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May 19, 2008
Community-Powered Open Source Awards Just Got More Open
SourceForge.net Opens Nominations for 2008 Community Choice Awards to All Open Source Projects read more...
May 16, 2008
Q&A: Sun exec ponders OpenSolaris, Linux
Ian Murdock is vice president of developer and community marketing at Sun Microsystems Inc. Prior to that, he was the founder of the Debian Linux distribution and chief technology officer at the Linux Foundation. read more...
Open source better at release management? Maybe not
It's unfortunate that Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth doesn't blog more often, because when he does, it's invariably insightful. As a case in point, Mark's post about the superiority of open source at hitting release dates is wonderful. read more...
May 15, 2008
Sun to clarify JavaFX open-source plan later this year
While Sun executives have said that JavaFX, the company's nascent rich Internet application (RIA) development product family and eventual competitor to Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight, will be entirely open source, a FAQ page on Sun's site appears to contradict that. read more...
Open-source tool creates OOXML docs for the blind
Microsoft has helped develop an open-source tool that translates Word files into a "talking" digital book format, which makes documents easily accessible for the 160 million people worldwide with impaired vision. read more...
May 14, 2008
Is Cisco vulnerable to open source?
A few years ago Cisco accidentally put some open source code in one of its Linksys routers. It released the code, then quickly brought out a new, closed source version. read more...
OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta is ready for testing
The OpenOffice.org Community is pleased to announce that the public beta release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now available. This beta release is made available to allow a broad user base to test and evaluate the next major version of OpenOffice.org, but is not recommended for production use at this stage. read more...
May 13, 2008
Read the Fine Print on "Open Source" Software
Back in the 1980s, when Richard Stallman was the only one talking about the need for "free software," no one quite knew what he was talking about. read more...
JavaFX: Open source or not?
Will JavaFX, Sun's new rich Internet applications platform, be open source? That's certainly the impression that many took away from JavaOne. read more...
May 09, 2008
Irish Open Source Technology Conference 2008
The Irish Open Source Technology Conference are pleased to announce the inclusion of OpenIreland, the association that represents individuals and businesses who believe that open source and open standards benefit the Irish ICT industry and its customers. read more...
Sun Microsystems Announces Technology Preview of Open Source Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server
The FINANCIAL -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and the GlassFish community on May 7 announced the immediate availability of the technology preview release of the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server version 3 and new Sun GlassFish Communications Server. read more...
May 08, 2008
The Open Source Era
Research indicates open source is gaining momentum, and there are significant amounts of money coming from the investment community into open source vendors. read more...
May 07, 2008
Open Source Embrace Gives Sun New Fans
Prelude conference to JavaOne highlights Linux, Ruby and MySQL. Welcome to the new Sun Microsystems. read more...
IP PBXs built on open-source show promise
These products could go a long way in easing IT fears about dealing with open source VOIP products read more...
May 06, 2008
Sun to unveil open-source Solaris version
Sun Microsystems will unveil a new open-source version of its Solaris operating system, which it hopes will entice a wide audience of developers to use in Web-based applications and other projects, as the company kicks off its annual developer conference in San Francisco today. read more...
Karnataka Elections.. Who Will Win?.. An open source methodology.
We have been discussing the CNN-IBN poll on Karnataka elections in these columns. The CNN-IBN poll prediction that Congress is expected to get majority in Karnataka has been widely criticized as “motivated”. read more...
May 05, 2008
AMD reveals open source client management tool
AMD TODAY GAVE OUT details about open source tools it hopes will quicken the take-up of the Distributed Management Task Force's (DMTF's) desktop and mobile architecture for system hardware (Dash) standard. read more...
Self-promotion: Gartner selects MuleSource as Cool Vendor in SOA Governance
I think it's a great thing to see the big analyst firms recognize open source products and companies as key players in today's software world. read more...
May 02, 2008
The Top 75 Open Source Security Apps
About a year ago, we took a look at the growing trend toward open-source security and highlighted 10 of the best apps available. Since then, the area has continued to mature, and now we're back highlighting 75 of the most frequently downloaded open-source security applications. read more...
Microsoft Uses Open Source To Extend Systems Management To Linux
Microsoft is extending its management software to Linux and Unix by integrating some of the open source OpenPegasus project's code into System Center Operations Manager. read more...
