In light of recent discussions on IBM-MAIN, IBMVM and elsewhere... This is a fantastic collection of useful documents on Linux and Unix management and scalability, with a rising amount of content on virtualization and virtual machines (and even some good papers from other parts of IBM on the pSeries and iSeries virtualization plans). Well worth reading.
SHARE: this is your competition. Their stuff shows up in Google searches. Yours doesn't. How do you plan to compete in the future? > From: Matt Blaze > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:03 PM > Subject: All online USENIX proceedings now free > > I'm delighted to report that USENIX, probably the most important > technical society at which I publish (and on whose board I serve), > has taken a > long- > overdue lead toward openly disseminating scientific research. Effective > immediately, all USENIX proceedings and papers will be freely > available on the > USENIX web site as soon as they are published. (Previously, most of the > organization's proceedings required a member login for access for the > first year > after their publication.) The proceedings are available at: > http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ > > For years, many authors have made their papers available on their own > web sites, > but the practice is haphazard, non-archivial, and, remarkably, > actively discouraged > by the restrictive copyright policies of many journals and > conferences. So USENIX's > step is important both substantively and symbolically. It reinforces > why scientific > papers are published in the first place: not as a proprietary revenue > source, but to > advance the state of the art for the benefit of society as a whole. > > Unfortunately, other major technical societies that sponsor > conferences and journals > still cling to the antiquated notion, rooted in a rapidly- > disappearing print-based > publishing economy, that they naturally "own" the writings that > volunteer authors, > editors and reviewers produce. These organizations, which insist on > copyright control > as a condition of publication, argue that the sale of conference > proceedings and journal > subscriptions provides an essential revenue stream that subsidizes > their other good works. > But this income, however well it might be used, has evolved into an > ill-gotten windfall. > We write scientific papers first and last because we want them read. > When papers were > actually printed on paper it might have been reasonable to expect > authors to donate the > copyright in exchange for production and distribution. Today, of > course, such a model > seems at best quaintly out of touch with the needs of researchers and > academics who can > no longer tolerate the delay or expense of seeking out printed copies > of documents they > expect to find on the web. > > Organizations devoted to computing research should recognize this not- > so-new reality better > than anyone. It's time for ACM and IEEE to follow USENIX's leadership > in making scientific > papers freely available to all comers. Let's urge them to do so. > > Matt Blaze > http://www.crypto.com/blog
