There really should be a similar simple way to center multiple elements evenly spaced. It would be nice if CSS had a property called “box-align” which you could set to “center” then the child elements would be centered evenly within their parent.

Well, you can achieve something similar by taking advantage of CSS’s flexibity with “recasting” elements (for lack of a better term).

The Usual Way

Normally, in such a situation, you would just float the boxes, then add left and right margins to space them out accordingly. But that can get a little messy, because IE6 doesn’t like margins on floats, and you always have to have a different id or class for elements on which you don’t want margins (like the last and/or the first).

You can get around the IE6 problem by adding display: inline in an IE6-only declaration, but your code will still be somewhat messy because of the extra code to get the first and/or last item to behave. Also, the last box could fall to the next line in IE.

There’s another solution to this that might work better in certain circumstances.

Use inline-block and control white space

To achieve the same effect as adding floats and margins, you can simply “recast” your block-level elements as inline blocks, and then manipulate the white space between them. Here is how the CSS might look:

#parent {
width: 615px;
border: solid 1px #aaa;
text-align: center;
font-size: 20px;
letter-spacing: 35px;
white-space: nowrap;
line-height: 12px;
overflow: hidden;
}
.child {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
border: solid 1px #ccc;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
}

In my example above, I’m assuming there are four child boxes, each with the class child, and each 100 pixels by 100 pixels. The boxes are naturally block-level elements, but the CSS changes them to inline-block, which allows them to flow naturally with text and white space. Of course, since we don’t have any text in the parent container, controlling the text and white space will not be a problem.

The parent element (with the id parent in this example) has four key text properties set, and the children have two:

• text-align makes all inline child elements centered
• letter-spacing controls the size of each white space unit between boxes
• white-space: nowrap keeps the last element from potentially dropping to the next line
• overflow: hidden prevents the box from stretching in IE6
• vertical-align: middle (on the children) keeps the boxes on the same vertical plane as each other when content is added
• display: inline-block (obviously)

Internet Explorer Rears its Ugly Head

What would a CSS solution be without an Internet Explorer issue to work around? While this method works exactly the same in every browser (including IE8), IE6 and IE7 don’t cooperate, because they don’t fully support inline-block. To get those browsers to show virtually the same result, you need to add the following CSS:

.child {
*display: inline;
*margin: 0 20px 0 20px;
}

The CSS above must apply only to IE6 and IE7, and it has to appear after the other CSS. In my code (and in the code example above) I’ve accomplished this by using the star hack. The asterisk (or star) at the beginning of each line hides both lines from every browser except IE6 and IE7. The margins added here help us get the same visual result, and the new display property is taking advantage of a bug in those browsers that makes a block element work like its inline when you declare display: inline-block followed by display: inline.

Drawbacks / Final Thoughts

Not many drawbacks to this. You just have to make sure the white space and text settings that you apply are reset on any child elements inside the boxes. So, while this may work when you have straight images or other non-text content, it may be more trouble than its worth if your boxes are fully loaded with diverse content.

But nonetheless a good technique to know when you have to center some block elements with equal spacing, and you don’t want to apply extra classes on the end units. And this technique will be even more important when the older versions of IE disappear from general use. But I’m not holding my breath.

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The site has a clickable corner ad promo to get people to “spread the word”. I thought using CSS3 there would be a better way to position such a corner advertisement (or promo, or whatever), because the clickable area for the ad on ScriptSrc.net is actually too big. In some cases, you might prefer the clickable area to be bigger, but I think it’s always best to keep the clickable area limited to the actual ad.

The Clickable Area is too Big

On the ScriptSrc.net website, the clickable area on the corner promo is naturally a square, because all page elements in HTML are square or rectangular. This is indicated in the image below:

Maybe they don’t care that this is the case, or maybe they prefer it that way, so it gets more clicks. I personaly feel it’s more usable if the actual corner section is the only clickable area.

CSS3 Transforms to the Rescue

If you’ve become familiar with some new CSS3 enhancements, you probably know that elements can be rotated. We can use this to make the corner promo more usable. Here is the CSS:

#corner-ad {
display: block;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
position: absolute;
top: -100px;
rightright: -100px;
-webkit-transform: rotate(45deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(45deg);
-o-transform: rotate(45deg);
}

(NOTE: The syntax highlighter I’m using displays the CSS property “right” as “rightright”, so just ignore that in the code above and below).

