Date: 11/18/07     Keywords: software

Ethan Galstad has a dream, to turn Nagios.Org, the open source network monitoring project he runs in St. Paul, Minn., into Nagios Enterprises, a profitable open source software company.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/186679256/

Date: 11/16/07     Keywords: microsoft, google

What history tells me is to bet on Google. In many ways it is replicating the strategy Microsoft used over 20 years ago to take the PC market from Apple's Macintosh.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/185855145/

Date: 11/16/07     Keywords: microsoft

Hilf's title today has nothing to do with open source. He competes with open source. So does Microsoft generally, on every level -- including the legal one. Let's stop pretending it's any different.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/185831977/

Date: 11/15/07     Keywords: linux

The biggest and best IT system suppliers are gearing up for what they call "cloud" computing. IBM floated its offering today. It runs Linux.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/185382887/

Date: 11/15/07     Keywords: no keywords

Every successful open source project I know operates through consensus. Orders aren't given, instructions are worked out. Raised voices, fists hammered on tables, these lead to code forks, and to volunteers abandoning a project.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/185256545/

Date: 11/14/07     Keywords: no keywords

We know who the bad registrars are. We’re trying to work with ICANN to handle it. There are a couple of more like Registerfly, and they’re allowing all this to happen.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/184738192/

Date: 11/14/07     Keywords: no keywords

Still, all this reinforces the need for groups like OpenOffice to have ample funding, as Mozilla does, so they can respond to these kinds of challenges.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/184715301/

Date: 11/14/07     Keywords: no keywords

My own view is that expanding the market for innovation is itself an innovation, and that getting innovation into more hands spurs yet-more innovation.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/184681681/

Date: 11/13/07     Keywords: software

If you're taking software free and buying support from elsewhere, the guys who built the program can't eat, unless they find a way to get a rake-off from the support team's revenue. Which isn't going to happen. Or start charging you directly for their code updates, which might.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/184136483/

Date: 11/13/07     Keywords: google

Is Google starting to play proprietary games with open source?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/184129089/

Date: 11/13/07     Keywords: no keywords

This is just the way business evolves. The challenge of the new forces those of the old into ever-higher redoubts, but in time those castles are taken as well.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/184110218/

Date: 11/12/07     Keywords: google

If Google allows its effort to be defined by the present proprietary industry, it will fail. It will accomplish nothing.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/183695311/

Date: 11/12/07     Keywords: microsoft, google

I would say there are three firms -- Google, Microsoft, and IBM -- which presently have the size, scope and ambition to control open source keiretsu, despite the efforts of keiretsu wannabes like Sun.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/183616746/

Date: 11/12/07     Keywords: no keywords

Project leaders leave, taking their passion and code sense with them, yet the project moves on, led by whoever the boss has chosen. Isn't that the way the proprietary world works?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/183575203/

Date: 11/09/07     Keywords: no keywords

Closed spectrum will never give you the growth of open spectrum. Auctioned spectrum gives companies a monopoly for use of that spectrum, hence a high rent is needed, and this eventually frustrates most attempts to put the spectrum to use.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/182301517/

Date: 11/09/07     Keywords: no keywords

Funambol, the producers of SyncML, is offering the first corporate-branded challenge to Apple's locked iPhone.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/182213240/

Date: 11/09/07     Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft has extended its cheap software for education plan, aimed at strangling open source in its crib, to Russia.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/182201263/

Date: 11/08/07     Keywords: software, linux, microsoft

Even as rival Novell celebrates an expanded technical collaboration with Microsoft, Red Hat has released a 5.1 update designed to make its Linux a better platform for virtualizing Linux and Windows workloads. The software, released Wednesday, for instance, offers live migration and save/restore support for fully virtualized Linux and Windows guests. It also offers para-virtualized [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/181881555/

Date: 11/08/07     Keywords: linux

The deal, if approved, might let someone else continue the firm's notorious Linux patent claims and get SCO out from under any potential liabilities.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/181787658/

Date: 11/08/07     Keywords: no keywords

The Eclipse Foundation is moving into the application space, based on its existing development tools.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/181648028/