Date: 03/26/08     Keywords: software, asp, web

Acquia, KnowledgeTree and JasperSoft touted new open source web publishing, social software, content management and business intelligence products at the Open Source Business Conference this week. Acquia, of Andover, Mass., said it is on track this fall t ship a new social web publishing platform code named “Carbon” that is based on the open [...]

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Date: 03/26/08     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft General Counsel and IP chief Brad Smith got a round of applause at the Open Source Business Conference Monday for showing respect to the open source community — but he faced some tough questioning from those in the bazaar. One attendee asked how Microsoft could collaborate with an industry that was described by Microsoft [...]

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Date: 03/26/08     Keywords: xml, microsoft

Microsoft thinks it has the votes to get Office OpenXML (OOXML), the format of Microsoft Office, approved as an ISO standard. The key, it says, was a decision by the Czech Standards Institute to approve the format.

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Date: 03/26/08     Keywords: database, web

Terracotta offers a server which eliminates most trips to your database, which for Web applications saves a ton of compute time.

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Date: 03/26/08     Keywords: no keywords

If ordinary users in other countries are fairly ignorant of a license's fine print does that make them any different from Americans?

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Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: software, asp, sql, microsoft

Microsoft and Jaspersoft are working together to ensure that Jasper’s business intelligence software suite runs well on the latest editions of Windows and SQL Server. At the Open Source Business Conference at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Microsoft told ZDNet that the open source BI software will be optimized for Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 and [...]

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Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: software, web, linux, hosting

Ubuntu CEO Mark Shuttleworth sees Linux playing a big role in the cloud and in mobile computing – especially his own server and client software. In a brief interview with ZDNet after his OSBC panel, Shuttleworth said the Ubuntu Linux server will be a significant platform for hosting thousands of web services and the desktop [...]

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Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft's idea is that you can have its system or be exiled to the woods, with its choices and risks. Especially the risk that your vendor of choice will go toes-up, leaving you like Little Red Riding Hood before the big, bad wolf.

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Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: linux

Only three months into the job, newly named Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst is ready to talk about what he sees as the Linux company’s big flaws. No doubt, Red Hat is the leading open source company but ”I don’t think we’ve done a good enough job” of leading the industry, the former Delta [...]

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Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: no keywords

I know it gives employees a warm feeling to know that the VC money is flowing and Big Blue believes in them. But what should this mean to the EnterpriseDB community? Does IBM's backing for an open source company give you the same feeling, or something queasier?

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Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: web

Acquia is on track to launch its first commercial product this fall based on the open source social web publishing Drupal project. On the exhibit floor at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, Drupal community guide Kieran Lai said all systems are go for the Avon, mass. startup to ship the product, code named [...]

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Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: no keywords

GroundWork Open Source is moving higher up the food chain. To that end, the company launched at the start of the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco its first enterprise edition and a significant upgrade of its networking monitoring platform that is more scalable and extensible. GroundWork Monitor 5.2’s monitoring capacity has improved by a factor [...]

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Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: no keywords

The government and private business are colluding to limit competition in wireless services, to keep prices high. High prices for service justify high prices for spectrum.

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Date: 03/22/08     Keywords: software, browser

Mozilla’s CEO blasted Apple for distributing its Safari browser via the Apple Software Update service on Windows that is used by millions of iTunes users. In a blog posted today, John Lilly, the chief executive of Mozilla, claimed the distribution practice is unethical because it allegedly tricks users into downloading not only their regular iTunes and [...]

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Date: 03/21/08     Keywords: no keywords

Red Hat has made its certificate system open source.

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Date: 03/20/08     Keywords: linux

But thanks to this most proprietary of companies, all is not lost. Linux phones of all types will be welcome -- anything, Verizon thinks, that can break AT&T (and Apple's) market grip. How ironic is that?

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Date: 03/20/08     Keywords: no keywords

The idea is the site will not just attract Appcelerator developers, but anyone in a field related to the RIA tools it offers. That includes the whole AJAX community as well as the emerging mobile Internet development folks.

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Date: 03/20/08     Keywords: software

The Perens campaign is about serious issues, the most important being the continuing tension between the needs of vendors and free software advocates. Those tensions have never been entirely put to bed.

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Date: 03/19/08     Keywords: linux

Novell opened the kimono on its development plans for SUSE Linux Enterprise Linux 11 at Brainshare 2008 this week but let it be known the product won’t ship until 2009 or possibly 2010. In fact, the Cambridge, Mass. won’t even provide a planned ship date until the end of this year. In any case, the [...]

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Date: 03/19/08     Keywords: no keywords

Open source is a shared base. Competition takes place on top of that base. But before a new market can truly consolidate it becomes part of the base, and monopoly power is frustrated.

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