Now the only clickable area is the actual corner, so there is no risk that a stray click near the corner triggers the corner promo.

Works in All Browsers (with Hacks for IE)

The great thing about this is that, although the method uses a CSS3 enhancement, Internet Explorer offers rotation capabilities by means of proprietary filters. In the case of my own demo page, I also had to add some IE-version-specific hacks to get the positioning of the ad correct, so there is some extra unwanted code that’s needed to get this to work properly. The following code placed below the original CSS gets it to work in all versions of IE:

#corner-ad {
top: -142px\9;
right: -60px\9;
*right: -140px;
filter:  progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Matrix(sizingMethod='auto expand', M11=0.7071067811865476, M12=-0.7071067811865475, M21=0.7071067811865475, M22=0.7071067811865476);
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Matrix(SizingMethod='auto expand', M11=0.7071067811865476, M12=-0.7071067811865475, M21=0.7071067811865475, M22=0.7071067811865476)";
zoom: 1;
}

The “transform” code is from Paul Irish’s CSS3, please CSS3 generator, which has recently added support for IE’s matrix rotation filter. The “zoom” property isn’t needed in my example, but it is needed in cases where the element doesn’t have layout.

Check out the demo using the button below.

DEMO

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Before delving into the techniques that can be used for search engine optimization, it is useful to appreciate what search engines really look for and the reason why most web sites find it so difficult to deliver.

What Do Search Engines Look For?
In most of the search engine articles you read these days, search engines are portrayed as being quite similar to some serial-killing monster with no clear motives other than to kill and destroy. For instance shock outrage and puzzlement are always expressed when leading search engines change their rules.

The problem is that most people forget that the competition between search engines today is so keen, such that their main motive can only be one thing - to become the leading search engine, and when they get there. To retain that position for as long as possible. It is rather obvious that to achieve this objective they have to remain very focused on the customer. The search customer or client, is the person using their favorite search engine to seek all sorts of information. Everybody prefers to use a search engine that is as quick and useful as possible in getting them the information that they seek. It's really that simple. All changes in policies and rules can only be driven by one thing and one thing alone - to become better in the eyes of he customer.

In deciding your page ranking, search engines will look for links to your sites and not just any links, but quality links meaning sites that have a higher ranking than you do. This tells search engines that other sites they rank highly are linked to you and therefore you must be a useful site and therefore deserve a high rank.

The Biggest Obstacle To Getting Enough Good Links To Please Search Engines

Folks are often advised to submit their sites to search engines and high pagerank directories. The problem is that many of these sites will charge you dearly for the privilege of being listed with them. Yahoo for example charges about $299 annually for a site to be listed in their high traffic directory.

The secret to bear in mind here and what most folks do not know, is that many of these sites that ask for so much money will list you almost immediately and for free if you have good quality links pointing to your site. It is that customer driven motive we were talking about again. Good quality links are links from sites that the search engine already ranks highly. The assumption here is that since you have received a vote of confidence from sites that are already held in high esteem by the search engines, then you are also bound to be a useful site that customers who use the search engine will find useful. The higher page ranking you will receive, as a result will mean better search engine visibility for you and naturally, much higher traffic.

Another strategy used to try and gain quality links is to make an effort to submit your site to various directories for free listing, but it will usually take months for one directory to accept your site.

A Powerful Do-It-Yourself Search Engine Optimization Technique
The way to do it is to start off by creating a web page on your site with a list of links. The idea here is to be adding links to other sites on your links page in exchange for the sites doing the same for you. You will of course be careful to concentrate your efforts on getting links from high page rank web sites. It is advisable to find sites that are related to your product or service.

Usually, to make search engines happy, you should limit each reciprocal links page to 50 links only.

Most sites maintain their reciprocal link pages using LinkMan script from PHPJunkYard. You can download this php script from http://phpjunkyard.com. The really amazing thing about LinkMan script is that it allows a site's visitors to add their links immediately after they add links to the site on their own pages. What his menas is that using the LinkMan script you just need to find the desired sites, add their link to your reciprocal links page, and you can immediately add your link to theirs.

