DNS Group
- We are gathering world wide DNS data in order to discover content distribution networks and configuration issues utilizing Hadoop DFS and MapRed.
Sematext International
- We use Hadoop to store and analyze large amounts search and performance data for our Search Analytics and Scalable Performance Monitoring services.
SLC Security Services LLC
- 18 node cluster (each node has: 4 dual core CPUs, 1TB storage, 4GB RAM, RedHat OS)
- We use Hadoop for our high speed data mining applications
Sling Media
- We have a core Analytics group that is using a 10-Node cluster running RedHat OS
- Hadoop is used as an infrastructure to run MapReduce (MR) algorithms on a number of raw data
- Raw data ingest happens hourly. Raw data comes from hardware and software systems out in the field
- Ingested and processed data is stored into a relational DB and rolled up using Hive/Pig
- Plan to implement Mahout to build recommendation engine
Socialmedia.com
- 14 node cluster (each node has: 2 dual core CPUs, 2TB storage, 8GB RAM)
- We use hadoop to process log data and perform on-demand analytics
Spadac.com
- We are developing the MrGeo (Map/Reduce Geospatial) application to allow our users to bring cloud computing to geospatial processing.
- We use HDFS and MapReduce to store, process, and index geospatial imagery and vector data.
- MrGeo is soon to be open sourced as well.
Specific Media
- We use Hadoop for log aggregation, reporting and analysis
- Two Hadoop clusters, all nodes 16 cores, 32 GB RAM
- Cluster 1: 27 nodes (total 432 cores, 544GB RAM, 280TB storage)
- Cluster 2: 111 nodes (total 1776 cores, 3552GB RAM, 1.1PB storage)
- We contribute to Hadoop and related projects where possible, see http://code.google.com/p/bigstreams/ and http://code.google.com/p/hadoop-gpl-packing/
Stampede Data Solutions (Stampedehost.com)
- Hosted Hadoop data warehouse solution provider
StumbleUpon (StumbleUpon.com)
- We use HBase to store our recommendation information and to run other operations. We have HBase committers on staff.

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Taragana - Web 2.0 Product development and outsourcing services
- We are using 16 consumer grade computers to create the cluster, connected by 100 Mbps network.
- Used for testing ideas for blog and other data mining.
The Lydia News Analysis Project - Stony Brook University
- We are using Hadoop on 17-node and 103-node clusters of dual-core nodes to process and extract statistics from over 1000 U.S. daily newspapers as well as historical archives of the New York Times and other sources.
Tailsweep - Ad network for blogs and social media
- 8 node cluster (Xeon Quad Core 2.4GHz, 8GB RAM, 500GB/node Raid 1 storage)
- Used as a proof of concept cluster
- Handling i.e. data mining and blog crawling
Technical analysis and Stock Research
- Generating stock analysis on 23 nodes (dual 2.4GHz Xeon, 2 GB RAM, 36GB Hard Drive)
Tegatai
- Collection and analysis of Log, Threat, Risk Data and other Security Information on 32 nodes (8-Core Opteron 6128 CPU, 32 GB RAM, 12 TB Storage per node)
Telefonica Research
- We use Hadoop in our data mining and user modeling, multimedia, and internet research groups.
- 6 node cluster with 96 total cores, 8GB RAM and 2 TB storage per machine.
Telenav
- 60-Node cluster for our Location-Based Content Processing including machine learning algorithms for Statistical Categorization, Deduping, Aggregation & Curation (Hardware: 2.5 GHz Quad-core Xeon, 4GB RAM, 13TB HDFS storage).
- Private cloud for rapid server-farm setup for stage and test environments.(Using Elastic N-Node cluster)
- Public cloud for exploratory projects that require rapid servers for scalability and computing surges (Using Elastic N-Node cluster)
Tianya
- We use Hadoop for log analysis.
TubeMogul
- We use Hadoop HDFS, Map/Reduce, Hive and Hbase
- We manage over 300 TB of HDFS data across four Amazon EC2 Availability Zone
tufee
- We use Hadoop for searching and indexing
Twitter
- We use Hadoop to store and process tweets, log files, and many other types of data generated across Twitter. We use Cloudera's CDH2 distribution of Hadoop, and store all data as compressed LZO files.
- We use both Scala and Java to access Hadoop's MapReduce APIs
- We use Pig heavily for both scheduled and ad-hoc jobs, due to its ability to accomplish a lot with few statements.
- We employ committers on Pig, Avro, Hive, and Cassandra, and contribute much of our internal Hadoop work to opensource (see hadoop-lzo)
- For more on our use of hadoop, see the following presentations: Hadoop and Pig at Twitter and Protocol Buffers and Hadoop at Twitter
Tynt
- We use Hadoop to assemble web publishers' summaries of what users are copying from their websites, and to analyze user engagement on the web.
- We use Pig and custom Java map-reduce code, as well as chukwa.
- We have 94 nodes (752 cores) in our clusters, as of July 2010, but the number grows regularly.

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Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas (Grupo GICOGE/Grupo Linux UD GLUD/Grupo GIGA
- 5 node low-profile cluster. We use Hadoop to support the research project: Territorial Intelligence System of Bogota City.
University of Glasgow - Terrier Team
- 30 nodes cluster (Xeon Quad Core 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, 1TB/node storage). We use Hadoop to facilitate information retrieval research & experimentation, particularly for TREC, using the Terrier IR platform. The open source release of Terrier includes large-scale distributed indexing using Hadoop Map Reduce.
University of Maryland
- We are one of six universities participating in IBM/Google's academic cloud computing initiative. Ongoing research and teaching efforts include projects in machine translation, language modeling, bioinformatics, email analysis, and image processing.
University of Nebraska Lincoln, Holland Computing Center
- We currently run one medium-sized Hadoop cluster (1.6PB) to store and serve up physics data for the computing portion of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment. This requires a filesystem which can download data at multiple Gbps and process data at an even higher rate locally. Additionally, several of our students are involved in research projects on Hadoop.
University of Freiburg - Databases and Information Systems
- 10 nodes cluster (Dell PowerEdge R200 with Xeon Dual Core 3.16GHz, 4GB RAM, 3TB/node storage).
- Our goal is to develop techniques for the Semantic Web that take advantage of MapReduce (Hadoop) and its scaling-behavior to keep up with the growing proliferation of semantic data.
- RDFPath is an expressive RDF path language for querying large RDF graphs with MapReduce.
- PigSPARQL is a translation from SPARQL to Pig Latin allowing to execute SPARQL queries on large RDF graphs with MapReduce.

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Veoh
- We use a small Hadoop cluster to reduce usage data for internal metrics, for search indexing and for recommendation data.
Bygga hus
- We use a Hadoop cluster to for search and indexing for our projects.
Visible Measures Corporation uses Hadoop as a component in our Scalable Data Pipeline, which ultimately powers VisibleSuite and other products. We use Hadoop to aggregate, store, and analyze data related to in-stream viewing behavior of Internet video audiences. Our current grid contains more than 128 CPU cores and in excess of 100 terabytes of storage, and we plan to grow that substantially during 2008.
VK Solutions
- We use a small Hadoop cluster in the scope of our general research activities at VK Labs to get a faster data access from web applications.
- We also use Hadoop for filtering and indexing listing, processing log analysis, and for recommendation data.

