Open Source

Google and open source, who needs who more?

Saturday, 30 January 2010 14:47 Open Source - Open Source

It may just be that Google has grown up beyond open source. It's like the tiger raised by a dog. It needs to be on its own, both for its own sake and the dog's sake.

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Credativ providing third level of support to OpenLogic customers

Saturday, 30 January 2010 14:47 Open Source - Open Source

OpenLogic has signed a deal with Germany's Credativ to provide third-level support to its open source support customers.

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Open source faces a post-Sun world

Saturday, 30 January 2010 14:47 Open Source - Open Source

The long-awaited, and feared, completion of the Oracle-Sun deal sets up a fight-of-flight response in the heart of every open source maven.

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Why open source marketing is so bad

Saturday, 30 January 2010 14:47 Open Source - Open Source

Marketing a device or operating system is an exercise with a lot of moving parts to it. There are lots of publics you need to relate to -- the press, the developers, the retailers, the buyers. All of them are taking a risk. All must be convinced it's a risk worth taking, that it's not really a risk at all.

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Apple tablet: Even open source developers love it

Saturday, 30 January 2010 14:47 Open Source - Open Source

Developers look at the new device as an all-in-one PC, entertainment and communication device, the biggest thing since the IBM PC.

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Was Jonathan Schwartz a success or failure for Sun?

Saturday, 30 January 2010 14:47 Open Source - Open Source

Jonathan Schwartz was the public face of open source's dot-boom. Java was once seen as proprietary, that Open Office was once seen as dormant, and mySQL was once seen as Swedish.

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Obama enforces trade embargo against open source

Saturday, 30 January 2010 14:47 Open Source - Open Source

How far is the State Department willing to go in order to enforce this restriction and how far is the open source movement willing to go to fight it?

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Red Hat becomes an open source community organizer

Saturday, 30 January 2010 14:47 Open Source - Open Source

The site has been pre-loaded with comments from CEO Jim Whitehurst and other Red Hat employees.

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Kiwi high school issues shot heard around the open source world

Saturday, 30 January 2010 14:47 Open Source - Open Source

Albany Senior High School is ignoring a deal worked out between the National Party government and Microsoft and claims it is saving a bundle.

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Open source medical software delivers in Haiti

Saturday, 30 January 2010 14:47 Open Source - Open Source

Fred Trotter compares the success of OpenMRS in Haiti to that of the VA's VistA software after Hurricane Katrina. In both cases it was the ability to deliver data quickly where it was needed that saved lives.