Be careful to meet the requirements of the LinkMan script one of which is to place a notice on your links page stating: "Powered by Link manager LinkMan 1.02 from PHPJunkYard - free php scripts."

The Easy Way To Find High Page Rank Sites
You can easily find sites using Linkman by searching on Google for the exact phrase; "Powered by Link manager LinkMan 1.02 from PHPJunkYard." You can also change the phrase to find sites using earlier versions of LinkMan.

Visit the link pages on the sites with a browser showing their Google pagerank. As soon as you come across a site using LinkMan that has a high Google page rank, simply add their link to your reciprocal links page and then add your link to theirs and you are done. You can then move on to find yet another site that you would like to link to.

It is difficult to beat this amazing, free and instant search engine optimization (SEO) technique that is quick, easy to use and extremely effective.

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2. Use articles as static pages. You can reprint articles on any topic for free by visiting one of the many article directories. Then refer people to read the articles that relate to the post you are making. You could even add one article as a new page every time you make a post.

3. Refer to other posts you have made on your blog or on another one of your blogs while posting. This gets the reader to click over to previous posts. You can even decide your posts by browsing previous posts and deciding which one to follow up on. Those archives are not to be lost and forgotten. Its great material, (you wrote it right?), so use it.

4. Create a page that links to your favorite posts that are timeless. You browse your old posts, find posts that you want readers to find easily, then build a links page with those posts directly linked. Then add a link to that page from your front page. Call it favorite posts or whatever and you will benefit by those that click through and follow those links.

5. I've posted here before about the "more" tag. You write your post as normal, then decide where you want to break the post up onto a new page. You put the more tag in and readers have to click to a new page to read the rest of the story.

6. Write once per week special projects. These are a series of articles on a particular topic. You will be offering it once per week giving readers a week to comment on it, then have them hanging on for next weeks special post in the series. Each time add links to previous posts in that series.

7. Using your content from your other websites or blogs is also a great way to get more pageviews for all of them. Use the target new tag and refer to material on your other blogs and websites. It will open a new window leaving the current blog open while they visit your other website or blog. You can quickly double up your pageviews while also introducing your readers to your other websites and blogs.

8. Make a list of 10 previous posts and the links to those posts. Make a post in your blog about 10 things you want your readers to know and read in case they have not done so before. At your suggestion they will at least go see if they have read those posts before, increasing your pageviews once again plus bringing old material to new readers. That also lets them know they should browse the archives for things they have missed.

9. Using that same list of 10 posts or a new one, visit other blogs on your topic. Find posts that talk about something similar to one of those 10 posts, then instead of adding a link in your signature to the home page, make a comment there and refer to the post that is similar and that contains helpful information to that blogger and their readers. You will also be increasing your link popularity while doing this. Do not spam the link. Make sure it actually contains useful information. Don’t be trolls or spammers and you will end up with new readers and more page views for your blog.

10. Do not stop being creative. Use the tips in this article, plus invent some of your own ways to interlink your blogposts together. Create pages. Don't just post and forget. That content is valuable, use it. Do not make people search your blog. They are lazy and busy. Bring it to them. That is just good customer service.

I hope this article helps you learn there is more to blogging than just writing a post once in awhile or even daily. If you employ the tips I just gave you into your blog I guarantee you will increase your pageviews which in turn will increase your revenue if using an ad program in your blog.

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The first service you will need and cannot have a website without, is a domain name. A domain name is the name given that is used to find your website, for eg: http://www.yourdomainname.com. YOu need a domain name because your business needs recognition and traffic. Instead of promoting other people's sites its best to promote your own. So you realise the value of a domain name? Now there are several free service providers but it is not recomended. If the free service provider runs out of business and closes down for some reason then all your hard work and your business is going to crashlandand and it can definitely happen. when you are choosing your domain name let it be related to your business and easy to remember. The next step is to choose an extension. There are several extension available but .com is the best one to choose.There are several domain registration service providers. choose a good one, do some background check and then decide.185

