To Help Protect OSes Against Certain Types of Attacks 
The National Security Agency (NSA) is working with Sun, Apple and Red Hat “to develop secure baselines for their products,” commented Richard Schaeffer, the NSA’s information assurance director, on Nov. 17 at a hearing before the U.S. Senate’s Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security.
Open Source for America to Advocate Broader Support, Participation
Sun is one of more than 70 organizations and individuals that have joined together to form a new coalition called Open Source for America that will promote the use of free and open source software to the U.S. Federal Government. Gartner recently estimated by 2011 more than 25 percent of government vertical, domain-specific applications will either be open source, contain open source application components or be developed as community source.
The Economist Reports on the Sector’s Evolving Bottom Line
While surely no one likes a recession, open-source software firms are finding an encouraging number of adoptions as the tightening economy forces companies to seek the best price point for their IT infrastructure. The Economist recently reported on the open-source sector, noting double-digit growth in the sector as a whole.
OpenSolaris on Sun Fire X2270 Outperforms Linux by 25%
Having earlier run memchached performance tests on the Sun Fire X2270 Server running OpenSolaris, Sun Senior Staff Engineer Shanti reports on a similar test involving RHEL5 in a blog entitled “OpenSolaris Beats Linux on Memchached.”
