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Linux distros sign up for IPv6 — Compliance with DoD guidelines all round.In 2005, the US government mandated all of its agencies to meet the next-generation Internet protocol requirements for any computing and networking equipment they acquire.The Linux Foundation formed a Linux IPv6 workgroup, headed by Venkata Jagana, chief architect of networking within IBM's Linux Technology Center, to address this major undertaking and enable Linux-based...... [Tags: chief architect, compliance, dod guidelines, internet protocol, linux]

DotNetNuke Corporation, the owner and maintainer of the open source web application framework that goes by the same name, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series A venture funding from August Capital and Sierra Ventures. DotNetNuke is a web application framework written in VB.NET, and is used by developers worldwide to create, deploy and manage interactive web, intranet and extranet sites. Its DotNetNuke.com community website has over 630,000 registerered members, and the open source framework (the application is licensed under a single BSD open source license) has been downloaded over 5.5 million times to date. Details about the amount of... [Tags: 5 million, adoption, august capital, chief architect, crunch]

Penny Pritzker: Commerce Secretary? — More news has come out about the makeup of Obama's Cabinet. The New York Times reports that Penny Pritzker is a leading candidate for Commerce Secretary: Two other leading contenders for cabinet positions emerged late Wednesday, Democrats with knowledge of the process said. Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona was poised to be offered the position of homeland security secretary, and Penny Pritzker, a Chicago businesswoman and national finance chairman of the Obama campaign, was in the final stages of vetting for commerce secretary. A longtime friend of Mr. Obama, Ms. Pritzker was a chief architect of his record-breaking fund-raising efforts... [Tags: accounting irregularities, barack obama, cabinet positions, chief architect, cnn]

Meet The Man Who Delivered North Carolina For Obama — At an election night boiler room at Cary's upscale Umstead Hotel, dozens of operatives of Barack Obama's presidential campaign watched as North Carolina went blue for the first time in nearly a third of a century. Watching with special satisfaction was Marc Farinella, 50, who cut his teeth on Chicago politics. Farinella was the chief architect of Obama's victory in the state.... [Tags: barack obama, boiler room, chicago politics, chief architect, dozens]

Cheers and Jeers: Monday — From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... Happy Birthday, Howard. Last week Obama campaign manager David Plouffe sent out an mail: Our friends at the Democratic National Committee laid it all on the line to bring change this year. The DNC's 50-state field strategy was crucial to our campaign's success, as well as victories for Democrats up and down the ballot. Their organizing infrastructure allowed us to compete---and win---in states that seemed insurmountable just four years ago. They took out substantial loans to make it happen. The DNC didn't hold back, and now, neither can we. You were there for this... [Tags: biden, c amp, california state convention, campaign manager, campaign speech]

Cheney And Biden To Meet Privately At VP Residence — WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney, getting ready to hand off the job as the nation's second-in-command, will sit down with Vice President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday at the Naval Observatory. Cheney spokeswoman Megan Mitchell said Cheney and his wife, Lynne, have invited Biden and his wife, Jill, to their home at the observatory, the vice presidential residence. The meeting on the vice presidential transition follows the historic meeting President Bush had Monday with President-elect Obama. "The Cheneys and the Bidens will have a private meeting and then tour the residence," Mitchell said. Foreign policy and national security issues likely... [Tags: chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, chief architect, dick cheney, foreign relations committee, harry truman]

Security Bites 121: What Microsoft's Geneva means for online IDs — Kim Cameron, chief architect with the Identity and Security group at Microsoft, is Robert Vamosi's guest this week.... [Tags: chief architect, geneva, kim cameron, microsoft, robert vamosi]

Is the BBC doing enough with its outbound links? — The BBC's Internet Blog has tackled the ripples of criticism surrounding the BBC's external links policy in a post today. Initially, the problem was that the BBC just wasn't linking out enough which, in its position as the biggest UK website and as a publicly funded entity, means it has an obligation to the the nation's greatest purveyor of links.Blogstorm started this on Saturday, saying that in an act of "selfishness and greed" the BBC has replaced direct, more search engine-friendly outbound links with redirect links."Links from the BBC have, historically, been some of the most important links that a... [Tags: bbc, bbc website, blog, chief architect, donovan]

BBC and Google juice: the BBC responds — Demonstrating once again why journalists should not only blog but monitor incoming links, the BBC’s response to the recent story about ‘holding back Google juice’ in its linking came to my attention as I was scanning the incoming links to this blog. John O’Donovan, Chief Architect, BBC FM&T Journalism, says “nothing sinister”, and: “We are rolling out improvements to the way this works, as already used on some other parts of the website. Essentially we use JavaScript to retain SEO (”Search Engine Optimisation“) and Google juice for external sites, while we will still be able to track external links. Search... [Tags: amp, bbc, casual observers, chief architect, donovan]

Babelgum COO Quits In Latest High-Level Shakeup — Babelgum's chief operating officer Michael O'Callaghan is leaving the P2P online video platform, we have learned and confirmed with the company - just the latest senior-level switch this year. O'Callaghan is based in Dublin in his native Ireland, where the company is headquartered for tax reasons. The company will now have changed its CEO, CTO and COO all in the last 13 months. The decision to swap original CEO Erik Lumer was for Valerio Zingarelli last year has proved unpopular with some inside the company, with original CTO Mallku Caballero and his chief architect Gianni Scenini leaving earlier this year... [Tags: babelgum, caballero, chief architect, chief operating officer, co founder]