The next is a webhosting service. I would like to repeat the same thing here, never go for a free service. You will need to do your profitable internet home business in a professional and credible way. With free service providers, there will be advertisements in your site and some may not be of your business interest. Secondly when you want to expand your business, which will come soon enough, and need extra space, you will need to go for paid service since your free service provider will not provide extra space and at that time you loose your old customers and traffic. Hence a good webhosting service is very important. Let us see what webhosting really means. Your website files and all related information and data are stored in your web host server/computers. This is required because your website should be available 24/7 and should be able to accomodate any amount of traffic.150

When choosing your webhosting sevice you will need to look for a few important features you need to run the website like:

1. CGI - BIN, this is required for interactivity of your website.

2. PHP4,

3. uptime, this is the amout of time your site is available for visitors, this should be 24/7 or close

4. excellent cutomer support,

5. setup fees, none

6. space, more the better

7. traffic capacity/ bandwidth, more the better

8. pop email accounts, never less than 10 but unimited is the best

9. site stats, needed to keep track of yor site

10. FTP, atleast one account.

The third most important service is autoresponders. what is an autoresponder? an autoresponder follows up with your website visitors to provide useful information, build trust and ultimetely make some sales. Why does one need an autoresponder? here's why. Majority of the people who visit your website will not buy from you on their first visit. infact, most people do not buy a product on the internet until they have seen it or heard about it atleast 7 time. If you are promoting a product on the internet and you don't have an effective way to capture and follow-up with your website visitors to remind them about the products and services you are promoting, you will lose a lot of sales.

let us summerise, the 3 most important services to run a profitable internet home business are:

a) domain name service

b) webhosting service and

c) autoresponder service.

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1. Submit or Add Your Site to Major Search Engines Search engines submission will increase your Page Ranking and when your web page is ranked in a high ranking positions, your website will be easily searched and seen by internet users if your pages are meeting their relevant search keyword. Focus on major search engines such as Yahoo, Google and MSN. Don’t use the free submission service or fee submission which will submit to many search engines because those services might hurt your page ranking as many has banned by major search engines such as Yahoo and Google.

2. Pay-per-click (CPC) Marketing If you marketing budget is sufficient, you could use Pay-per-click (CPC) marketing service provided by Google (Google Adwords) & Yahoo. CPC is one of very effective way to drive traffic to your website.

3. Audio Postcard for email marketing Internet has been for a short time but it has gone through various revolutions, today, silence web now can start talking and help you to promote your website. AudioGenerator.com is one of leader in providing integrated human voice audio clip which you can be added to your website and email. Because the human voice has the power to influence, motivate, and persuade prospects to click "Order Now" buttons faster and with less resistance. AudioGenerator.com also has audio postcard which can help you drive significant traffic to your website. We had tried the audio postcard of AudioGenerator.com to drive traffic to our website at studykiosk.com, it a proven method.

4. Press Announcement Making press announcement can be one of effective method of create backlinks to your website and it really help in your page ranking positions. Website like prweb.com provide FREE press announcement service, you can utilize it to drive traffic to your website.

5. Articles Submission Articles submission to article bank is one of the best ways to expose your website to the public. There are many visitors drop by these sites to look for related information and your articles might be among their search results.

6. Trade Link Request & One Way Incoming Links One of the search engines optimization is to have as many as possible the incoming links to your website. You could request trade links or link exchanges with other webmaster. One way incoming link is other website link to yours without the need of you to link to them. If you website has useful information to other website, they probably will add a link to their website to link to yours. There many website which provide one-way links service, but almost all of them are need monthly or year subscription fee.

7. RSS Feed Make sure you have an RSS feed URL that people can subscribe to. The acronym RSS means Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication. It is a document type that lists updates of websites or blogs available for syndication.

8. Viral Marketing Viral marketing is another way of say “word-of-mouth”. On internet, “word-of-mouth” spread so fast thru email. The key to successful of viral marketing is to send out something that people want to share. That can be anything from a joke, funny story or link to home-made video.

9. Blogs & Forums Blogs & forums invite comments from readers and most of them will allow you to leave a link in your signature line. One of way to create backlinks and drive traffic to your website.

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One way links and search engine rankings have a great cause and effect relationship. Think of it as a business referral system. The business with the more referrals is most popular and hence, search engines rank them higher. The reason behind it, as many put it, is that the more links you have, higher are the chances of a visitor coming to your site through these links!

