October
Sub-archives
Oct 28, 2010
Nagios unity gets lost in translation
The fork of Nagios and Icinga may not have happened had not Nagios’ position gotten lost in translation. read more...
There is no spectrum crisis
The whole bandwidth shortage, and the resulting arguments over net neutrality, are an artificial construct, composed mainly of “free market” ideology tied to an obsolete regulatory scheme. Change the regulatory scheme and the problems go away. read more...
Oct 21, 2010
Mozilla plots web app store tools, updates Firefox
The scramble to release Firefox 4 in 2010 means it's a frenzied time for Mozilla, but there's more afoot at the organization than just building a browser. read more...
Might Google Maps be hoisted on its open source petard?
Could the “Wikipedia of maps” do to Google what Google’s Android has done to Symbian? read more...
Oct 13, 2010
Linux tops list for cloud deployments, foundation claims early adopters
The Linux Foundation released a survey today which claims that 70 percent of early adopters say they are using Linux as the primary platform for their cloud environment. The same survey, unveiled at the foundation’s annual end user summit in New Jersey, claims that only 18 percent of early Linux adopters are using Windows for their [...] read more...
Red Hat tackles cloud mobility and lock-in fears
The open source company outlines its Cloud Foundations for a broad church infrastructure. read more...
Oct 12, 2010
ITC may help Apple and Microsoft force Google to negotiate
Google is in a corner. How do you suggest they get out of it? One of the less-remarked aspects of suits filed by Apple and Microsoft against Google over Android is they were also filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission. read more...
The Android opportunity is an open source challenge
Free carrier phones are as bad a deal as rent-to-own. There is opportunity here for entrepreneurs. read more...
Oct 11, 2010
Why the French entrepreneurs are coming
In France you can be a national company. In America you’re a global company. It’s a difference in attitude. read more...
Crapware is the real issue in Android suits
If you’re to go toe to toe with your phone company you need an ally. Apple and Microsoft won’t let carriers update your phone and install garbage — they control that relationship. Google admits to being powerless. read more...
Oct 08, 2010
Open source's role in reducing IT debt
Open source software, when it meets technical and business requirements, can help minimize global IT debt. read more...
Ubuntu 10.10 to debut on 10.10.10
Canonical has announced that its Ubuntu 10.10 release — formerly known as Maverick Meerkat — will be available for download this Sunday, Oct 10. The chief improvement of the Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition is the new “Unity” user interface, which is optimized for smaller netbook screens and mobile computing. The Unity UI offers limited support for touch [...] read more...
Oct 07, 2010
Black Duck buys Ohloh from Geeknet
Black Duck Software has bought Ohloh, the open source directory and community, from Sourceforge parent Geeknet and will integrated it into Koders. read more...
The French entrepreneurs are coming
The single message of last week’s Open World Forum was this. The entrepreneurs are coming. It’s a French world, you know. read more...
Oct 06, 2010
Microsoft's case against Motorola won't hurt Google, Android or Linux
As energy was the driver for the industrial revolution, the Internet is the driver for IT. read more...
The French faith in open source
As energy was the driver for the industrial revolution, the Internet is the driver for IT. read more...
Oct 05, 2010
Simon Phipps unbound
Since Simon Phipps took the corporate blinders off after leaving Oracle he has noticed a sea change among enterprises. He called these changes the first and second derivatives of liberty. The first he said is innovation, the second profit. read more...
Business community is the new open source trend
Groups of corporations can retain community values even with commerce driving it. read more...
Oct 04, 2010
What Microsoft wants from Google
Who is the real target of all this FUD? The guess here is it’s the cellular carriers, not Motorola or HTC at all. read more...
The European way of open source
European open source companies can write grant proposals, and spin their wheels telling government what it should already know, as well as anyone els read more...
