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Jul 20, 2009
Linux & Open Source: 10 Concerns We Have About Google Chrome OS
The hype over this operating system has been so heavy that failure would be a heavy blow. Google introduced Chrome OS July 7, promising a lightweight, Linux-based operating system for netbooks that will enable speedy Web applications. read more...
OpenOffice.org Calc: The Mysteries of DataPilots Revealed
If you're coming fresh from Microsoft Excel, you might wonder where the Pivot tables are in OpenOffice.org Calc. The problem is, they're masquerading under the name of DataPilots. read more...
Jul 17, 2009
Rackspace takes open source approach with release of Cloud Servers API
Positioning its cloud hosting services as an alternative to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Rackspace announced today the public availability of Cloud Servers API based on representational state transfer (REST). read more...
Serna Free - Open Source XML Editor
Serna Free XML editor is an easy-to-use open source WYSIWYG XML editor for those who wish to smoothly adopt the XML technology. Indeed, Serna Free is the most powerful among free and open source XML editors for WYSIWYG authoring. read more...
Jul 14, 2009
Beginner's Wiki Luminotes Goes Open Source
Luminotes, a personal wiki in the vein of PBWiki or TiddlyWiki but with a focus on helping beginners get started, has made its portable wiki package and desktop clients free and open source for all. read more...
Open source gets its first legal journal
As a law student doing my thesis on open-source licensing (PDF), it was nearly impossible to find any substantive legal papers on the topic. In fact, the only one I can remember is Ira Heffan's excellent "Copyleft: Licensing Collaborative Works in the Digital Age" from Stanford Law Review in 1997. read more...
Jul 13, 2009
Banks embracing open source technology
In another sign that the workload of trading floor IT workers is shrinking in the face of smaller technology budgets, banks are increasing considering the use of open source technology in the front office. read more...
NICTA Puts Open Source Projects In One Place
You may never have heard of NICTA (the national ICT centre of excellence), but if you’re an open source enthusiast, you’ll likely be drooling at the new centralised open source portal it has just launched. read more...
Jul 10, 2009
Moblin: Intel's Open-Source Operating System
Moblin, short form of mobile Linux, is an open source operating system and application stack for the next generation of Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), netbooks, and nettops. read more...
London Paper cuts costs by 66% with open source website
First UK paper to use open source content management - The London Paper has switched to an open source content management system as part of a major overhaul of its website. read more...
Jul 09, 2009
Google's new OS marries Linux and Chrome
Google announced an operating system aimed at netbooks that combines the Linux kernel with its Chrome browser. Google expects to release open source code for the Google Chrome Operating System later this year and ship a final version in the second half of 2010, says the company read more...
Comparing Windows and Linux
Linux is an operating system that originated from a man called Linus Torvald. He based Linux off of UNIX, the same operating system that OSX is based on, except it's not as bad as OSX. It started in 1991. read more...
Jul 08, 2009
Open Source on the Agenda
A special thanks to Paul Hyland, the chief technology officer for edweek.org, for this guest blog post about open-source tech issues. read more...
Progress Software Releases FUSEO Forge Application For Open Source Integration Projects
Progress Software Corporation , launched FUSEÔ Forge, a collaborative environment for developing open source projects based on Progress FUSE products. Progress Software Corporation , launched FUSEÔ Forge, a collaborative environment for developing open source projects based on Progress FUSE products. read more...
Jul 03, 2009
Legalized drugs, now open source. Those crazy Dutch!
While some organizations continue to hide their open-source adoption, NOiV (Nederland Open in Verbinding), has published a map of over 200 open-source products currently in use by the Dutch central government as of mid-2009. (Translation here.) read more...
Open source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate it
Redmonk analyst Stephen O'Grady writes a bleak, but likely accurate, eulogy for open source's relevance to cloud computing. read more...
Jul 02, 2009
IBM offers open source machine learning compiler
Big Blue partners with European Union venture on software to optimize applications read more...
Membrane SOAP Monitor now Open Source
predic8 GmbH a fast growing provider of Web Services tools, today released an open source distribution of its SOAP tool Membrane Monitor. read more...
Jul 01, 2009
Save Mart grocery chain sees savings in open source
Open-source software is not only as good as proprietary vendor software in many cases, it’s better — and certainly a lot cheaper, according to James Sims, vice president of information technology and chief information officer at the grocery retailer, Save Mart. read more...
Will New Certification Criteria Fuel Open Source E-Health Records?
Till now, certification requirements for electronic medical records were pretty hefty, addressing hundreds of stringent criteria that comprehensive inpatient and ambulatory systems must meet in order to get a seal of approval from the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, or CCHIT, a non-profit federally supported group. read more...