Again, the search engines send out spiders to the links they find in the directory pages. This will bring the search engine spiders to your site and will get your site pages added to the search engines indexes automatically.
In future, the new search engines will also follow the same procedure. Hence, you won’t have to register to them, rather they will find you themselves!

You can also improve your sales!

Again, many people actually do surf these directories to look for the things they want. So they will also act as a medium to bring in your prospective customer to your site.
Thus directory submission has three major benefits, which makes it indispensable tool of online marketing.

1.    Higher Position In The Search Engine Results
2.    Web Site Indexed
3.    Click Through Traffic

So that is something one should focus on if they are interested in increasing the rankings and traffic of their site. Many sites who offer submission service, claim to submit your link in more than 75000 directories (mind you, few even claim the figure to be around 7,00,000!). But one should remember that submitting a link and getting it listed in the directory is not the same thing. It is like an auction, you don’t win merely by bidding. Others will just bid for you, but we at Submit2please.com, will make sure that your bid is a success. We will try our level best to insure a high rate of acceptance. We also assure you that the process will not be much time consuming and the results will start pouring in within a fortnight.

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Just take a look at all the free tools offered all over the internet that practically force the search engines to index you. Take a hint and follow the links on this site, they take you to amazing free optimization tools.

So here are the basic steps that got this domain re-indexed after being banned.

1. Added content- index.php | experiment.html | report.html | paid-directories.html
2. Put together an article about the 'Website Directory Submission Experiment'
3. Submit the article to digg.com, please if you are a member please then digg this story!
3. Wait as long as I can to submit our article below to 640 Article Directories with Article Submitter.
I want this website submission experiment webpage to be indexed by google first! This will secure that your domain is the original source article and then we will not go into the googles suplimentals index. We do not want google to assume an articles site which we submitted to is the article source. Make sure you get your articles into the big article directories!
4. Continue to submit to the web directory database.
5. SEO TECHNIQUES
- Placed TARGET="BLANK" on all outgoing links I have so many outlinks to very reputable sources. It is smart to keep people on your site, so let them view your suggested outgoing urls, but always leave your site page open. I even placed TARGET="BLANK" on affiliate links such as

Website Submitter | Article Submitter
Then I went ahead and placed up meta tags with an off beat title to the site
<.title>That is only 10c for a permanent link pointing to your website!<.title>
its actually a one line sales pitch. In the description i just cut a block of text out of my main body
<.meta name="Description" content="We will hand submit YOUR site to 2000 FREE DIRECTORIES for $200 US That is only 10c for a permant link pointing to your website! Compare that with adwords | SEO search engine optimization is link building." /.> and pasted it straight in as the meta description. I also use this description across all directory site submissions and acticle site submissions.

Also FORCE GOOGLE to visit your site in everyway possible
1. Reinclusion request.
2. ADD URL.
3. Place Adsense.
4. Place a google search form on your site.
5. Set-up adwords campaign and force google to scan your sites keywords! How?
Use the capaign keywords tool and select the option 'Site Related Keywords'
Here is what Google scanned, so we can see an insight into what Google thinks about this site, and it's a perfect result!
5. Setup an Adwords Campaign using the suggested keywords, create some Adwords Adds. I have posted my Adds below!
6. I added the very important OnlyWire button
7. Place your domain to these directories ASAP!
8. Free email subscription service set up on the site for you to sign up to receive our SEO strategy techniques and discounts.
9. Placed a free translation script on the site to cater for foreign language visitors. 10 x the pages to index for the engines.
PS. please note that we are already indexed in Google and MSN Live after one day, 20 September 2007.

Will it last?
Probably not as we will be indexed but now categorized and themed and adjusted within the SERPs.
So we will come and go - but indexed for two major engines within two days is very good!

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This is also a good way to get ideas. What are other people in your field writing about? What are the major challenges of the people in your field? If you have competitors, check them out. They may be a great help in inspiring you for content ideas, different slants and perspectives. The old song, “Anything you can do, I can do better,” comes to mind.

2. Ask readers to comment on your blog. In fact, each time you post something, ask them a question. Then spell it out to them on how to post a comment because your readers will probably need to be educated or at least encouraged to comment. ("Click on the comment link in the footer of this post, and leave your responses.")

