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Networking for a dynamic infratructure: getting it right.
A guide for realizing the full potential of virtualization

Advances in communications and networking capabilities today offer organizations almost unlimited opportunities to create business advantage by conducting business anywhere, anytime, using multiple types of devices and communications. Organizations have the potential to create and support innovative new business models—from advanced collaboration environments to customer self-service to mobile workforce support. Yet knowing how and where to start can be challenging. Chances are your company is asking lots of questions, such as:
How can we use communications and networking to achieve strategic business advantage?
What’s the best way to support our mobile workforce?
How do we manage the proliferation of end user devices with voice, video and data capabilities?
Where can we find skills to handle the new complex communications and networking technologies?
How can we track high-value assets to enable the swift location of information?
How can we build the right networking environment to optimize employee collaboration?
How can we reduce our capital investments and costs?
How can we ensure that we’re getting the most cost-effective performance from our network?
Integrated communications services focus on designing, implementing and managing your communications and networking environments to optimize them for anytime, anywhere integrated business communications. These services are designed to enable you to support key networking environments and build differentiating advantage through business innovation.

Integrated communications services can help you:
Create new process models to drive business innovation for competitive advantage
Conduct business anytime, anywhere using multiple types of devices and forms of communication
Enhance individual, work group and organizational productivity with collaboration environments
Enable new capabilities by integrating voice, video and data communications
Optimize your communications and networking environments for cost-effective performance.
Integrated communications services combine IBM’s IT and business solutions expertise, proven methodologies, highly skilled global resources, industry-leading management platforms and processes, and strategic partnerships with other industry leaders to help you create an integrated communications environment that drives business flexibility and growth.

News about LPI

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), (http://www.lpi.org), the world’s premier Linux certification organization announced that  thru ongoing training and certification program in Taiwan Chung Hwa Telecom, it shows remarkable milestone to have more systems migrate to Linux platform and make its IT infrastructure more cost efficient.

During the past few years, especially from the beginning of 2008, Chung Hwa Telecom Training Center made a plan to train their engineers to have Linux and open source techniques and skills to serve their goal of the growth of the company business and reduce the cost of internal IT infrastructure.  Up to now, there are around 200 engineers gains deferent level of LPI certifications, including level 1, level 2 and level 3, among them, 1/3 of people holds level 2 or above certifications. 

“With the training and certification program, we enhanced the skills and techniques of in service engineers, therefore, they make their daily works more efficient and contributed a lot of new ideas and  find new ways to improve the ROI of IT  of  Chung Hwa Telecom.”  Said Mr. Ted Chiou, extension training center of Chung Hwa Telecom.  “So we will continue this approach to work with LPI  Taiwan more closely in the future.”
“Besides working with Chung Hwa Telecom Training Center in extension training,” said Mr. Weili Hsueh, the superintendent in LPI Taiwan. “LPI is actively introducing the program into school vocational program and cooperative enterprise’s educational training for achieving the three-way cooperation, and meanwhile enhancing the students’ Linux system and network skills.”

About the Linux Professional Institute:
The Linux Professional Institute promotes and certifies essential skills on Linux and Open Source technologies through the global delivery of comprehensive, top-quality, vendor-independent exams. Established as an international non-profit organization in 1999 by the Linux community, the Linux Professional Institute continues to demonstrate recognized global leadership in the certification of Linux professionals. LPI advances the Linux and Open Source movement through strategic partners, sponsorships, innovative programs and community development activities. LPI’s major financial sponsors are Platinum Sponsors IBM, Linux Journal, Linux Magazine, Novell, SGI, and TurboLinux as well as Gold Sponsors, HP and IDG.

The News about MySQL Database Integration

Added Support for JavaScript Programming Language Extends Productivity for the Creation of Next Generation Web Applications.SANTA CLARA, CA March 17, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA), the leading Open Source company, and the NetBeans community today announced the immediate availability of NetBeans 6.1 integrated development environment (IDE) Beta. NetBeans 6.1 Beta adds a rich set of features for JavaScript technology development, a key component for delivering Ajax web applications and tighter integration of MySQL database functionality. The NetBeans 6.1 IDE Beta is available now via download.

The JavaScript technology support is based on the dynamic language support added for Ruby and includes: semantic highlighting, code completion, type analysis, quick fixes, semantic checks and refactoring. It also includes a browser compatibility feature that makes it easy to create JavaScript software code that works in the popular Mozilla Firefox, Windows Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari Web browsers. Sun’s commitment to dynamic languages has expanded with the recent hiring of Python and Jython developers, Ted Leung and Frank Wierzbicki, respectively. Leung and Wierzbicki join other technologists, such as Ian Murdock, Charles Nutter, Thomas Enebo, and Nick Kew who have recently joined Sun to pursue open source project development and community activities. “Since the release of NetBeans 4.0 IDE, momentum and adoption has been phenomenal with more than 9.3 million downloads during the past two years,” said Jim Parkinson, vice president of Tools and Services at Sun. “With NetBeans 6.1 IDE, we expect adoption rates to continue to go through the roof especially with the new JavaScript software functionality and the tighter integration work taking place with the MySQL database. This release of NetBeans IDE exemplifies the innovation and success of the open source initiatives at Sun.”

Other highlights of NetBeans 6.1 IDE Beta include:
Performance enhancements including faster startup and code completion;
Spring framework support with features such as configuration file support, code completion and hyperlinks to speed navigation;
New MySQL support in the Database Explorer to make it easier to create, launch and view MySQL databases;
Significant enhancements to the Ruby/JRuby support, including a new Ruby platform manager, support for the latest version of Rails and new hints and quick fixes in the editor;
Beta support for the ClearCase version control system- made available as a plugin from the Update Center.
Join the NetBeans software team on May 5, 2008 for the fifth annual NetBeans Day, now a track at the CommunityOne 2008 Conference being held the day before the JavaOne 2008 Conference. The NetBeans community track offers developers a chance to learn from the experts, find out firsthand what’s new and what’s coming in the NetBeans IDE and network with other members of the community.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision — “The Network is the Computer” — Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, NetBeans, JavaScript, JavaOne, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks, registered trademarks or servicemarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. MySQL is a trademark of MySQL AB.