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Web Alliance
- We use Hadoop for our internal search engine optimization (SEO) tools. It allows us to store, index, search data in a much faster way.
- We also use it for logs analysis and trends prediction.
WorldLingo
- Hardware: 44 servers (each server has: 2 dual core CPUs, 2TB storage, 8GB RAM)
- Each server runs Xen with one Hadoop/HBase instance and another instance with web or application servers, giving us 88 usable virtual machines.
- We run two separate Hadoop/HBase clusters with 22 nodes each.
- Hadoop is primarily used to run HBase and Map/Reduce jobs scanning over the HBase tables to perform specific tasks.
- HBase is used as a scalable and fast storage back end for millions of documents.
- Currently we store 12million documents with a target of 450million in the near future.

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Y

Yahoo!
- More than 100,000 CPUs in >40,000 computers running Hadoop
- Our biggest cluster: 4500 nodes (2*4cpu boxes w 4*1TB disk & 16GB RAM)
  - Used to support research for Ad Systems and Web Search
  - Also used to do scaling tests to support development of Hadoop on larger clusters
- Our Blog - Learn more about how we use Hadoop.
- >60% of Hadoop Jobs within Yahoo are Pig jobs.

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Zvents

10 node cluster (Dual-Core AMD Opteron 2210, 4GB RAM, 1TB/node storage)
Run Naive Bayes classifiers in parallel over crawl data to discover event information

stock exchange open source it's messaging

2011-11-04T23:12:00.003+02:00

NYSE Technologies, the commercial tech arm of the stock exchange, has turned its middleware API over to Open Source. It said the move would streamline the implementation of new trading technology solutions by provididing a simple, consistent API.
The software which has been handed over to The LInux Foundation is the NYSE Technologies’ Middleware Agnostic Messaging API, known lovingly as MAMA. Now it will be known as OpenMAMA and governed by a steering committee of such finance industry luminaries as J.P. Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, EMC, Exegy and Fixnetix among others.
“NYSE Technologies’ vision has always been to create a new breed of capital markets community that benefits from our extensive global network and utilizes the best, most innovative technologies from a range of service providers, not just ourselves,” said Stanley Young, CEO, NYSE Technologies. “Launching OpenMAMA through the Linux Foundation is another step toward achieving that goal. Through the industry steering committee, we are positioning ourselves alongside our peers and customers to become expert consultants for open sourced capital markets technology. We have created a vibrant customer community of over 150 market participants using MAMA^T and now with OpenMAMA, customers and firms everywhere will benefit from third-party contributors creating an even richer and more compelling API.”
This builds on the June announcement
from NYSE Technologies that it was developing a community around its Mahwah, NJ data center and a second data center in the UK.
MAMA was already a pretty open platform for distributing normalized market data that connected to Tibco, 29West/Informatica, TCP/IP and several other IPC idioms. Brian Doherty, managing director at NYSE Technologies, said takeup of MOMA was slower than the company expected because users feared vendor lock-in.
Michael Schonberg, who wrote the initial version of MAMA for Wombat before it was acquired by NYSE, wrote in his blog:
“The initial release which is available today consists of the MAMA C API for Linux only; however, rest assured that we intend to open the entire MAMA code base including C++, Java (JNI), and .NET bindings as well as Windows and Solaris support over the next few months. We will provide the additional components and functionality incrementally with the goal of completing the process in the first quarter of 2012. In the same time frame we will also open source our MAMDA API as OpenMAMDA.”

Indian Government Goes More Open Source

2011-07-09T15:35:00.001+02:00

Governments across the globe are going open source, other than those who are either close to Microsoft or who have been bought by them. Emerging economies such as India and Brazil know the value of open source It boosts local economy instead of filling the pockets of multi-national companies who have little or no interest in the development of the region.
The government of India, despite desperate measures from companies like Microsoft has always been pro-free software or open source. The government has prepared a draft for the "Policy on Device Drivers for Procurement of Hardware for e-Governance".

The goal of the policy is to to provide citizens with e-Governance services, which are technology-neutral, cost effective, interoperable and vendor-neutral.

The draft [PDF] exposes an inherent problem in offering such services in the manner mentioned above, "... while implementing such systems, there is a possibility of non-availability of Device Drivers for all General Purpose Operating Systems (OS)."
This lead the government to form a policy for procurement of Computers and associated Peripherals to empower the implementation of e-Governance projects with neutrality to all General Purpose OS.

"The Policy provides the guidelines for the procurement of Hardware (Computers and Peripherals) for e-Governance applications which can work on any General Purpose OS and provide a platform-neutral framework for their procurement. This will also ensure smooth migration and porting of applications across General Purpose OS."

The Policy shall be applicable in the procurement of computers and associated peripherals for all new e-Governance projects of GoI from the date it comes into effect.

The Policy shall be applicable to existing e-Governance projects also, when the existing Computers and associated Peripherals are upgraded / augmented by procuring new Computers and Peripherals.

The OEMs offering solutions to the GoI should guaranteed and ensure that:

The Computers shall be capable of running on all General Purpose Operating Systems(OS)
OEMs shall provide Drivers for Computers and Peripherals, which are capable of running on all General Purpose OS.
The Drivers of Computers and Peripherals for GNU/Linux (one of the General Purpose OS) shall satisfy any of the following conditions:
The source code, build procedure and installation instructions for the Drivers must be made available as per any of the Open Source Software (OSS) Licenses listed in Part-IV. Computers and Peripherals must be operational using these Drivers in the latest stable Linux-Kernel.
The source code, build procedure and installation instructions for the Drivers must comply with LSB-3.0 or higher versions and accepted by any of the Linux-Distributions.
In case only binaries are made available for the Drivers, then they shall be Linux-Compatible; in addition, kernel dependent binaries must adhere to the specifications of the latest stable Linux-Kernel.

The open source licences the government is looking for are clearly inspired by the vision of Free Software Foundation. According to the draft, the licence that the Government of India considers Open Source are the ones which "gives freedom to copy, modify and redistribute driver source code without any restrictions".
Unfortunately, we don't see the same desire for open source in US policies. Unlike India, most US government offices are reported to be running decade old Windows 98 machines with IE5, running on top of it.
Will the US learn any lessons from the IT superpower and instead of working for the welfare of the corporations, with laws such as DCMA and Software patents, start working towards the welfare of THE PEOPLE?

Open Source Hardware

2011-07-02T21:05:00.001+02:00

I wrote before on Open Source hardware before named Arduino Link is h3r3

There is another Open Source hardware project called Dangerous Prototypes Link is h3r3

This Project created an Open source hardware every month

Don't stop anonymizing data

2011-06-22T23:05:00.001+02:00

Canidan Privacy Expert Recommends anonymizing data, So I recommend www.urvpn.com to anonymize your internet traffic
Link to urvpn.com is h3r3

Link to the Reference Link on the importance of anonymizing Data is h3r3

Quoted:

Canadian privacy experts have issued a new report today that strongly backs the practice of de-identification as a key element in the protection of personal information. The joint paper from Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, and Dr. Khaled El Emam, the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the University of Ottawa and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, comes as some privacy policy makers increasingly question the value of de-identification.