Sometimes readers will need assurances of privacy, in which case, you can ask them to email you their questions or comments in private. Others are not worried about privacy because after all, a blog isn’t meant to be private. However, readers can be shy about commenting, and need encouragement.

You may also encourage them to respond by telling them that you would like to use their replies in your book, but will only do so with their permission.

3. Survey your readers, do a mini-study on their preferences, their experiences, etc. The Internet is the fastest way to acquire some statistics of readers’ preferences. Far from being a scientifically validated study that would pass muster in universities with academicians, an informal survey can give you ideas and material to write about. It can also confirm that you are addressing the concerns of your readers.

4. Run a contest for the best idea, funniest experience, most influential or heart-grabbing situation. If you want to use these readers’ responses for content in your book, you should tell them. Many people jump at the chance to be included in a book. Others may prefer to participate anonymously. You can give them both options.

Here’s an example of how one writer asked his readers for input:

Do You Have A Broken WIndows Story?
Michael Levine's new book, Broken WIndows, Broken Business is being released later this month. Many people feel this is going to be a mega best-seller.

We have set up a website, where you can rant about broken windows in your everyday experience... Check it out at BrokenWindows.com.

People love to share their experiences, and they love to rant, or rave. Just ask.

5. Ask your readers to attend a teleseminar based on the needs, challenges, concepts and ideas of your blog readers. This is a great way to go deeper into the problems and solutions you are writing about. You can record the sessions, transcribe the dialogue, convert the teleseminar to audio and PDF files. These can be sold, or given away as marketing materials for your book.

6. Use your blog site meter stats to examine what are the most popular articles posted. This information will guide you to expand on the topics and subtopics that capture the interests of readers.

7. Consistently reconnect with your passion, and ignite and inspire others with similar interests. After you’ve been blogging for awhile, you will probably develop good blogging habits:

a. Write something on your blog daily, or at least 2-3 times a week.

b. Read other blogs 2-3 times a week. Be sure to use the My Yahoo or other RSS feed buttons to subscribe to your favorite blogs, or sign up to get email updates through a FeedBlitz service on each blog.

c. Write with your readers in mind. And if you’re not sure where their interests lie, ask them. If they’ve found your blog, and have subscribed, chances are you share a lot in common.

d. If you ever fall into blog-block, reconnect with your core purpose for the blog (remember, the one you wrote out before starting your blog?). When this happens there is usually a reason, although it may not be clear to you at the time. This will pass. You can help it along by asking questions – of your readers, yourself, your closest allies.

8. Podcasting – Create audio files easily by scheduling teleclasses and recording them. Some people like to get their information auditorily and at their convenience by downloading mp3 files to their iPods.

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We would like to extend an offer to begin general testing of this new build in production environments. In order to update to this build, the following steps must be followed:

Update to 11.25.0 DNSONLY-BETA:

1. Update /etc/cpupdate.conf, changing "CPANEL=dnsonly" to "CPANEL=dnsonly-beta".

2. Update the installation by running "/scripts/upcp"

Downgrade to 11.24.4 DNSONLY:

1. Update /etc/cpupdate.conf, changing "CPANEL=dnsonly-beta" to "CPANEL=dnsonly".

2. Update the installation by running "/scripts/upcp"

The final build of 11.25.0 DNSONLY to replace 11.24.4 DNSONLY will be released on April 13, 2010. Following its release, you will no longer be able to install or downgrade your DNSONLY servers to 11.24.4.

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LONDON, March 2, 2010

The April release of Ubuntu 10.04 will be the third long term support release. During its March webinar series, Canonical will explain the significant progress that the previous long term release has made in the server and desktop markets, steps that have moved the operating system from the fringes to the core of computing for millions of individuals and thousands of business in every geography and market.

“Ubuntu has for several years been the fastest growing operating system on server and desktop,” said Steve George, director of Corporate Services at Canonical. “10.04 LTS is the obvious on-ramp for an ISV to become part of the Ubuntu story, and we will make it a frictionless process to bring certified applications to millions of server and desktop users.”

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The IBM Client for Smart Work, based on IBM productivity and collaboration software, helps organisations save up to 50 percent per seat on software costs versus a Microsoft-based desktop, in addition to avoiding requisite hardware upgrades. The package allows companies to use their existing PCs, lower-cost netbooks and thin clients.

