Date: 01/16/08     Keywords: software

Oracle’s $8.5 billion dollar buyout of BEA dramatically shifts the enterprise applications software market once again, as well as additional pressure and opportunities for Red Hat’s JBoss Division — and the whole open source apps community in general. The deal, if approved, expands Oracle’s immense enterprise applications software kingdom, and should give CIOs pause before [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/217769307/

Date: 01/16/08     Keywords: no keywords

The development models of projects can differ, even under the same license, and this may impact the amount of community support they get. Thus a new incline is born. Call it the Open Source Development Incline.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/217716904/

Date: 01/16/08     Keywords: no keywords

Once Comcast's nonsense is approved by the FCC, the Bells will also be free to transform the Internet into something more akin to their mobile phone networks, where the network gets a cut of everything and controls what you can access.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/217666071/

Date: 01/16/08     Keywords: mysql, software, database, sql

Sun announced Wednesday that it is buying MySQL for about $1 billion — $800 million in cash and $200 million in options. The news comes on the same day that mega proprietary database software giant Oracle announced its intent to buy middleware giant BEA. The deal, which awaits regulatory approval, should allay any talk that [...]

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Date: 01/15/08     Keywords: no keywords

This whole deal is a real net benefit to the open source community, especially the increasing number of enterprise programmers using the Eclipse tool set. But IBM isn't placing this site inside Eclipse.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/217089738/

Date: 01/15/08     Keywords: no keywords

You can't build today's complex sites and systems from scratch, any more than you can build your own car. But with parts, the right tools, skill, and patience, you can build something very good, very quickly.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/217055209/

Date: 01/14/08     Keywords: technology

The rapid improvement of Torrent technology, based on open source, will transform TV, just as VOIP tools like Skype are changing telephony, enabling integration with other data services.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/216571373/

Date: 01/14/08     Keywords: no keywords

IBM earnings jumped a surprising 24% based on strong sales in Asia and Europe. Should this count as an open source win, a validation of the open source concept? I think it should.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/216491013/

Date: 01/14/08     Keywords: no keywords

Open source is vital not beause it's free, but because it lets you pull multiple sources of code together quickly, so someone can turn it into what you imagined.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/216200946/

Date: 01/11/08     Keywords: mysql, sql

By using mySQL to do it, and buying mySQL support contracts, Virgin Mobile is calling mySQL enterprise-ready.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/215028762/

Date: 01/11/08     Keywords: no keywords

As large companies integrate voice into their Intranets, obsoleting their voice networks, they're going to see real change.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/215017627/

Date: 01/10/08     Keywords: no keywords

The NIST, working with researchers at UT-Arlington, plan to release open source code for what they call automated "combinatorial" testing.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/214465462/

Date: 01/10/08     Keywords: technology

If this were 1996, and neither McCain nor Huckabee had the capability to energize their support cheaply, using technology, would they stand a chance?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/214449263/

Date: 01/09/08     Keywords: no keywords

Closed source code is just as buggy, just as flawed, as these open source projects were before Coverity started working with them. The difference is you aren't being told, and the programs aren't being fixed

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/213973748/

Date: 01/09/08     Keywords: no keywords

The rise of the Internet has not really revolutionized the telecommunications business. We know this in part because it's still called the telecommunications business. We also know it because it's still dominated by the same firms as in 1995.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/213854249/

Date: 01/09/08     Keywords: software, security

McAfee says concerns about potential open source litigation are unfounded. The company issued a statement this week to ZDNet following news this week that the security software company cited potential legal risks associated with its use of open source in its most recent annual report and letter to shareholders. Chief spokesman Joris Evers said the [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/213814067/

Date: 01/08/08     Keywords: software

McAfee stock is down 25% because, it seems, they're just asking to be sued. A carefully written shareholder's letter seems to say the company may have become infected with some GPL software, making it subject to that license's requirements

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/213217405/

Date: 01/08/08     Keywords: no keywords

"Keeping the Internet open and participatory — is the most important thing for us to pursue, full stop," wrote Lilly. He and Baker are on the same page. Nothing to see here.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/213203981/

Date: 01/08/08     Keywords: no keywords

The answer, Black Duck CEO (and blogger) Doug Lewin said, is "simple respect."

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/213192534/

Date: 01/07/08     Keywords: no keywords

Open source, partly by its nature, abjures stardom and the trappings of stardom. The question for today is whether that remains an advantage.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/212606352/