OpenOffice is back to the Community

2011-06-18T17:47:00.000+02:00

Oracle Donates Open Office code to Apache foundation to be under Apache License
The Document Foundation would welcome the reuniting of the OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice projects into a single community of equals in the wake of the departure of Oracle," TDF said in a statement. "The step Oracle has taken today was no doubt taken in good faith, but does not appear to directly achieve this goal.

Ref. URL: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/communication-breakdown-10000030/oracle-donates-openofficeorg-to-apache-foundation-10022593/?tag=mncol;txt

Android Developer Challenge — Sub-Saharan Africa

2011-05-02T19:36:00.000+02:00

Google published about a new competition for Android Programmers, if you create a killer application for Android you will be rewarded 25KUSD. Details and link are below

Competition Overview

Welcome to the Android Developer Challenge, Sub Saharan Africa! You can participate by developing a killer application built on Android. The sections below provide information about the types of applications you can enter, as well as the contest information and dates.
Developers submit their apps to one of three specially-designated ADC categories beginning June 1st at 12 AM GMT. An application may only be submitted to a single category.

Timeline

April 14th: Competition begins.
June 1st: App submissions open.
July 1st: First round submissions are due at 11:59 PM GMT.
July 15th: Finalist applications announced.
August 30th: Finalist applications are due at 11:59 PM GMT.
September 12th: Winners are announced.

Reference Link is h3r3

How to downgrade your Android Phone

2011-04-16T00:09:00.000+02:00

This Post shows how to you can downgrade your Android Phone Operating System and I will use Acer BeTouch E130 as my show case

1) You need to have the old Android:
This is easily done through searching google , or If if you already have it since earlier download

2) Follow the regular Setup procedure for your phone manufacture install
you will find the application extracted and there is a file ends/with extension "nb0"
This is the ROM Image File, Once you have it you can follow the below steps , if not please manage to get the desired ROM Image of your desired Android

3) Download RUT (Rom Update Tool) from
http://wiki.geeksphone.com/en/index.php?title=Update_the_ROM_using_RUT
Link is h3r3

4) Please start the RUT application (Do not forget to reboot after installing RUT to make sure you have the required USB Driver (usually you can skip the reboot , if you managed to have successful connections over USB to your Android Mobile Phone , in this Example it is Acer BeTouch E130)

5) Browse to the ROM Image and Click Next

Please follow the below steps ACCURATELY

6) Power off your Android Mobile Phone (Acer BeTouch E130 in this Example)

7) Remove the Battery , that ensures the boot sequence desired to start the ROM Upgrade and ensures your ability to Downgrade your Android Phone and in mean while that makes you able to install the Android Image EVEN if your Mobile Operator upgrade software do not have it or allows it

7) Place the battery Again

8) Click Call + DEL button on the Andoird Mobile Phone Acer BeTouch E130 (Please do not power on your Acer BeTouch E130/Android Phone)

9) Connect your USB Cable to the Mobile and Phone

9) Click Next on RUT application, it should sense that your mobile phone is connected overUSB

the Android ROM Image will be installed on your Mobile Phone easily

This Post Allows you to do the following
1) Manually Install your desired Android image
2) Force Image Downgrade of your Android Phone
3) Install Android Image even if your Operator does not provide it
4) Remove some undesired Arabic Applications on your Android phone if you bought it from Middle East

63 Open Source Business Software

2011-04-10T21:48:00.000+02:00

Below list of Open source software that we need in business , categorized and supported Operating systems are mentioned

Open Source Billing

1) jBillingThis software for ISPs, telecoms, ASPs, media, software developers and other firms who charge for subscription services offers a highly scalable, robust and flexible Web-based billing solution. The complete software is available for free; support and other services are available for a fee. Operating System: OS Independent.

Open Source Business Intelligence

2) Jaspersoft Jaspersoft's Web site boasts that it is "the world's most widely used business intelligence software." The company offers two separate products: JasperReports Server, which allows non-developers to create their own reports and dashboards, and Jaspersoft BI, which incorporates JasperReports Server with ETL and OLAP features. Both are available in free community editions or paid versions that add extra features and support. Operating System: OS Independent.3) Palo BI Suite
Used by more than 45,000 companies and downloaded more than 400 times a day, Palo adds online analytical processing capabilities to Microsoft Excel. It's available in either a community or a premium version, which includes more features and support. Operating System: OS Independent.
4) Pentaho
The "open source business intelligence leader," Pentaho offers enterprises the opportunity to cut their BI licensing costs by 90 percent. In addition to the free community edition, it's available in a variety of paid versions, including an on-demand SaaS version. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
5) OpenReports
This Web-based reporting tool boasts an open architecture, ease of use, and powerful reporting capabilities. It's available in an open source version or in a professional version. Operating System: OS Independent.
6)RapidMiner
"The world-leading open-source system for data and text mining," RapidMiner combines Data Integration, Analytical ETL, Data Analysis, and Reporting in a single solution. The enterprise versions offer an extended list of features, professional support and maintenance. Operating System: OS Independent.

Open Source Business Process Management

7) Bonita Open SolutionJava-based Bonita Open Solution consists of three separate parts: a process modeling tool, a BPM and workflow engine, and the user interface. The full version of the software is free, with training and three different levels of support available for a fee. Operating System: OS Independent.
8) ProcessMaker
Available in open source, enterprise, or cloud editions, ProcessMaker helps companies like Toyota, Lenovo and Honeywell simplify and optimize workflows. It allows companies to reduce their paperwork, become more efficient and improve outcomes. Operating System: Windows, Linux.

Open Source Cloud Infrastructure

9) Cloud.com CloudStackCloud.com provides CloudStack on an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) basis to companies that want to build and deploy private clouds. While the community version of the software is available under a GPL license, the enterprise and service provider editions include some proprietary code. Operating System: Linux.
10) Scalr
Similar to (but much less expensive than) RightScale, this open source cloud computing platform makes it easier to scale Web sites and Web apps up and down as needed. The development edition is available for free for those with one server farm and up to eight servers. Production and mission critical subscriptions are available for those with larger needs. Operating System: Linux.

Open Source Content Management

11) AlfrescoAlfresco's open source solution offers document management, Web content management and collaboration features. It's commercial products add some records management features as well as enterprise-grade support. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
12) Liferay
Recently named the "most popular Java CMS," Liferay offers portal, publishing, content management and collaboration solutions. Well-known users include Cisco, Sesame Street, T-Mobile, Barclays and others. It offers both an open source and a supported enterprise version of its software. Operating System: OS Independent.
13) Magnolia
Like many of the other items on this list, this enterprise-focused Web content management software comes in a free open source version or a paid enterprise edition. The latest update offers excellent collaboration features, including concurrent editing, comparing revisions, deletion workflow, and content translation. Operating System: Windows, Linux.
14) MindTouch
With companies like HTC, the Washington Post, HP, Novell, Autodesk and others as clients, MindTouch claims that it "makes the world's most respected social knowledge base." The MindTouch Core product is available with an open source license, while a commercially licensed version is available in on-premise or hosted versions. Operating System: Windows, Linux.