"We are very pleased to put a specific support program in place that IBM and Canonical partners can start to deliver," said Steve George, VP (Sales and Product Management), Corporate Services at Canonical. "With IBM we are slashing the costs to business for their basic productivity suite. Faced with the upgrade costs to Windows 7 many organizations are rightly considering an alternative. Ubuntu and the IBM Client for Smart Work represents that alternative."

The open standards-based core solution comprises of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition and Lotus Symphony, which includes word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations, fully supported by Canonical at $5.50 per user, per month based on 1000 seat deployment.

Optional solution components include desktop virtualisation and recovery options using VERDE from Virtual Bridges, and a variety of Lotus collaboration capabilities with choice of delivery model: on premise, on the cloud, or using an appliance.

"The economic case for Ubuntu and the IBM Client for Smart Work is unarguable," says Shiv Kumar, EVP of Sales at ZSL, one of the first IBM and Canonical partners to make this solution available. "The addition of support from Canonical at super-competitive pricing means companies have the reassurance of world class support through the entire stack. We are really excited about bringing this option to our new and existing clients and providing them with cost savings and productivity improvements at a stroke."

"We have seen tremendous interest in this solution since we launched it initially in Africa and more recently in the United States," said Bob Sutor, VP Linux and Open Source at IBM. "Canonical's support program for Ubuntu and ICSW offers our partners a great package to bring to their customers and we look forward to more of them signing up to do just that. For customers looking to break the cycle of license fee renewals and upgrade costs for Windows a real alternative is here."

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LONDON, December 10, 2009

Used by Ubuntu and thousands of other open source and commercial projects, Bazaar (bzr) is a version control system (vcs) that supports distributed development environments. Many existing version control systems use a centralised model, a particular challenge to globally distributed 'chase the sun' development teams, or environments where there is a frequent need to merge or branch code. Although bzr itself is open source, there is no requirement for commercial projects to make their code publicly available.

Sun Microsystems migrated the code for its MySQL database software a year ago, using bzr conversion and support services. "We wanted to use a tool which suited our distributed contributor model for MySQL, but we needed the reassurance of access to the Bazaar development team through our transition and use of the vcs," said Jeffrey Pugh, vice president of MySQL Engineering, Sun Microsystems. "We have found bzr works really well for our model, and that the bzr support team and developers have been responsive to our requirements."

“The increasingly distributed nature of software development has allowed Bazaar to grow in popularity,” said Martin Pool, project manager at Canonical. “Our Consultancy & Conversion, Training and Support services give new and existing customers piece of mind when setting up such a vital piece of infrastructure.”

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In each case, typically the event will happen sometime in the first two months of the quarter, so that we can ensure all bills are paid by Red Hat's financial deadlines. That deadline usually comes a couple weeks before the end of quarter, so the first two months are the ideal time to actually stage an event. So the North American FUDCon event will happen in either December 2010 or January 2011. The bidders will work with the Community Architecture team to resolve the exact timing.

In the past we've often heard from community members that they'd love to have an event in a warmer clime during the chilly winter months. We couldn't agree more, and now we have a way to empower our community to make that happen. FUDCon Honolulu? Maybe not, but we're open to other possibilities! We want to find a place for the next North American event that includes:

• Reasonable travel, room and board costs
• Availability of inexpensive or free event space
• A little warmer than Boston (we hope!)
• Active FOSS/other interested communities that might like to attend
• Consideration of academic schedules for students who want to attend

• Consideration of holidays for people in North America
• One or more organizing Fedora community members with the time and energy to help prepare

We now have a bid process that lets interested community members propose FUDCon in their region, or even backyard. Nothing Olympic style -- simply a way for excited Fedora folks in the locale to help secure event space, lodging, and other logistical details. We've already kicked this process off for FUDCon Zurich 2010, and are looking to start this cycle for North America as well. In the summer, after FUDCon Santiago concludes, we will kick the same process off for Latin America again for a 2011 conference.

So here's what you need to do to get the ball rolling:

• Join the fudcon-planning list and let us know you want to bid.

• Make a wiki page called [[FUDCon:Bid_for_<Your_Town>_2011]], with the information outlined on the bid process[3] page.

