One of the largest web hosting companies just removed data transfer quotas from their hosting packages. 1 & 1 Internet serves 9 million customers has been in what has been termed an “arms race” for market share.

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Google is currently in the process of building a replacement of its 10 year old file system, Google File System (GFS). GFS was never intended to handle all the kinds of applications that it currently governs–apps like Gmail and Youtube. The system, designed in the 90s, was made for batch-oriented applications such as web crawling [...]

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The 1300 servers that manage the US Postal Service’s package tracking system will now run on Linux. The original system code was written in Cobol, and it has taken the better part of a year for the code to be updated for the Linux environment. It was less expensive for the Postal Service to convert [...]

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Red Hat Linux joins the S&P 500 and is the first Linux company to join this important measure of the stock market. Although this feat won’t directly impact Red Hat’s bottom line, it does show the growing importance of Linux on the world of business.

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