Open Source Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

15) ConcourseSuiteThis java-based app combines CRM with web content management and team collaboration features. The software can be downloaded for free or used in the cloud on an SaaS basis. The company also offers service contracts for on-premise deployments. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
16) Orange Leap
This app is designed to help non-profits manage their relationships with "constituents." The base software and the "Guru" reporting add-on are available in either community or supported versions. You can also purchase it on an SaaS basis or buy other paid add-ons. Operating System: Windows.
17) SourceTap
This very flexible sales force automation tool helps companies forecast sales, recognize trends, share information and close more deals. It offers dual licensing options, and it can also be purchased on an SaaS basis. Operating System: Windows, Linux.
18) SplendidCRM
Like many of the other apps on this list, SplendidCRM can be used on-premise or in the cloud. This Windows-centric software comes in community, professional or enterprise versions with different features and support levels for each. Operating System: Windows.

19) SugarCRM
Sugar's client list includes Avis, Coca-Cola, the state of Oregon and 7,000 other organizations, making it one of the most popular open source CRM solutions. It's available in professional and enterprise editions, each of which add more functionality to the basic open source version. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
20) vTiger
vTiger offers a full range of sales force automation, customer service, marketing, inventory management and reporting features. The full version of the software with the complete list of features is available with an open source license; support and the hosted version are available for a fee. Operating System: Windows, Linux, iOS, Android.

Open Source Databases

21) MySQLNow owned by Oracle, MySQL is "the world's most popular open source database" and is used by well-known companies like Facebook, Google, Adobe, Alcatel Lucent and Zappos. The community edition is available for free, while the standard, enterprise and cluster carrier grade editions require support fees. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.

Open Source Data Warehouse (DW)

22) Apatar
Apatar software helps companies integrate their data from various on-site and on-demand applications, including Salesforce.com, Quickbooks, and others. In addition to the free software, the company offers commercial support, training, and integration consulting services, as well as some on-demand integration services and some pre-built data integration solutions. Operating System: Windows, Linux.
23) MailArchiva
This app helps organizations meet their compliance requirements for storing e-mails long term. The enterprise edition adds a number of features not available in the open source edition, as well as offering faster performance for companies with a lot of users. Operating System: Windows, Linux.
24) Talend
The "recognized market leader in open source data integration," Talend offers a unified platform for data management that includes data integration, data quality and master data management tools. In addition to the free community versions of its products, Talend also offers paid support, training, commercial versions with additional features, and other services. Operating System: Windows, Linux, Unix.

Open Source Developer Tools

25) MonoNovell's Mono project offers .NET developers a number of cross-platform, open source development tools. Professional and enterprise editions of the some of the tools are available for purchase at the site. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
26) Sencha Touch
"The first HTML5 mobile Web app framework," SenchaTouch helps users create Web-based apps that look and feel like native iOS or Android apps. It's available under either a GPL or a commercial license depending on the needs of users. Operating System: OS independent.
27) Zend
Zend offers both a Web application server (Zend Server) and an IDE (ZendStudio) for PHP developers. Both are available in free, open source or paid versions, and the company also offers training and some additional commercial products and services. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.

Open Source Document Management Systems (DMS)

28) Epiware
Web-based Epiware combines enterprise document management capabilities with groupware functionality like a calendar, wikis and some project management capabilities. The company offers paid support for enterprise users. Operating System: Windows, Linux.
29) LogicalDOC
Designed to be very user-friendly, LogicalDOC offers a Web-based interface and mobile versions for users with smartphones. The enterprise edition adds capabilities that aren't available in the open source community edition, and a hosted version is also available. Operating System: OS Independent.
30) OpenKM
OpenKM (short for" Open Knowledge Mangement") offers a Web-based interface for managing documents at organizations of all sizes. Professional support and training can be purchased for a fee. Operating System: OS Independent.

Open Source E-Commerce

31) MagentoThe "world's fastest-growing eCommerce platform," Magento boasts more than 2.5 million downloads and more than 25 billion transactions. Additional features not included in the open source community edition are available in the paid professional and enterprise editions. Operating System: Windows, Linux.

Open Source E-mail/Collaboration/Groupware

32) CollabtiveDesigned as an alternative to Bascamp, Collabtive offers project management, time tracking and reporting features. Like Basecamp, it's also available on an SaaS basis, and the company also offers some related services. Operating System: OS Independent.
33) cyn.in
Cyn.in aims to help teams collaborate and communicate more quickly through wikis, social networks, blogs, file sharing repositories, micro blogs, discussion boards and other communication applications. It comes in three flavors: the free community edition, the on-demand SaaS version and the on-premise appliance. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
34) Feng Office
Used by more than 100,000 people, Feng Office offers e-mail, time tracking, notes, contacts, calendar, tasks, document sharing and more. Users can choose from the free open source version, an SaaS version called "FengSky," or a supported on-premise version that also includes some additional modules. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
35) Group-Office
The paid versions (both hosted and on-premise) of Group-Office include calendar, CRM, project management, e-mail, file-sharing and synchronization. The open-source version offers slightly fewer features. Operating System: OS Independent.

36) Scalix
Used by more than 1,300 corporations with more than 2 million mailboxes, Scalix offers an alternative to a Microsoft Exchange server. It offers e-mail and calendaring, with excellent Outlook support. It's available in a free community version or paid small business, enterprise or hosting versions. Operating System: Linux.
37) Zimbra
The Zimbra Collaboration Suite calls itself "the world’s most sophisticated web application suite" and describes itself as "a next-generation Microsoft Exchange server." The open source server and the desktop client are available for free; the appliance and network editions require a fee. Operating System: Linux, Unix, OS X.

Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

38) Compiere ERP + CRM Business SolutionThis ERP solution for multi-site, multi-national corporations offers dashboards, reporting, customer history, and many other features. It can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud via Amazon's EC2. The community version is completely open source, while the professional and enterprise versions add more functionality and paid support with a commercial license. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.
39) Open ERP
This ERP suite offers CRM, purchasing, manufacturing, warehouse management, project management, accounting, human resources and marketing capabilities. Open ERP charges no fees for licenses, but does charge for support and on-site deployment services or SaaS subscriptions. Operating System: Windows, Linux.
40) opentaps
Opentaps proclaims itself "the most advanced open source ERP + CRM solution." The full software is available with an open source license, or you can purchase a subscription to the Professional Edition, which includes updates and technical support. Operating System: Windows, Linux.
41) ]project-open[
The most popular open source ERP solution in Germany, project-open combines ERP features with project management features. The base software is available on an open-source basis, while additional modules, support and other services are available for a fee. It's also available on an SaaS basis. Operating System: OS Independent.
42) xTuple
xTuple's software helps businesses of all sizes keep track of sales, accounting, customers suppliers, inventory, manufacturing and distribution. The PostBooks edition of the software is available with an open source or a commercial license, and the Standard and Manufacturing editions are available with a commercial license only. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X, mobile OSes.

