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The disgruntled sysadmin accused of locking San Francisco out of its IT network may cost the city more than $1m in upgrades, consultants and repairs to undo the damage, according to the City’s Department of Technology.…
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Accused of being home to online scammers, the San Francisco-based ISP Intercage has been unplugged from the Internet — for the second time this week.
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The shakiness of the macroeconomy plus general problems with travel arrangements caused many usual attendees to sit out this year’s LinuxWorld Conference Expo in San Francisco. More than 7,500 people signed up, but about half that actually showed up, some estimates said. But there was no lack of enthusiasm for new product releases especially in the data center, mobile and cloud computing sectors. Those who stayed home missed a lot of good new products and plenty of good networking opportunities.
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It was apparent early on that this was not going to be a sold-out
LinuxWorld Conference amp; Expo at San Francisco’s Moscone Center.
Malaise in the macroeconomy and general travel difficulties were
generally thought to be the culprits. Only 7,500 people registered, and
perhaps half that …


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Database giant suffers second outage
It’s just as well Oracle customers are today holed up at the firm’s OpenWorld event in San Francisco seeing as, for the second time inside a month, the Oracle website is having a little lie-down.…
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Oracle saved the biggest news for last at its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. CEO Larry Ellison took the stage Wednesday afternoon to announce two hardware products developed with Hewlett-Packard that are designed to provide very high performance for data warehousing applications.
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