The bid process will be open for a period of approximately 3 weeks. At that point the FPL and Community Architecture teams, as major

stakeholders in the event, will go through the bids and make a decision on where we'll locate FUDCon North America. "

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Update release features new hardware platform enablement, expanded virtualization capabilities and enhanced interoperability

Raleigh, NC - March 30, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of the fifth update to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5. Adding features designed to operate across physical, virtual and cloud deployments, the update offers enhanced virtualization and interoperability capabilities combined with support for important new hardware platforms. As with all Red Hat updates, application compatibility and certification with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform is fully maintained, meaning the broad portfolio of certified applications for Red Hat Enterprise Linux applies to the new update. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 is available to subscribing customers via Red Hat Network today.

In addition to overall platform enhancements and bug fixes, this update provides support for new platforms being delivered by several Red Hat partners, including AMD, Dell, HP, IBM and Intel. Newly supported platforms include Intel® Nehalem® EX, AMD Opteron (TM) 6000 Series (formerly codenamed "Magny Cours") and IBM Power 7. This allows Red Hat customers to take advantage of some of the industry's most powerful new servers.

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AMD platforms together provide our customers with compelling datacenter reliability and flexibility," said Margaret Lewis, director, Software Solutions Marketing at AMD (NYSE: AMD). "The latest technology enhancements in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 combined with our new 8- and 12-Core AMD Opteron 6000 Series platforms offer customers improved performance while still maintaining low power consumption, helping to lower total cost of ownership."

"Through the combination of Dell PowerEdge servers and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, customers are offered a scalable, high-performance, affordable solution," said Sally Stevens, vice president of Enterprise Platform Marketing at Dell. "New technology advancements in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5, coupled with Dell's 11th generation of servers, give users a robust platform for running their mission-critical applications on an industry-standard x86 architecture."

"Rising operational costs are driving clients to seek higher performance technology solutions at a lower cost," said Scott Farrand, vice president, Infrastructure Software & Blades at HP. "The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 on energy-efficient HP ProLiant servers and HP BladeSystem with Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology provides clients a high-performance, low-cost platform to run demanding Linux workloads in virtualized environments."

"IBM's new eX5 hardware combined with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 brings new levels of flexibility and scalability to the enterprise, particularly with the additional memory capabilities of the new platform," said Jean Staten Healy, head of IBM's Linux strategy.  "eX5 together with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization provide a powerful technology foundation for today's mission-critical infrastructures."

"With today's delivery of new technologies from both Red Hat and Intel, we are continuing to help define the datacenter of the future," said Doug Fisher, vice president of the Software and Services Group and general manager of the Systems Software Division at Intel Corporation. "The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 and 5600 series delivers powerful performance, energy efficiency, scalability and reliability across physical and virtual systems that brings new opportunities for our joint customers."

In the fourth update to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform, delivered in September 2009, Red Hat introduced the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor alongside the Xen hypervisor. Today's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 update provides a number of virtualization enhancements. Support for the large memory systems of new servers allows a larger number of virtual machines to be deployed on each physical server. With greater guest density customers have an opportunity to achieve higher levels of consolidation and reduce costs. Huge page support is now automatic and extended to virtual guests, improving the performance of memory-intensive applications. Support for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) offers virtual guests an improved ability to share PCI hardware resources and more efficient access I/O devices. As a result, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is one of the first operating systems designed to be capable of hosting a virtual guest that can saturate a 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Further I/O optimizations, which enable easier device reassignment, can help improve flexibility when migrating virtual guests across physical systems. In combination, these enhancements aim to allow large-scale, I/O bound, enterprise applications to be readily virtualized.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 also offers Microsoft Windows 7 interoperability enhancements and extends Active Directory integration, allowing improved user and group mapping, while simplifying filesystem management across platforms.

"We believe that Red Hat Enterprise Linux continues to drive the evolution of the operating platform forward with new technology that delivers performance, reliability, scalability and affordability results for our customers," said Tim Burke, vice president, Engineering, Platform Engineering at Red Hat. "Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a powerful foundation for physical, virtual and cloud deployments, and for many, continues to be the platform of choice for their most demanding mission-critical workloads."

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