June
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Jun 23, 2008
Acquia commercializing Drupal open-source publishing platform
While blogging platforms like WordPress and Movable Type have considerable name recognition among Web users, few outside the development community know about this flexible and open-source content management system Drupal, which powers sites like Sony BMG's Myplay, PopSci.com, and the Web 2.0 blog Center Networks. read more...
Managed Services, the Open Source Way
Untangle's partnerships with N-able, Kaseya and Level Platforms may signal a move toward open architecture. read more...
Jun 12, 2008
iPhone 2.0 lets open source in through back door
With the first Apple iPhone open source developers were like burglars breaking windows, forcing their software onto the device. read more...
The Law Goes Open Source
A new breed of online services is putting the law within the reach of everybody - Philip Rosenthal and Edward Walters were young lawyers at Covington & Burling, a prestigious Washington firm, when they got an unusual request from a large corporate client to start looking up legal case histories on the Internet. read more...
Jun 11, 2008
Microsoft Pulls 'Open Source' Release, Apologizes
The director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab Sam Ramji posted an apology on Friday for not releasing the source code for one of its open source projects. read more...
EnterpriseDB Recruits New CEO from Red Hat
EnterpriseDB CEO Andy Astor Steps Aside so Ed Boyajian Can Take the Company to the Proverbial Next Level read more...
Jun 10, 2008
Mozilla's open source phone system
What does Mozilla - arguably the most popular open source project in the world - use for its telephony solution? It shouldn't surprise you that they use a solution built in open source should it? read more...
Open-source Asterisk appliance takes on Nortel
Hardware bundled with an open-source platform allowing developers to tweak the software to their telephony needs read more...
Jun 09, 2008
Railo Goes Open Source on JBoss.org
Swiss software company Railo announced today plans to release an open source version of the Railo CFML engine hosted at JBoss.org, the website of the leading provider of open source Java middleware. read more...
Microsoft's non-open source attempt at open source
Microsoft has evolved in its stance toward open source, but its current hiccup with the Sandcastle project calls into question just how well it understands the obligations open source imposes. read more...
Jun 06, 2008
Delta Dental of Virginia Deploys Pentaho Open BI Suite to Support Next Phase of Growth
Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), today announced that Delta Dental of Virginia (DDVA) has deployed the ETL and reporting components of Pentaho Open BI Suite to support the next phase of the organization's phenomenal growth. read more...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Directory Server Win SIIA CODiE Awards
Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has recognized two Red Hat solutions in its 23rd annual CODiE Awards, a highly competitive and peer-reviewed awards program that celebrates outstanding achievement and vision in the industry. read more...
Jun 05, 2008
Facebook's Open Platform Gamble
In an effort to spur even more application development activity, Facebook has opened up much of the source code and tools for its Facebook Platform. More than 24,000 applications have been developed on the platform in its first year, Facebook said. read more...
The new case for open source data protection
The cost advantages are clear, and most of the drawbacks to open source backup software have recently been eliminated. read more...
Jun 04, 2008
Palamida to Manage Sterling Commerce's Use of Open Source
Looking to lessen their business risks with undocumented code, Sterling Commerce (News - Alert), a subsidiary of AT&T, announced that is has chosen Palamida, a provider of application security for open source, to manage and secure its use of open source software. read more...
Asus embeds open source for fast boot ups
The PC manufacturer has extended its commitment to the DeviceVM open source stack, embedding a lightweight OS for rapid boot ups. read more...
Jun 03, 2008
Facebook Platform Now Open Source: fbOpen Released
Facebook is turning parts of its application platform open source, the company announced today. It's available here for download. read more...
vmcNetflix goes open source
The developer of vmcNetflix, a Windows Media Center plugin that lets you watch streaming video from Netflix.com in the media center interface, has decided to relaunch the program as an open source project. read more...
Jun 02, 2008
UK developers favour open source
The majority of UK developers working with proprietary platforms would prefer to work in an open source environment if given the choice, according to a report from Kingpin Intelligence read more...
Sun pushing open source storage
Sun is promising customers they can have storage systems on Fibre Channel or iSCSI minus expensive proprietary storage arrays from the likes of EMC with new solutions developed on the Sun's free open source based OpenSolaris. read more...