Open Source Gateway Security/UTM Appliances

43) Endian FirewallWith Endian's open source software, you can turn any old PC into a unified threat management appliance to protect your network from all kinds of threats. Or you can purchase hardware or supported virtual appliances based on the same software. Operating System: Linux.
44) NetCop UTM
NetCop UTM combines the best open source security products into a single UTM solution. It comes in three versions: Free (for up to 5 users), SME (for less than 20 users) and Enterprise (for more than 20 users). Operating System: Linux.
45) Untangle
Used by more than 30,000 organizations, Untangle includes a Web filter, virus blocker, spam blocker, ad blocker, firewall, QoS, intrusion prevention, protocol control, OpenVPN, and all the other capabilities you would expect in a UTM appliance. As with Endian, you can use it to build your own appliance, or you can purchase a hardware appliance or a software package that adds more features not found in the open source version. Operating System: Linux.

Open Source Human Resource Management (HRM)

46) Open ApplicantOpen Applicant helps HR professionals and hiring managers sort through potential candidates to find the best applicant for a job. The application is free to download, but enterprise level support, customization, an SaaS version, and other services can be purchased from the company. Operating System: OS Independent.
47) Orange HRM
With more than 1 million users, Orange calls itself "the world’s most popular open source human resource management software." The software itself is free, but Orange also offers commercial support, training, add-ons, customization and an SaaS version. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.

Open Source Middleware

48) JBossStaking its claim as the "leader on-premise and in the cloud," RedHat's JBoss encompasses a variety of middleware offerings. The community versions are free, while enterprise subscriptions add support and other services.

Open Source Mind Mapper

49) XMindThis brainstorming and mind mapping software makes it easy to see the connections between ideas. The professional version adds features for business users, like export tools and Gantt views, that aren't available in the free open source version. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.

Open Source Network Monitoring/Scanning/Intrusion Detection

50) NagiosThe "industry standard in open source monitoring," Nagios provides alerts that can help IT respond to problems before they can cause costly outages. Well-known users include Unisys, Wells Fargo, BT, iRobot, and the Office of the President of the United States. Commercial support and maintenance packages are available from Nagios Enterprises. Operating system: Linux, Unix.
51) Opsview Community
Opsview aims to "unify your monitoring" so that you can track your physical, cloud and hybrid infrastructure from one place. An enterprise version, additional enterprise modules, support, training and consulting services are available for a fee. Operating System: Linux.
52) Snort
The "most widely deployed IDS/IPS technology worldwide," Snort boasts more than 300,000 registered users. Project owner Sourcefire offers paid consulting and training, as well as commercial products based Snort and sister project ClamAV. Operating System: Linux, Unix, OS X.
53) Zabbix
Calling itself the "ultimate open source monitoring solution," Zabbix provides a huge range of monitoring, alerting and visualization features. Several different levels of commercial support are available, as well as training and other services. Operating System: Windows (agent only), Linux, OS X.

Open Source Operating System

54) Red HatPerhaps the most well-known commercial open source software company, Red Hat's flagship enterprise Linux product for desktops and servers comes with commercial support and other services are also available. The company also offers virtualization products based on the operating system and JBoss Middleware that is available in community or enterprise versions.
55) SUSE
Novell's version of Linux also comes with enterprise-grade service and support. The company also offers a variety of other software projects that extend the capabilities of SUSE, as well as servers pre-configured with SUSE Linus Enterprise Server.
56) Ubuntu
Now one of the most popular versions of Linux, Ubuntu carries no licensing fees in any of its versions. Professional support and desktop, server or cloud services are available from owner Canonical.

Open Source Project Management

57) Onepoint ProjectThis enterprise project management software is designed to be both highly scalable and easy to use. Features include the work breakdown structure, project pipeline, cost baseline, plan/actual comparisons, milestone trend analysis, resource utilization, and more. Onepoint comes in a wide variety of editions: basic and community are licensed under GPL and the professional, master, group and enterprise versions require a fee-based commercial license. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.

Open Source Router Software

58) VyattaVyatta's software and appliances offer enterprises an alternative to expensive networking hardware from companies like Cisco. The core software is available as an open source download, or you can purchase hardware, supported software or services from Vyatta. Operating System: Linux.

Open Source School Management

59) openSISopenSIS helps school officials keep track of student information, attendance, grades, schedules, report cards, and more. In addition to the free community edition, in comes in paid district or school editions which can be deployed on-premise or accessed in the cloud. Operating System: OS Independent.

Open Source Server Software

60) ClearOSThis server software for small businesses combines a gateway security, server and networking features in a single download. Key features include multi-WAN, VPN, firewall, anti-malware, anti-spam, intrusion prevention, content filtering, file and print services, mail server, Web server, groupware, and more. While the full software can be downloaded for no charge, ClearCenter also offers paid support, services and hardware based on ClearOS. Operating System: Linux. 61)
Zentyal
Zentyal can act as a security gateway, infrastructure manager, unified threat manager, office server and/or unified communication server. The basic software is available for free, while professional and enterprise versions add support and more features for a fee. Operating System: Linux.

Open Source Time Tracking

62) TimeTrexTimeTrex claims to be "the world's most popular open source payroll and time management software." In addition to the free standard edition, it's available in several other versions that can be deployed on-site or used in the cloud. Operating System: Windows, Linux, OS X.

Open Source User Authentication

63) WiKIDWiKID offers open-source, two-factor authentication that utilizes software tokens for remote access, online banking and other applications that require strong authentication. The enterprise version adds some proprietary code not included in the community version, as well as support. Operating System: OS Independent.

NASA to host Open Source Summit

2011-03-31T22:22:00.000+02:00

On March 29 & 30, NASA will host its first Open Source Summit at Ames Research Center in Mountain View California. This event will bring together engineers and policy makers across NASA and respected members of the open source community to discuss the challenges with the existing open source policy framework, and propose modifications that would make it easier for NASA to develop, release, and use open source software.
Open source brings numerous benefits to NASA software projects, including increased software quality, reduced development costs, faster development cycles, and reduced barriers to public-private collaboration through new opportunities to commercialize NASA technology. This inherently transparent, participatory, and collaborative approach is revolutionizing the way software is created, improved, and used.
Although open source release has already provided numerous benefits to NASA, the full benefits of open source can only be realized if NASA is able to establish the processes, policies, and culture needed to encourage and support open source development. This will require expanding open source activities beyond releasing software only after completion and finding new ways to support two-way collaboration with an open development community throughout the entire software lifecycle.
Facilitated by Wayne Moses Burke and Lucas Cioffi of the Open Forum Foundation, this “Focus Forum” style event will move beyond abstract discussion to produce real, actionable solutions to NASA’s toughest open source challenges. Throughout the event, guest speakers will provide insights into best practices and share valuable lessons learned in building and leveraging open source communities. Confirmed speakers include Pascal Finette, Director of Mozilla Labs, Dr. Robert Sutor, Vice President of Open Systems at IBM, Chris Wanstrath, CEO and co-founder of Github, Brian Stevens, CTO and Vice President of Worldwide Engineering at Red Hat, Linda Cureton, CIO for NASA and Terry Fong, Director of NASA Ames Research Center’s Intelligent Robotics Group.
Participants will split into discussion sessions to address challenges with the existing policy framework and brainstorm potential solutions. Focus groups include licensing, government restrictions such as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, governance, and risk assessments.
Physical participation in the Open Source Summit is limited, however virtual participation is open to anyone through live streaming, electronic discussion, and collaborative note taking.