At the Professional Developer Conference being held today in Los Angeles, Microsoft Chief Architect Ray Ozzie announced the company’s cloud computing platform, Windows Azure, which is a response to Amazon’s Web Services stack and Google’s App Engine. Azure is a cloud computing platform that allows developers to create web applications using existing Microsoft development tools and deploy them across Microsoft’s data centers via a pay-as-you-go service (pricing has not been announced). The following is Microsoft’s bullet point pitch for Azure: Add Web service capabilities to existing packaged applications. Build, modify, and distribute applications to the Web with minimal on-premises resources.... [Tags: amazon, bullet point, chief architect, computing platform, crm functionality]

PDC 2008: Windows Live ID Becomes an OpenID Provider — Microsoft’s Windows Live service will also become an OpenID provider, the company said Monday. With the announcement, Microsoft has put its full support behind the emerging OpenID standard. What this means is that you’ll soon be able to use your Windows Live account to sign into any site on the web that supports OpenID — sites like Plaxo, Technorati and Ma.gnolia, plus service platforms like LiveJournal, Movable Type and 37Signals. Your Windows Live ID login is what you currently use to sign on to Hotmail, MSN Messenger, Spaces or any of Microsoft’s Live services sites. The Windows Live ID... [Tags: chief architect, de facto standard, developer event, evolution, internet identity]

Sun Speaks Out on the Future of the Java Platform — Danny Coward, chief architect of the Client Software Group at Sun, discusses Java Standard Edition 6 Update 10 and the future of the Java Platform with eWEEK. - Sun Micosystems released Java Standard Edition 6 Update 10 and Danny Coward, Chief Architect, Client Software Group, Sun, checked in for an interview with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft to talk about the future of the Java platform. Q: How is the role of Java changing and what are we se...... [Tags: chief architect, client software, coward, java platform, software group]

Sun: Elvis Andy has not left the building — Bechtolsheim still chief architect, says 'boss' When we woke up this morning, we were confronted with a flurry of stories about Andy Bechtolsheim leaving Sun to become chairman and chief development officer at a startup called Arista Networks. This seemed like bad news for Sun, but the company would like you to know it isn't entirely true.…... [Tags: andy bechtolsheim, arista, bad news, boss, chief architect]

Sun Co-Founder Bechtolsheim Leaves to Join Cloud Computing Startup — Andy Bechtolsheim will become chairman and chief development officer of Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup Arista Networks, which has about 50 employees. Arista also named former Cisco Systems vice president Jayshree Ullal, a 25-year industry veteran, as its new president and chief executive. - Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the four founders of Sun Microsystems and the chief architect of the company's hardware systems for the better part of a generation, said Oct. 23 has left the company to join Arista Networks, a startup in the cloud computing space. Bechtolsheim will become chairman and c...... [Tags: andy bechtolsheim, chief architect, chief development officer, cisco, cisco systems]

Bechtolsheim leaves Sun for switches start-up — Flashes 10 gigabit kit in Cisco's face Sun Microsystems cofounder Andreas von Bechtolsheim is quitting his job as chief architect at the firm to concentrate on what has up to now been his pet project – Arista Networks.…... [Tags: 10 gigabit, andreas von bechtolsheim, chief architect, cisco, cofounder]

Sun co-founder departs to challenge Cisco — Pounded by the stock markets after a poor showing in its recent earnings report, Sun Microsystems now has another thing to worry about: Co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, who most recently served as chief architect for its systems group, is leaving to help run a startup called Arista that will reportedly make networking equipment for a growing industry segment. Aside from helping to found Sun in 1982 with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla and Bill Joy (the latter two are now venture capitalists), Bechtolsheim is famous for being one of the very first investors in Google, and also co-founded a company called Granite... [Tags: andy bechtolsheim, chief architect, chief scientist, cisco exec, content delivery network]

Ex-Cisco SVP to Lead Andy Bechtolsheim’s Latest Switch Startup — Andy Bechtolsheim may be well known for co-founding Sun Microsystems, but the reality is that his list of accomplishments is much longer. Whenever there is a major infrastructure technology shift, you can bet that 53-year-old Bechtolsheim is starting a company — like Granite Systems and Kealia, for example. Neither one of them ever became a household name, but both were scooped up for millions of dollars, by Cisco Systems and Sun, respectively. Granite Systems went onto become the underpinning of Cisco’s Gigabit Ethernet switching business. For a fan of classic rock, Bechtolsheim is tech-world’s equivalent of Eric Clapton.   In 2004, along... [Tags: andy bechtolsheim, center infrastructure, chief architect, chief development officer, cisco systems]

Sun Loses Co-Founder to Start-Up — Andreas von Bechtolsheim is resigning as chief architect of Sun Microsystems to focus on a start-up that is challenging another industry giant, Cisco Systems.... [Tags: andreas von bechtolsheim, chief architect, cisco, cisco systems, co founder]

@ Mipcom: Turbulent Babelgum Finds New CTO; Player Upgrade And New Management Coming Soon — Under-the-spotlight Babelgum has quietly promoted its chief technical architect Egidio Corsini to be its new chief technology officer (CTO), hoping to bury a year of animosity between its tech team and its new leadership. The heavily-funded outfit is also hiring general managers for each of its five key content areas. Original CTO Mallku Caballero and his own architect Gianni Scenini left earlier this year in opposition to Valerio Zingarelli, who ousted Erik Lumer as CEO. In the wake of the tech shake-up, we've been hearing tales that all is still not well, with continued resentment toward Zingarelli from some quarters.... [Tags: adventure sports, babelgum, chief architect, chief technology officer, content acquisition]