2008
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Jan 23, 2008
Zend targets enterprise PHP with app server, IDE
San Francisco - Focusing on the enterprise, PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) tools vendor Zend Technologies is shipping Tuesday version 3.6 of its Zend Platform application server for PHP as well as Zend Studio for Eclipse, an IDE for PHP based on Eclipse open source technology. read more...
5 Things Open Source Needs In 2008
More hardware support and better communication from Microsoft are just two of the things the open-source community must get in 2008 to continue its momentum. read more...
Jan 22, 2008
Govt agencies view open source as positive: survey
Agencies expect to increase open source use, vendor support remains a concern read more...
Sun SPOT technology set for open source
Sun is set to open-source everything related to SPOT, from hardware to software, but a user questions Sun's commitment to the technology read more...
Jan 21, 2008
Yahoo To Become an OpenID Provider, Giving 248 Million Users Web-Wide Identities
In what can only be described as a huge victory for the OpenID foundation, Yahoo has announced it will become an OpenID provider at the end of January. read more...
Open source on the big screen: Matt Ebb tells tales of Elephants Dream
Lead artist from Elephants Dream speaks about what it is like to make your own open movie using open source tools and the power of the community. read more...
Jan 18, 2008
Mozilla Interfaces to Get 'Humanized,' Developer Says
Mozilla should soon be experimenting with some novel user-interface technologies for its browser and other products, according to a UI developer that joined Mozilla this week from startup company Humanized. read more...
Was MySQL Worth $1B to Sun?
Sun Microsystems' purchase of MySQL for $1 billion is not only the largest open-source deal yet, it's almost bigger than all previous open-source deals combined, including RedHat's $326 million buy of JBoss, Citrix's $500 million purchase of XenSource and Yahoo's $350 million acquisition of Zimbra. read more...
2007 earns Apache more feathers in its cap
Open source and all-volounteer group, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), today announced that last year finished as its strongest yet. Not only does this indicate just what most already know - that open source is growing from strength to strength - but also that it doesn’t take big money and a for-profit attitude for this to happen. read more...
Jan 17, 2008
Open source helps SAAS vendor's systems scale "non-linearly"
Aria Systems provides applications that let companies perform automated billing services. Aria uses open source to deliver a product that costs its customers less than products built on proprietary software while providing them with secure, efficient, easy-to-use billing. CEO and founder Ed Sullivan says one factor that contributed to his idea for a better billing system came from his experience as a paying customer playing the popular Ultima Online game. read more...
Sun buys MySQL for $1 billion
Sun Microsystems has agreed to buy MySQL AB, the developers of the popular open source MySQL database, for “approximately” $1 billion. Both MySQL AB and Sun issued press releases today announcing the surprise deal. read more...
EU goes after Microsoft, again
European Union regulators are again investigating Microsoft, this time on the suspicion that the company abused its position to squeeze out competing Internet browsers and software rivals dependent on its programs. The EU is also investigating whether Microsoft’s document format, Office Open XML, is “sufficiently interoperable with competitors’ products”. read more...
Jan 14, 2008
Automating Firefox with iMacros
Do you have some mundane task that you have to do regularly through a Web browser? Are you a developer who wants to automatically test the interface of your latest Web application? Maybe you want to log into all of the sites you visit on a daily basis with one click. If you fall into any of these categories, you should check out the iMacros Firefox extension. read more...
Gentoo founder offers to return as president
Daniel Robbins, the original creator of the Gentoo Linux distribution, has offered to return to the Gentoo Foundation as president in order to resolve what he described as the recent “Gentoo leadership crisis“. read more...
Jan 12, 2008
Rocket Linux To Launch At CES
The startup that used Linux on the fast-selling $199 Wal-Mart PC last November will launch version 2.0 of its gOS operating system, dubbed Rocket, Monday in Las Vegas. read more...
Open source entering the mobile computing space
San Francisco - Open-source strategies are gathering steam in the mobile computing realm with companies like Wake3 and Funambol leveraging open source to bring iPhone-style browsing and e-mail to devices. read more...
Jan 10, 2008
Sun Shines In Solaris 10, Linux Comparison
Jim Laurent at Sun Microsystems composed a chart comparing Solaris 10 to Linux for his boss, Bill Vass, chief operating officer of Sun's federal business unit. When Vass posted the chart for public viewing, Laurent commented on it in his personal blog in late December. read more...
Linus Torvalds still sticking with GPL 2
San Francisco - Linux creator Linus Torvalds, in an interview being made public by the Linux Foundation Tuesday, stressed that version 2 of the GPL (GNU General Public License) still makes the most sense for the Linux kernel over the newer GPL version 3. read more...
Jan 09, 2008
Open Source Predictions For 2008
Top 10 Open-Source Software Stories of 2007 read more...
OpenMoko To Unveil Open Source Smartphone
OpenMoko, a community-driven effort to create an open platform for mobile devices, is getting ready to unveil a mass-market version of a mobile phone based on open source principles. read more...