Reference Link is h3r3
http://www.nasa.gov/open/source/

Korea’s Largest Landline and Mobile Service Provider Using Open Source Cloud Computing Platform for Public Cloud

2011-03-31T22:09:00.002+02:00

Cloud.com, a provider of open source cloud computing software, today announced that KT, Korea’s largest landline operator and mobile service provider, has selected its flagship technology, CloudStack™, as the foundation for its new public cloud offering, KT ucloud. Currently in beta, KT ucloud will offer its users a stable, secure and cost-effective cloud environment that ensures enterprises are making the most efficient IT investment. As enterprise IT managers are looking for cost-effective cloud computing platforms, KT ucloud guarantees the most competitive pricing and benefits among its competitors. Additionally, KT ucloud reduces electricity consumption by two or three times, ultimately aiming to reduce more than 60 percent of electricity used within their datacenter operations and passing those efficiencies through to their customers.
“We at KT understand the importance of providing reliable, cost-effective cloud computing services. While the rest of the market is trying to catch up to cloud computing, KT is already creating innovative cloud services that are delivering enhanced features to users at an affordable price,” said JS Suh, Senior Vice President at KT. “When building cloud systems, choosing pertinent partners is critical for business success. We used Cloud.com as the foundation for our private cloud and found it to be an extremely robust solution that minimized the overhead costs of integration and complex deployment schedules. CloudStack technology seamlessly integrated with our existing technology and is allowing us to create a strong and agile public cloud.”
KT ucloud provides an end-to-end service based on service development, test, distribution, management and deletion. KT ucloud is priced up to 60 percent lower than Amazon Web Services and provides auto-provisioning and auto-scaling when assigning IT resources on an automation and active basis. In addition, KT ucloud monitors and meters usage volumes to give users real-time visibility into how they are using their cloud resources. In late 2010, KT announced it was using CloudStack to build Korea’s first large-scale private cloud, enabling KT employees to access shared data and software using a range of devices such as smartphones, tablet PCs and Internet protocol television (IPTV). With KT ucloud, CloudStack now is the foundation for KT’s public cloud as well.
“KT has experienced a great amount of success with its private cloud and is now using the same model of highly automated infrastructure, using best-of-breed open source technologies, to bring the same level of performance, scale and economics to their public cloud offering,” said Sheng Liang, CEO at Cloud.com. “KT is an innovator and leader in cloud computing in the Asia Pacific market as they launch KT ucloud. We are pleased with KT’s decision and look forward to the public release of KT ucloud.”
Recognizing that organizations currently face a daunting task when trying to build their own IaaS cloud environment, Cloud.com provides the customers with the fastest path to owning their own cloud by providing the latest and the most advanced software platform for building highly scalable, highly reliable cloud computing environments. Cloud.com currently enables over 50 large-scale production clouds in deployment that have been built on its market-leading open source cloud computing solution including Nokia Research Center, Tata Communications, GreenQloud and Logicworks. Cloud.com technologies can be deployed on-premise or as hosted cloud services.

Maturity of Using Open Source in Enterprise

2011-03-31T21:57:00.002+02:00

study made by the french biggest enterprise consortium regarding the maturity in adopting FOSS in big companies
Link is h3r3
http://www.cigref.fr/cigref_publications/RapportsContainer/Parus2011/Maturite_et_Gouvernance_de_l_Open_Source_CIGREF_2011.pdf

Thanks Yves for Sharing

IPv4 Addrress Space Ran out

2011-02-11T16:01:00.000+02:00

Yes, Right IPv4 Address Space depleted as per the official announce from the Number Resource Organization (NRO), Reference Link is h3r3
That means that IPv6 adoption is more critical now and is closer more than we think.
Quorted:"
"This is an historic day in the history of the Internet, and one we have been anticipating for quite some time," states Raúl Echeberría, Chairman of the Number Resource Organization (NRO), the official representative of the five RIRs. "The future of the Internet is in IPv6. All Internet stakeholders must now take definitive action to deploy IPv6."

Aljzeera Transparency Unit uses Drupal

2011-01-23T23:45:00.001+02:00

Al Jazeera Transparency Unit uses the Open Source Content Management System Drupal.
if the the new launched site from Al Jazeera is blocked in your country you can use urvpn to access it securely link is h3r3
http://67.192.235.116/drupal/ar/node/2339
Scrrenshot and IP whois

[Querying whois.arin.net]
[whois.arin.net]
#
# Query terms are ambiguous.  The query is assumed to be:
#     "n 67.192.235.116"
#
# Use "?" to get help.
#

#
# The following results may also be obtained via:
# http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=67.192.235.116?showDetails=true&showARIN=false
#

Al Jazeera Network RSPC-1211573287585314 (NET-67-192-235-112-1) 67.192.235.112 - 67.192.235.119
Rackspace Hosting RSCP-NET-4 (NET-67-192-0-0-1) 67.192.0.0 - 67.192.255.255


#
# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
#

How to Access Blocked Websites, Unblock Restricted Sites

2011-01-19T04:40:00.001+02:00

If you want to bypass proxy in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates to access all the sites you want anywhere and to add great layer of security you can use www.urvpn.com
that will allow you to use skype and access all the blocked sites in all countries as Saudi Arabia , Kuwait , Bahrain, United Arab Emirates

That gives you to bypass the Proxy of any ISP in the above mentioned countries

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كل ما عليك استخدام خدمة www.urvpn.com/lang-ar

Play Windows Games on linux

2011-01-13T13:29:00.001+02:00

Playing Windows Games on Linux us possible now, by using Playonlinux.com project link is h3r3

Details:

What is PlayOnLinux ?

PlayOnLinux is a piece of sofware which allows you to easily install and use numerous games and apps designed to run with Microsoft® Windows®.
Few games are compatible with GNU/Linux at the moment and it certainly is a factor preventing the migration to this system. PlayOnLinux brings a cost-free, accessible and efficient solution to this problem.

What are PlayOnLinux's features?

Here is a non-exhaustive list of the interesting points to know:

You don't have to own a Windows® license to use PlayOnLinux.
PlayOnLinux is based on Wine, and so profits from all its features yet it keeps the user from having to deal with its complexity.
PlayOnLinux is free software.
PlayOnLinux uses Bash and Python.

