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Archive for February, 2008

The seven largest Open Source deals ever

To say that there were some noise on the Web when Sun recently bought MySQL for $1 billion would be an understatement, to say the least. It’s the largest open source deal ever, and the latest in a series of large open source acquisitions. We kind of understand why Sun thought MySQL was worth a [...]

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A good January for Pingdom

Pingdom showed up in a lot of places last month, both in press, blogs and forums, including a positive review in Microsoft’s TechNet Magazine and also being on the front page of both Digg and Reddit. We keep growing and January was another good month for us, something we are of course very happy about. [...]

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Old Mac server survives Digg and just keeps on ticking

In November we posted a list in our blog of old Apple Macs that are being used as web servers. Being an uptime monitoring service, we figured we would monitor their uptime and see how they were performing. The post actually ended up on the front page of Digg, which threw an unexpected amount of [...]

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Geek domino

We’ve all seen those cool movies with endless lines of toppling domino bricks. However, there is way geekier stuff you can use instead of domino bricks… 1. Actual PCs What do you do if you have 86 extra PCs lying around? You can either give them away, perhaps to poor kids or something. Or you [...]

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