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Florian Mueller , coordinating opposition to Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems and mySQL, sent a note today cheering word that Oracle has asked for, and gotten, a six-day delay to answer European objections to the purchase. (Picture from Roberto Galoppini .)
Mueller, a former ...
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Sun Microsystems
Contrary to rumors, Google did not release a beta version of its much anticipated Chrome operating system today. And nothing is coming anytime soon: the final version is at least a year away, the mega giant web company said.
But there was some significant news for the community today. Google ...
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Chrome
Open source Java clustering software developer Terracotta announced its intent to buy an open source job scheduler known as Quartz.
The integration of Quartz into Terracotta’s platform will ease high availability job scheduling and scaling applications to multiple nodes, the company ...
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Adobe
An Australian friend wrote yesterday with a question:
I really can’t see the point of a cloud-based OS for the general user. The added cost in using it doesn’t seem worthwhile.
It would take me over 6 months to upload my data at my connection speed not to mention that ISPs here ...
Hardware
You can argue that clouds are fast becoming synonymous with SaaS, but MindTouch has launched its own cloud to serve up its open source collaboration solution.
MindTouch bills itself as the open source alternative to Sharepoint and recently named our own Matt Asay as the second ...
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The latest Black Duck Software figures on open source license popularity make it clear.
Microsoft is gaining.
(The little black duck shown is copyrighted, trademarked, and has always been protected by Warner Bros., part of the Time-Warner media empire. He’s 72 but carries his age ...
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Microsoft
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The daily competition between Google and Microsoft becomes
ever-more direct this week, with Google hosting a demo
of its ChromeOS tomorrow, right after Microsoft’s Professional Development conference. ChromeOS is Google’s version of Linux for netbooks, much as Android is its ...
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Google-Microsoft rivalry on with ChromeOS launch
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Regular readers here have probably guessed why Microsoft decided to open source .NET Micro under the Apache 2.0 license.
Competition.
Makers of embedded devices have been moving strongly into open source, especially Linux, and Microsoft was at great risk of being left behind. The ...
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Microsoft
Linux
On the surface these are happy days in Android-land.
Going into the key Christmas selling season, Android is eating Windows for lunch . New (non-Google) development centers are continuing to open , new manufacturers are coming on stream.
What could possibly go wrong?
Knowing that rising ...
Mobile
Android
Linux
Apple
At 46, Larry Augustin is much too young to be the grand old man of anything.
But he is one of the grand old figures of open source. He was in the group that coined the term back in the late 1990s.
Larry was Sourceforge, he was VA Linux, back during the dot-boom 10 years ago. He rode the ...
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Larry Page
Tom Foremski, one of the good guys here at ZDNet, is out with a piece suggesting that Google fork over whatever Rupert Murdoch wants in order to keep indexing Fox News.
His argument is that losing access to regularly-updated content would be a big hole in Google’s business model, which ...
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Rupert Murdoch
Embedded Linux is proprietary by its nature.
Expressing software inside a chip, then selling the chip, gives embedded Linux a business model, but that business model is tied closely to the success of the chip being sold.
So as chip makers have turned to Linux to power their new designs ...
Software
Linux
Advocates of transforming network regulation from Bell services to dumb bits will get a hearing from the FCC, as David Isenberg , author of the classic Rise of the Stupid Network , has joined the agency as an expert advisor.
(Picture taken in 2004 from Isenberg’s Isen.com Web site .)
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Mobile
Microsoft has won a patent that seems to cover an old Unix authentication scheme known as Sudo .
(Your honor, I would like to offer this t-shirt of XKCD’s classic comic as evidence prior art. Mark it as Exhibit A for the defense.)
Groklaw is using the case to argue against software ...
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Microsoft
Linux
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When the rock group Eagles broke up in
1980 they said they would get back together “when
hell froze over.” They did get back together, in 1994. The album was called Hell Freezes Over . Point is you can promise you will never do ...
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Broadcom goes open source and hell freezes over
Red Hat created a bit of stir recently when it shipped its Enterprise Virtualization for Servers product because the management component runs on a Window server. That’s right — no Linux support.
The platform is an enhancement of the former Qumranet’s KVM-based platform, ...
Software
Linux
It’s really just another demonstration of what Linux can do.
It started with a BBC story and quickly became an Internet detective piece.
(If you recognize this picture you’re either a middle-aged Brit or a trivia expert. The lady at the center is the entry point for what ...
Software
Linux
A Black Duck analysis shows the average enterprise software project is 22% open source, saving an average of $26 million on each project.
The estimate was created using the Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) , first released in 1981.
Black Duck, which originally developed its database of ...
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Open source is, in part, a release of ego.
When a program is proprietary, it’s yours. You own it. You can feed it or you can kill it.
Not so with open source. When software is made open source it is with the knowledge that its fate is shared among all stakeholders. The contributions ...