Nevertheless, PlayOnLinux has some bugs, as every piece of software:

Occasional performance decrease (image may be less fluid and graphics less detailed).
Not all games are supported. Nevertheless, you can use our manual installation module.

A few screenshots of PlayOnLinux

I'd like to download PlayOnLinuxLatest version : 3.8.8

Afro Arab Free and Ope Source Software Conference in Egypt is on 22-23 March 2011

2011-01-12T18:40:00.000+02:00

Afro Arab Free and Ope Source Software Conference in Egypt is on 22-23 March 2011 is a conference on Free and Open source software for Africa and the Arab Region

The conference is the Second Middle East And Africa Open Source Software Technology Forum, 22 – 23 March, 2011, Ramsis Hilton - Cairo

Due To The Success Of The First Middle East And Africa Open Source Software Technology Forum On June 2010, Concord For Exhibitions And Conferences Is Pleased To Announce The Second MEA Open Source Software Technology Forum; 22 – 23 March, 2011, Ramsis Hilton - Cairo. The Forum Shall Encompass A 2 Full Days Conference Succeeded. The Forum Is A Technology Type Of Event Directed To ICT Users, Service Providers And Developers.
Vendors Of Tools, Applications And Remarkable Experiences Are Welcome To Present Their Products, Technologies, Services And To Discuss Their Success Stories As Well. The Event Strives To :

1 – Free And Open Source Software As A Social Movement And Adoption.
   » Open Source Challenge, Obstacles, Barriers, Multinationals, Recognition.
   » Government Adoption, Brazilian Experiment.
   » Decision Advantage With Open Source, Policies & Steps To Be Taken By Government To Adopt OS.
   » Economics Of Open Source.

2 – Business Models And Solutions.
   » Linux Providers, Linux Market And Products Providers.
   » Open Source Applications, Different Applications To Show OS Spreading Wide.
   » Database, MySQL, Oracle, Enterprise DB, Post GRE SQL,..
   » Development Language JAVA, PHP, Python, QT,..

3 – Security.
   » Managing The Balance Between Privacy And National Security.
   » How Open Are Governments Documents To Communities.
   » Open Source Security Relation To National Security.
   » Network Management, Monitoring And Security.

4 – Cloud Computing.
   » Concept.
   » Applications.
   » Business Models.
   » Providers.

5 – Open Source Success Stories.
   » Building Open Source Enterprise.
   » VOIP.
   » CRM.
   » Mobile Phones.
   » E Government.

6 – Technology & Innovation (New Trends).
   » OS & Innovation.
   » IPv6s.
   » Connect Me TV.
   » Blender 3d Animation Program.

7 – Young Minds Panel.
   » Talk About The Value Of Open Source.
   » Technical Social Networking & Forums.
   » Students Participating In Open Source.

8 – Law And Politics Of Open Source.
   » Copyright And Intellectual Property Issues, Licensing And Legalization.
   » Contract Issues In The Development And Sharing Of Software.
   » Access To Knowledge - A2K (Creative Commons).
   » Regulatory Issues Of Facilitating Competition In The Market For Computer Software.
   » The Adoption Of Open Source Systems By Government, And Principles Of Freedom Of Speech And Citizen Empowerment Domestically And Internationally.

The conference is supported by many Egyptian and international entities like Geeksconsultancy.com , PhoneixEgypt.com, Concord ,.....

Conference Site is h3r3

Donate to Keep Wikipedia up

2010-12-15T10:49:00.002+02:00

Al,

Please donate to Wikipedia if you can afford it

Dear XXX

I'm a volunteer.

I don't get paid a cent for my work at Wikipedia, and neither do our thousands of other volunteer authors and editors. When I founded Wikipedia, I could have made it into a for-profit company with advertising banners, but I decided to do something different.

Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong here. Not in Wikipedia.

To keep Wikipedia ad-free, we ask for donations every year on the site. We're sending you this email because we are scaling up our infrastructure this year, and we're simply not able to raise the whole budget from the banners alone.

We have an easy way to make an automatic monthly donation to Wikipedia, and we're looking for people who would like to become sustainers. (Of course you can make a one-time donation as well.)

Please make a monthly recurring gift of $3, $7, $13 -- or whatever you can.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFRE/en

Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park. It is like a temple for the mind. It is a place we can all go to think, to learn, to share our knowledge with others. It is a unique human project, the first of its kind in history. It is a humanitarian project to bring a free encyclopedia to every single person on the planet.

Every single person.

If all of Wikipedia's 400 million users would donate $1 each, we would have 20 times the amount of money we need. We're a small organization, and I've worked hard over the years to keep us lean and tight. We fulfill our mission, and leave waste to others.

To do this without resorting to advertising, we need you. It is you who keep this dream alive. It is you who have created Wikipedia. It is you who believe that a place of calm reflection and learning is worth having.

This year, please consider making a sustaining monthly donation of whatever amount you like to protect and sustain Wikipedia.

Thanks,

Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia Founder

P.S. -- If you can't commit to a recurring monthly donation, I hope you'll consider making another one time gift to help us reach our goal before the end of the year. Please make your donation today.

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Los Angeles, California 90189-4879
United States

BISA (Bringing Innovation Source Coding Africa)

2010-11-24T10:48:00.000+02:00

We are here to invite you to join our community, BISA (Bringing Innovation Source Coding Africa). We understand that programmers are constantly creating innovative solutions to every day tasks, for complex problems, for business, for education and for fun. We want to harness the developer talent across Africa to come together to form a community that produces products together for free and to advance the African continent technologically, through our collective action, ideas, sharing knowledge and working together.

We want you to help create this space for our open source platform. Africa needs programmers with an inspirational vision and who are willing to work collaboratively to bring forth these ideas to advance Africa as place for technological innovation.

It's an ambition project, and one which needs contributions from all of us.

We have the genesis of a great idea and we need more collaborators, to help us develop and unleash the true potential of this idea!

Please visit our Mozilla Drumbeat page for more information:
http://drumbeat.org/project/bisa-bringing-innovation-source-coding-africa

We would love to hear from you, email us: feedback@bisaproject.org

Please spread the word as far as can go!!

Together we can make this happen!

Free VPN Accounts

2010-11-23T12:05:00.003+02:00

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_125354450856938&ap=1I have been through www.urvpn.com, they offer Free VPN accounts for limited Time. the VPN they provide does not need any Software installation or third party as it uses Windows dialer Service, while provides high security standard and anonymity.
They provide very good tutorial on how to setup the Windows Connection for Windows XP VPN, Windows VISTA VPN, MAC OSX VPN , even the handled devices VPN as IPhone VPN access.
Link is h3r3
You can use urvpn.com for some of the below reasons and many others
1) Freedom of Speech
2) Online Privacy and Security
3) Security over Public Wifi and hotspots
4) over coming Proxy Server in countries that block certain sites
5) Use Skype in countries that block Skype Traffic
6) Access Blocked websites by your corporate network
7) Access Blocked websites by your countries proxy of firewall

They do have Facebook Group as well , link is h3r3

NASA and Rackspace part the clouds with open source project

2010-11-22T19:44:00.002+02:00

A group of cloud computing stakeholders have announced a new project called OpenStack, which aims to produce a standard open source cloud computing software stack. It will allow adopters to host their own elastic computing clouds and scalable storage grids. Key participants include hosting company Rackspace and NASA.

