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Have you ever wondered what Twitter knows about you, but never found the motivation to request a copy of the information they store about you? Andy didn’t only do that, but he wrote a blog post about what Twitter knows about him and did some analysis on the data.

In the last weeks I’ve been asked twice about the future of Lotus Symphony and OpenOffice. To learn more about this I’d definitely recommend you read the post Ed wrote after the release of Apache OpenOffice 3.4.

On April 24 IBM announced the release of WebSphere Application Server V8.5 and it’s especially exciting to see our innovation in the application server space continue with this very strong release.

It includes the following new capabilities:

• Liberty Profile
• Application Edition Management
• Intelligent Routing Capabilities
• Application Server Health Management
• Dynamic Clustering
• Support for Java SE 7

This new version of WAS will eGA on June 15, 2012, and GA on July 13, 2012.

Two weeks ago IBM announced a new category of systems called Expert Integrated Systems. The IBM PureSystems family initially consists of two products. The most interesting for me is the PureApplication System, which combines Compute Nodes, Storage, Networking, and Middleware Software into one easy to manage platform as a service.

The PureApplication System provides a unique opportunity for our clients to focus on what’s important for their business instead of integrating, assembling, and testing all these components on their own and gives them a time to value that has never been achieved before.

To get an overview of the IBM PureSystems Family, watch the video below, or attend Jason’s Keynote tomorrow at IMPACT.

The ultimate test: Running WAS Liberty Profile on the Raspberry Pi

The blog post by Red Hat’s Technical Marketing Manager Shane K Johnson titled Head to Head – JBoss v IBM seems really strange to me, but I’m not too familiar with Red Hat’s competitive JBoss offerings.

Is Red Hat really comparing a perpetual license from IBM for commercial software to a one-year software subscription from Red Hat?

Why would an open source company compare total cost of acquisition instead of total cost of ownership?

I’m not going to get into a discussion of what technical details might be wrong in that post, but I’m seriously confused now.

Bob Sutor presented a session on IBM’s Mobile Strategy at MWC 2012 this week. He also talked about IBM’s intent to acquire Worklight and how it fits into IBM’s mobile strategy.

If you’ve worked on web performance tuning over the last few years you’ve probably run into Yahoo YSlow and Google Page Speed. YSlow is now distributed and run as a free software project and source code, issues, and contributions will be managed on its own GitHub repository. Happy forking!

Earlier today the Mozilla project released the first Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox. The ESR is based on Firefox 10, which was also released today. If you wanted a Firefox version that’s not updating all the time, but is stable to use and gets security updates for at least a year, you might want to check out the Firefox ESR FAQ, which also contains the download links, and give it a try.

ifconfig, netstat, and route were apparently deprecated on Linux because they don’t support all the Linux kernel’s fancy networking features. The cool new stuff is called iproute2 and includes some obscure ip command. I realized that after reading a post on Martin’s blog a few days ago.

If you think iproute2 is new, you’re mistaken. It was actually released over 10 years ago, I just happened to not notice that until now. Maybe it’s time to move to BSD like all the other old people and leave Linux to the kids.