March
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Mar 18, 2010
Red Hat CEO: Open-source economics key to innovation
At the inaugural Open Source Business Conference in 2004, the discussion centered on how to fund open source's survival. Just six years later, the OSBC conversation has taken a 180-degree shift to focus on whether proprietary software's shelf life is nearing its end as open-source software economics increasingly drive technology innovation. What happened? read more...
'Fastest broadband in EU' in election promise; Open source debated
The run up to the UK general election is spattered with political hot potatoes, debates and changes afoot, with a bust economy and a range of issues which are drowning the political sphere with up to the minute issues. read more...
Mar 17, 2010
Will customers demand open clouds?
The old computing vision of client and server is being replaced by one of device and cloud. read more...
How the Google-Microsoft conflict could hit open source
The continuing conflict between Google and China, which may be a proxy for deeper conflicts over economics and values, could easily impact open source. read more...
Mar 16, 2010
Mozilla license becoming Apache-compatible
The Mozilla Foundation will re-write its Mozilla Public License to make it more compatible with Apache and more globally acceptable. read more...
Open Logic auditing open source for sale
Maybe the merger market isn’t dead after all. Open Logic has just announced an open source audit service for mergers and acquisitions. read more...
Mar 15, 2010
Microsoft readies open-source analytics framework for Silverlight
Microsoft plans to release for download via its Codeplex site a free, open-source analytics framework for Silverlight the week of March 15. read more...
'Cloud' vs. 'source' in the battle of bland corporate names
The technology industry has many virtues. creativity in naming is not always one of them. Some of the industry's biggest brands are also the blandest. "Microsoft" is just "microcomputer" and "software" squished together. Intel? "INTegrated ELectronics." read more...
Mar 12, 2010
Why Google Android is winning
The global smartphone market is still RIM's to lose, with Apple in the pole position to profit from its mistakes. read more...
What Apple's and Microsoft's patent threats mean for start-ups
Perhaps retirement doesn't suit former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz. Just weeks into his post-Sun life, Schwartz offers some delicious anecdotes in a blog post, summarizing Apple's and Microsoft's threats to sue Sun for patent infringement as more about bluster than substance. read more...
Mar 09, 2010
Google and open source want to make us OCD on energy
The low-hanging fruit in the renewable energy business still lies with efficiency. Cutting your energy use without crimping your lifestyle gives you a faster payback than turning into Ed Begley Jr. read more...
Group promotes savings with open-source software
For about a year, a group of heavyweight automotive and technology companies has been working on a way to hasten development of in-vehicle entertainment systems. Their solution: share basic software development using the open-source Linux operating system. read more...
Mar 08, 2010
Can open source make 311 relevant?
The 311 service has been a “red headed stepchild” for American cities practically since it was launched in the mid-1990s as a phone service. read more...
Mar 05, 2010
Is Saas a friend or a foe of Open Source?
Dries Buytaert of Drupal and Acquia is warning that Software as a Service is becoming a threat to open source and that clouds could create the same vendor lock-in customers sought to avoid with open source. read more...
Google open source guru says Android code will be in Linux kernel in time
Google’s Android code will assume its rightful place in the Linux kernel — in good time, the company’s top open source guru says. read more...
Mar 04, 2010
Palm's WebOS could help BlackBerry compete against Apple, Android
A Palm acquisition could revamp RIM's OS and help it resonate more with younger consumers deciding between an iPhone or a BlackBerry Curve. read more...
Mar 03, 2010
Health IT takes the first step down the open source road
That first step is interoperability. Getting proprietary gear to work together, to transform reports among proprietary standards, is the first step on the road to an open world. read more...
Open source: Still room for the little guy?
Open source started small, but it's increasingly looking like it's a game for big vendors to play. That's because open source is all about scale, which is hard to attain as a small player. MySQL took 10 years, Red Hat wasn't much faster, and JBoss was also a long-term project. read more...
Mar 01, 2010
There are political advantages in vendor lock-in
Today Matt Asay urges government buyers to support open source, open data and open standards. Why? Because it’s better. Because it promotes competition. Because it gives government flexibility. read more...
How to think about services for the open web
Karsten Januszewski from Microsoft spoke this afternoon at FOWA about different types of web services, and how they can impact the success of your web app. read more...