The project consists of several interoperable components that will be released incrementally as the code is made ready for public consumption. The OpenStack Object Storage framework, which is based Rackspace's Cloud Files service, is the first OpenStack component to be made available.

The OpenStack contributors are also preparing to release OpenStack Compute, a framework for provisioning elastic computing clusters. The Compute component is not yet ready for an official release, but the preliminary source code is available as a developer preview. It is based on NASA's Nebula cloud architecture and Rackspace's Cloud Servers service.
The OpenStack software is distributed under the permissive open source Apache 2.0 license. This will allow users to modify and redistribute the code and even incorporate it into closed-source derivatives. The source code is hosted on Launchpad, Canonical's open source project hosting service. The code is written largely in the Python programming language and uses several well-known Python network programming frameworks, including Twisted and FriendFeed's Tornado.
Ars spoke with Rackspace CTO John Engates to learn more about the project and its underlying technology. He said that one of the chief goals behind the OpenStack effort is to encourage the development of open standards for interoperable cloud computing technology. Engates believes the open source technology will help accelerate adoption of cloud technology, which will ultimately benefit Rackspace and other commercial hosting providers.
We asked how OpenStack compares to Eucalyptus, an existing open source cloud computing framework that is compatible with EC2. Engates says that Eucalyptus is hindered by scalability challenges that OpenStack can handily overcome. He explained that this makes OpenStack a better solution for large-scale deployments.
NASA's Nebula computing platform was initially built on top of Eucalyptus, but the space agency began rolling its own solution called Nova as it grew increasingly dissatisfied with the limitations of Eucalyptus. The code from Nova is one of the key pieces in the OpenStack Compute software.
"Modern scientific computation requires ever increasing storage and processing power delivered on demand," said NASA CTO Chris Kemp in a statement. "To serve this demand, we built Nebula, an infrastructure cloud platform designed to meet the needs of our scientific and engineering community. NASA and Rackspace are uniquely positioned to drive this initiative based on our experience in building large scale cloud platforms and our desire to embrace open source."
Although Rackspace and NASA have taken the lead in putting together OpenStack, the effort has attracted many other participants. Engates says that there are over 20 companies involved and that the project will have an open governance model. As cloud computing technology gains momentum, this kind of open industry-driven effort could boost interoperability and help protect consumers from vendor lock-in.

Impressive data visualization tool to be released as open source

2010-11-22T19:42:00.000+02:00

The former leaders of IBM's Visual Communications Lab have been hard at work on a "summer project" -- desktop software that will display large amounts of information in a number of visual formats.
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg touted version "0.5" of their Time Flow tool as a way to create visual timelines from textual data. And indeed the software can import a table of data -- presidential appointments, political contributions -- and show it as a timeline or a calendar, with color- and size-coded entries that make it easier to spot patterns. But the software also displays as sortable/filterable lists, tables and graphs -- allowing it to serve as much as a visual database as timeline -- and offers statistical summaries of the data.
Viégas and Wattenberg created the visualization site Many Eyes which was designed to "democratize data analysis," adding a social component to graphic data (well before the explosive popularity of social media).
They said they expect to release this new software as open source within a week or so on the Web site of their current company, Flowing Media. If you're interested in data visualization tools, you may want to bookmark that site.

Linux Professional Institute LPI Certification adopted by Public Schools in Spain

2010-10-13T12:58:00.000+02:00

The below news is very important in Linux/Open Source awareness/Competncies and adoption

Details:

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world’s premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced with its affiliate organization LPI-Spain (http://www.lpi.org.es/) that a program in public schools in Spain to promote Linux education and certification has achieved successful results in its first six months of operation. This public education initiative with Proyecto Universidad Empresa (PUE) has recruited close to 20 training partners. PUE is Spain’s leading agency in the development of IT training and certification and provides academic programs for such major IT organizations as Microsoft, Cisco and Sun.

For more information on PUE’s initiative with LPI please see: http://www.pue.es/lpi

“This impressive result early in this program initiative with PUE demonstrates the growing recognition of the need for professional Linux skills and knowledge within the IT sector in Spain. LPI continues to support the workforce development of Linux professionals in regions throughout the world. In this instance, we are pleased to work with academic organizations and government agencies which undertake the important work of developing IT curriculum to meet this need,” said Jim Lacey, president and CEO of LPI.

Under this initiative PUE and LPI-Spain have recruited a number of LPI Approved Academic Partners (LPI-AAP) to deliver Linux training and certification. The program has been embraced by educators in both the Spanish and Catalan language.
“In our education department we promote the use of Free Software–particularly the use of Linux. We believe it is important that our students at CFGS Management Computer Systems and Networks learn to manage Linux and Free and Open Source Software. LPI certification provides our students with a path to develop their knowledge and an understanding of this type of software environment. As well LPI certification is a recognized educational standard that is being increasingly requested by employers,” said Josefa Gonzalez Perales, INS La Ferreria, Montcada i Reixac, Barcelona, Spain (http://phobos.xtec.net/ieslaferreria/intranet/)

“For the information technology students of the Institut de l’Ebre, the ability to demonstrate their knowledge of the Linux operating system through a recognized training and certification program, as with LPI, is an opportunity for a well-paid job–in particular where, at least in Spain, and especially in Catalonia, there is an increasing demand and few qualified professionals for such positions,” said Sergi Tur Badenas of the Institut de l’Ebre, Tarragona, Spain (http://www.iesebre.com/). Sergi Tur Badenas added: “The PUE/LPI-Spain initiative owes its remarkable success, specifically in Catalan, to the creation of an online documentation base about the LPIC-1 certification. This tool has been useful both for teachers and students in order to clearly verify educational goals and skills development students have gained during their training towards the LPIC program.”

For more information on LPI’s Approved Academic Partner program please see: http://www.lpi.org/training

The Linux Professional Institute is globally supported by the IT industry, enterprise customers, community professionals, government entities and the educational community. LPI’s certification program is supported by an affiliate network spanning five continents and is distributed worldwide in multiple languages at more than 7,000 testing locations. Since 1999, LPI has delivered over 260,000 exams and 87,000 LPIC certifications around the world.

About the Linux Professional Institute:

The Linux Professional Institute promotes and certifies essential skills on Linux and Open Source technologies through the global delivery of comprehensive, top-quality, vendor-independent exams. Established as an international non-profit organization in September 1999 by the Linux community, the Linux Professional Institute continues to demonstrate recognized global leadership in the certification of Linux professionals. LPI advances the Linux and Open Source movement through strategic partners, sponsorships, innovative programs and community development activities. LPI’s major financial sponsors are Platinum Sponsors IBM, Linux Journal, Linux Magazine, Novell, SGI, and TurboLinux as well as Gold Sponsors, HP and IDG.