December
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Dec 15, 2008
Vietnam joins open source alliance
Vietnam has officially joined Asianux, an organisation dedicated to the development of open source software. read more...
Myst Online tries open source
Facing financial difficulty, the creators of Myst have decided to open source Myst Online. Will fan contributions help sustain the project? read more...
Dec 11, 2008
OpenLogic Launches Training Services for Open Source Software
Training Helps Enterprises Accelerate IT Projects using Lower Cost Open Source Technologies read more...
Open source heresy, Splashtop and Windows
The dispersal of FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) is the stated role of this blog and most of the time this author attempts to do so through plain, simple, out and out advocacy of Free, Open Source software. read more...
Dec 10, 2008
Open-Xchange Announces Four Additional SaaS Providers
Open-Xchange has been selected by four additional web hosting companies, system integrators and service providers that now offer collaboration online to their customers in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, rather than traditional on-premise software. read more...
Sun Bets Big on 'Open-Source Storage' Market
ChannelWorld India — Building on 25 years of open system innovation and leadership, Sun announced its first open storage product line - 'Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems' radically simplifying the way enterprises manage their storage with breakthrough cost savings, speed and scale read more...
Dec 09, 2008
Open Invention Network and Partners Unveil Landmark 'Linux Defenders' Program to Give the Open Source Community Greater Freedom
The open source community is getting an IP rights tool that will limit distractions created from organizations that like to play the FUD game. We enthusiastically encourage the Linux and open source communities to contribute to Linux Defenders. read more...
Does Google Have a Secret OS?
Net Applications caused a bit of a stir this week with a report that showed Microsoft's operating system share had dipped below 90 percent. This played very well where anti-Microsoft sentiment was strongest, not surprisingly. read more...
Dec 08, 2008
Open OceanMap
Open OceanMap is a data collection tool used to effectively collect local expert knowledge in support of marine conservation planning processes. read more...
Open Source Symbian on track for launch in 2010
Open Source Symbian on track for launch in 2010 - Symbian Foundation has stated that they are well on track to launch the open source edition of Symbian mobile OS in 2010. read more...
Dec 05, 2008
What's Open About OpenSolaris?
Timothy Cramer, senior director of OpenSolaris engineering at Sun, talks about the "open" part of OpenSolaris. read more...
Open Source Alternative for Enterprise Content Management
As the amount and complexity of data increases, the demand for easy, reliable and flexible enterprise content management (ECM) solutions from organizations of all sizes grows as well. read more...
Dec 04, 2008
Dexton ASE Opens up to Open Source Community
a Dutch software company with more than 20 years of experience in complex integration processes, today announces that they will open up to the Open Source software community to accelerate the adoption of their Agile System Environment platform (ASE). read more...
Tracing the evolution of open source in China
Spent the lunch hour today with the Northwest China Council, which had Dirk Hohndel in to speak about open source activities in China. read more...
Dec 03, 2008
Google: Open source lets us control our destiny
By utilising open source, Google's Chris DiBona says the company is able to control its own destiny without having issues with vendors or relying on external parties for development and allowing the company to tinker with its own code. read more...
40 percent of IT jobs will be in open source
By 2020, the cloud will have taken over, and open source will rule in the cloud - with the result that 40 percent of IT jobs will be related to open source, according to a roadmap launched yesterday. read more...
Dec 02, 2008
A Microsoft Veteran Embraces Open Source
Keith Curtis has just written a book about the future of software. That in itself isn’t unique. More unusual is that Mr. Curtis, an 11-year veteran of Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, believes deeply that open source is the future of software. read more...
Barack Obama’s Change.gov Adds OpenID Commenting
As first reported by ReadWriteWeb, President-elect Obama’s website Change.gov now supports OpenID sign in for commenting on certain blog posts and sections of their site. read more...
Dec 01, 2008
Open Source 'Fundamentally Superior': Red Hat CEO James Whitehurst
James Whitehurst was considered an unlikely pick when he was chosen in January to be the next CEO of Red Hat. Since taking the helm, he has introduced a project that has Red Hat and IBM developing Microsoft-free PCs. read more...
MIT builds mobile-optimised site around open source
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has built a special version of its website for mobile devices, designed to give quick, convenient reference by students, staff and visitors with smartphones, PDAs and other small-screen, low-power devices. read more...
