Date: 01/25/08     Keywords: no keywords

Jonathan Schwartz will be judged on his open source execution just as Carly Fiorina was judged on her absorption of Compaq.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/223020440/

Date: 01/24/08     Keywords: no keywords

I want my MTV. I also want more guys like John Mayer, who started his career just a mile from my house at Eddie's Attic in Decatur, to get a real shot at the standard rich-and-famous contract.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/222387807/

Date: 01/24/08     Keywords: microsoft

Today's IBM is a world away from the old firm which fought the government, then Microsoft, over control of standards and customers. Sun's transformation has been even faster and even more complete.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/222350633/

Date: 01/24/08     Keywords: software, linux

In a speech before the World Economic Forum in Switzerland this week, mega-billionaire Bill Gates is calling for a “creative capitalism” in which businesses build and target products for poorer nations. Question for Bill: Like Linux and open source software, which has been widely embraced by less affluent nations because of its lack of pricetag [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/222310498/

Date: 01/23/08     Keywords: no keywords

The process, which began back in October 2005, has now reached the point of a public working draft which reveals major changes to how the syntax, the language, and how APIs connect.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/221711878/

Date: 01/23/08     Keywords: no keywords

An Apple fork of Sun's DTrace has the program's author madder than Dan Rather at a Swiftboat reunion.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/221684414/

Date: 01/22/08     Keywords: no keywords

So what about all these executive bloggers? Are we going to see posts with headlines like "Boy, I really screwed that one up," or "Think they should fire me for this one?"

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/221164393/

Date: 01/22/08     Keywords: no keywords

It should be no surprise that Alfresco has taken our own Matt Asay's advice and put money in the bank when it was offered.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/221138320/

Date: 01/22/08     Keywords: no keywords

People will make up excuses to pay anything when there's a boom on. They will pay nothing when a bust is on. It's only when we get beyond both that we find out the truth.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/221079111/

Date: 01/22/08     Keywords: linux

IBM announced at Lotusphere 2008 plans to offer its Open Collaboration Client — which consists of Lotus Notes and Domino 8, Lotus Expeditor and Lotus Symphony apps suite — with support for Ubuntu Linux and in a special marketing bundle with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. It’s the first time OpenOffice played prominently at Lotusphere [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/220836624/

Date: 01/22/08     Keywords: no keywords

The folks at OpenOffice.org announced that version 3.0 is not going to be delayed and is scheduled for completion in September – as planned. The open source Office suite marketing blog on Monday denied — and blasted reports out of Germany — that the release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is going to be delayed from the [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/220778245/

Date: 01/21/08     Keywords: no keywords

Can smart mobs of "good guys" beat smart mobs of "bad guys?"

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/220516018/

Date: 01/21/08     Keywords: no keywords

Registration, video ads, premium content, white papers, all the enablers of electronic commerce are going to solve the present bit-cost dilemma, given time.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/220421737/

Date: 01/19/08     Keywords: software

Here's my position. If you give me 10 Mbps of Internet service, without blocks to any Internet protocol, I don't need your phone network, nor do I need your TV service. Give me the bits and software can do it all.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/219447965/

Date: 01/19/08     Keywords: no keywords

Turns out that while Comcast's execution was sloppy it was actually doing a good thing.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/219430271/

Date: 01/18/08     Keywords: mysql, database, sql, postgresql

In all the media excitement over the week's two database deals, Oracle buying BEA Systems and Sun buying mySQL there's a name we're forgetting. It's PostgreSQL.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/218975502/

Date: 01/18/08     Keywords: mysql, sql

The IBM example shows Sun may be going about this in the wrong way. IBM doesn't control Eclipse. IBM doesn't own Eclipse, in the way Sun now owns mySQL.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/218959801/

Date: 01/17/08     Keywords: mysql, database, sql

It's obvious that, if you're running a proprietary database system it's probably going to say Oracle on it sooner-or-later. But is the way to open source now closed with Sun taking over mySQL?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/218367336/

Date: 01/17/08     Keywords: no keywords

Open source is in the long term interest of funders like Medicare. It lets them share information in a way that improves care and reduces costs.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/218322391/

Date: 01/17/08     Keywords: no keywords

What if you lose your job? Whether you work on proprietary code or on open source, in development, support or marketing. How will you get back in the game? Will you even try?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/218253386/