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IIBM has a Linux on POWER story to tell at the University of Oregon, 
where grid computing is being used to optimize the school's collective 
computing abilities for brain research. Get to know more about how the 
university's grid configuration combines the computing speed and power 
required for neuroimaging. Click on:
<http://www.open-mag.com/cgi-bin/opencgi/email/redirect.cgi?LoP0602>
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June 2, 2004
 
Hello Mike Swier (Account no. 171300 )
 
Open Magazine - Your strategic guide to Open Source 
http://www.open-mag.com/cgi-bin/opencgi/email/redirect.cgi?Open0602
 
The interesting thing about using information technology--as if you 
have not noticed by now--is that nothing is as it seems. The pace of 
change obviates glib assumptions, and only the wise IT planners actually 
survive.

Nothing is what it seems in the long-running SCO furor over Linux 
infringements. While some may regard the SCO affair as a tempest in a 
teapot, license-compliance audits are taking center-stage. Any murky cloud 
surrounding Open Source license compliance could be the litigator's next 
silver lining. Daniel Eggers, founder of Open Source Risk Management 
LLC, is selling defense and legal infrastructure to those who stand 
vulnerable to plaintiffs and their lawyers, beyond SCO. 

Meanwhile, openBench Labs continues its quest for answers to the great 
IT conundrum: If disks are so inexpensive, why is storage so costly? 
The answer calls for finding devices with real SAN smarts. We discover a 
SAN storage array that provides the added-value services once only 
found in file-server appliances. What's more, there's a Fibre-Channel 
driver in 2.6 kernel distributions that makes the Linux and Windows 2003 
Server battle for "King of the SANpit" no contest. Find out more.
  
For this week's stories, click on 
<http://www.open-mag.com/cgi-bin/opencgi/email/redirect.cgi?Open0602
 
 
The editors of Open magazine