Get Ubuntu Server Edition Download

You can download Ubuntu Server Edition now – it's completely free.

Lean, fast and powerful, Ubuntu Server delivers services reliably, predictably and economically – and it easily integrates with your existing infrastructure.

Why use Ubuntu Server?

Easy integration

Ubuntu Server mixes effortlessly with Ubuntu, Windows or Mac OS environments. All clients can share authentication, swap files and access services, while Open LDAP, Likewise-Open and PAM authentication come as standard.

Virtualise everything

Virtualise your servers with Ubuntu Server and KVM. Use a secure, lean version of Ubuntu as a guest operating system for your application and create virtual machine images in minutes. KVM, Xen, VMWare and LXC are all supported.

EC2 or UEC

Build flexible computing environments in your own infrastructure with Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) or deploy to Amazon EC2 using Ubuntu Server Edition images.

Built-in security

Tighten security by defining access to specific users and programs. Uncomplicated firewall technology makes access secure yet simple, while a home and private directory encryption service adds another layer of security.

Minimise administration

Simplify operations like start-up, shut-down and package management with single commands. Deploy services in seconds or set up industry-standard mail, virtualisation, Java applications or database servers in minutes.

Visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/server

Microsoft Ultimate Steal - Office Professional Academic 2010 $79.95

$79.95

Microsoft is offering this Ultimate Steal - Microsoft Office Professional Academic 2010 for $79.95. UPDATE: Windows 7 Professional Upgrade is available for $64.95. Click on the link above and look under Other Student Deals.
You must meet both of these requirements:
(1) You must have a valid e-mail address at an educational institution (with or without the .EDU suffix, depending on the school)
(2) You must be a student at a US educational institution, actively enrolled in at least 0.5 course credit and be able to provide proof of enrollment upon request.

MySQL 5.5 Live!

MySQL Database 5.5

The MySQL Database powers the most demanding Web, E-commerce and Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) applications. It is a fully integrated transaction-safe, ACID compliant database with full commit, rollback, crash recovery and row level locking capabilities. MySQL delivers the ease of use, scalability, and performance that has made MySQL the world's most popular open source database. Some of the world's most trafficked websites like Facebook, Google, ticketmaster, and eBay rely on MySQL for their business critical applications.

The MySQL Database 5.5 improves performance and scalability on multi-processor hardware architectures. The new replication monitoring and manageability features provide developers and DBAs with improved tools for building high performance, scalable applications. In addition, the MySQL Performance Schema provides low-level insight into MySQL database performance metrics.
MySQL Database 5.5 delivers enterprise features, including:

• Improved! Up to 1500% faster performance on Windows
• Improved! Up to 370% faster performance on Linux
• Improved! Better scalabilty on modern, multi-core, multi-CPU hardware
• New! Performance Schema for monitoring MySQL server run-time performance
• New! Semi-synchronous replication to ensure data consistency and redundancy
• New! Replication Heartbeat to immediately uncover replication interruptions
• New! Partitioning options for faster lookups
• New! Easier development and debugging of stored procedures, functions, and triggers
• Reliability requiring little or no intervention to achieve continuous uptime
• Ease of use with "15 minutes to success" installation and configuration
• Low administration with very little database maintenance required
• Replication providing flexible topologies for scale-out and high availability
• Partitioning to improve performance and management of very large database environments
• ACID Transactions to build reliable and secure business critical applications
• Stored Procedures to improve developer productivity
• Triggers to enforce complex business rules at the database level
• Views to ensure sensitive information is not compromised
• Information Schema to provide easy access to metadata

More Information can be found at http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/database/