Date: 10/10/07     Keywords: microsoft

Novell ’s Mono chief demonstrated an early incarnation of “Moonlight” before .NET developers Tuesday but he warned that a full implementation of Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E), aka Silverlight, is unlikely — at least under his watch. Miguel de Icaza, vice president of engineering at Novell and chief of the Mono Project, said at Microsoft’s [...]

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Date: 10/10/07     Keywords: linux

Another update of the Linux kernel slipped out this week with a new process scheduler, virtualization options and a wee bit of controversy to boot. Linux 2.6.23, which was released October 9, incorporates a new process scheduler called the Completely Fair Scheduler that gives more CPU horsepower to applications that are more user interactive but that [...]

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Date: 10/10/07     Keywords: no keywords

Patents were originally endorsed by the Founders in order to protect individuals from big companies who might steal their ideas and dominate markets. They have become a weapon businesses use to quash innovation, whether by entrepreneurs or by other businesses.

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Date: 10/10/07     Keywords: no keywords

According to Marina Litvinovich at LiveJournal Russian police came into the home of Boris Batyi in Rostov-on-Don and arrested him for having an unlicensed version of Windows.

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Date: 10/10/07     Keywords: microsoft

Steve Ballmer’s latest rant against open source, and Microsoft’s internal reaction to it, reflect deep problems within the company. Part of the problem is that, as they say, Elvis has left the building. Elvis in this case is Bill Gates, Ballmer’s one-time Harvard classmate, the drop-out whose strategic vision and intense focus made Microsoft what it [...]

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Date: 10/09/07     Keywords: no keywords

Today's server farms can store entire libraries and access them within microseconds. This doesn't just make the iPod possible, it makes the consumer Internet possible.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/167470219/

Date: 10/09/07     Keywords: microsoft

FUD about patent claims means little to the mass market, because patent holders rarely go after customers, but it might mean something in the enterprise space. It might cause enough hesitation that large companies will listen to a Microsoft "blended operating systems" pitch aimed at pushing IBM aside.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/167458516/

Date: 10/08/07     Keywords: no keywords

As customer demands narrow-down, and the value you get from each engagement goes up, smaller, specialized vendors can gain a big advantage.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/166951997/

Date: 10/08/07     Keywords: no keywords

By keeping processed data in memory the new Palo Server from Germany speeds the processing of Excel queries by a factor of 10. And the open API means you can plug other applications in easily, if you're not an Excel-head.

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Date: 10/06/07     Keywords: linux, microsoft

Novell made its bed with Microsoft. It got engaged to Microsoft. It took Microsoft for better or worse, and this is the worse. Now that it sees just what Microsoft is about, it wants the open source movement to forgive it, to accept its apology and to continue dating it, to continue paying for its SUSE Linux licenses.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/165986785/

Date: 10/05/07     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft’s release of .NET classes under its shared source license will not benefit the Mono project or any other open source project, maintains Miguel de Icaza, Novell’s vice president of engineering. In an e-mail exchange, de Icaza, co-founder of the GNOME desktop, Ximian and the Mono Project said the .NET classes fall under the provisions [...]

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Date: 10/05/07     Keywords: java, web

Even as new versions of opensuse and Ubuntu hit the web this month, a jazzed up Fedora 8 release is being prepped for availability on November 8. Fedora 8, now in final testing, features an online desktop, a new look-and-feel called Infinity, IcedTea, an open source Java environment based on openJDK, and a preview of [...]

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Date: 10/05/07     Keywords: no keywords

The whole point of open source and the Internet business model is that you don't have to sue your best customers in order to make a profit. The fact that many businesses feel compelled to do this shows just how revolutionary that model remains.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/165718764/

Date: 10/05/07     Keywords: no keywords

The refusal of suppliers to sell more Internet bandwidth means that exciting new services using that bandwidth -- like consumer SaaS -- can't get off the ground.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/165707266/

Date: 10/04/07     Keywords: no keywords

Maybe enterprise open source is no sexier than enterprise anything else. Selling stuff to big businesses will get your kids through school, but it won't get you on the Most Beautiful People list.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/165215322/

Date: 10/04/07     Keywords: no keywords

Open source gives you control of your desktop, but is that really a good thing?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/165204632/

Date: 10/04/07     Keywords: microsoft

The Reference License lets you look at the code, but you can't redistribute it, and you can't modify it. It is, as these esteemed analysts note, a way of putting developers on notice that if anything they write (for, say Mono) Microsoft's lawyers will come down like a ton of bricks.

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Date: 10/03/07     Keywords: linux, microsoft

In light of Microsoft’s recent “Moonlight” announcement with Novell, it should come as no surprise that Adobe quietly slipped out the first test version of its planned Linux plug-in for Flex at its MAX 2007 conference this week. On Wednesday, the tools giant made available the public alpha of Flex Builder IDE for Linux, the [...]

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Date: 10/03/07     Keywords: no keywords

The open source movement has hit content big-time, and things will never be the same. You adapt or you die.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/164742521/

Date: 10/02/07     Keywords: software, security

When Barracuda reversed the question, asking for advantages in proprietary software, 23% answered security. When open source customers were asked the advantages in their choice, only 16% answered security.

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