Date: 10/01/07     Keywords: programming, web

Adobe is not the only tools vendor planning to make available its rich Internet application (RIA) development environment to the open source community. Curl, a Cambridge, Mass. MIT spinoff known for its innovative programming language and IDE for Web 2.0 desktops will announce its plunge into open source waters in the next few [...]

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Date: 10/01/07     Keywords: no keywords

Credibility is something you either have or you don't have. It's not something you can have in one department and not have in another. It's something you earn, and must keep earning, every day, and something you can lose in a Mike Vick minute.

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Date: 10/01/07     Keywords: technology

"This is a bigger shift with SOA. The need to integrate applications ourside your enterprise is more real. Ignoring the larger technology movement will be a real problem for vendors."

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Date: 09/28/07     Keywords: software, microsoft

Venture capitalist Ann Winblad said open source and open standards has made life tough for Microsoft’s co-founder and other kingpins that used to rule the software industry. “The beauty of the software industry today is that not one, two or three companies that control the agenda. This is hard for the incumbents to deal with,” said [...]

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Date: 09/28/07     Keywords: no keywords

Ross Turk of Sourceforge (right) was troubled by my post about Mashable's Open Source God, which to him read as though I were calling Sourceforge a site meant exclusively for developers.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/162497384/

Date: 09/28/07     Keywords: no keywords

If you can keep someone on your team who is obsessive compulsive to ride herd on those with attention deficits, you're far less likely to find your whole team in court later on.

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Date: 09/27/07     Keywords: software

In spite of a recent slowdown in venture investment, open source remains high on the list of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Ann Winblad, a partner in the prominent San Francisco VC that funded MuleSource, said at MIT’s Emerging Technologies Conference Thursday that the money will keep flowing as open source software penetrates deeper into the [...]

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Date: 09/27/07     Keywords: no keywords

If you don't know how to run your new open source business well, a competitor can appear out of nowhere, with the same code, in an Internet minute. And the proprietary operators have no history managing these open source operations -- the trend is too new.

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Date: 09/26/07     Keywords: software, linux, apache

We're going to see a lot more desktop Linux, despite the current lack of hardware sales. We're going to see a major migration to Linux, once organizations gain more knowledge of it. Apache is the very model of a modern major software outfit.

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Date: 09/26/07     Keywords: programming, software, microsoft

Turns out open source and Microsoft have more in common than thought: both have it wrong, one prominent software developer claimed at MIT’s Emerging Technologies conference. Charles Simonyi, the Hungarian-born developer of Microsoft Word who later became a pilot, cosmonaut and co-founder of Intentional Software, said modern software developers – whether they are programming under [...]

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Date: 09/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

When the code is visible you can easily hire someone to protect your interests in what it does. When it's invisible others have that power.

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Date: 09/25/07     Keywords: microsoft

There is growing competition for Microsoft, across the entire front of open source, both here and around the world. I happen to think it makes Microsoft a better company. Big Green is worried and that's a good thing, because it has much to be worried about.

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Date: 09/25/07     Keywords: no keywords

I don't doubt that you should audit your code before you try to ship it as product, but does everyone really need an audit? And how much would open source audit compliance raise costs? Enough to make open source non-competitive?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/161195140/

Date: 09/25/07     Keywords: linux, microsoft

It should come as no surprise that HP is considering expanding its Linux PC efforts, given that its top rival is selling Ubuntu Linux PCs in the U.S and Microsoft is trying to kill any potential interest in them. HP began selling Red Hat Linux PCs in Australia and is reportedly considering expanding that pilot [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/161153372/

Date: 09/24/07     Keywords: linux

At Demo07 Qumranet announced Solid ICE, a proprietary desktop virtualization system built on the kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) built into Linux 2.6.20.

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Date: 09/24/07     Keywords: no keywords

Most of the features you would expect from NetMeeting are here. It's led by Indian executives formerly with Computer Associates, including D.D. Ganguly, formerly the company's vice president of product development.

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Date: 09/24/07     Keywords: no keywords

Mashable, which blogs about social networking, has launched what it calls Open Source God, a directory of over 480 downloadable open source projects, divided into categories.

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Date: 09/22/07     Keywords: no keywords

Despite an immense excitement over the filing of a GPL violations suit against Monsoon Multimedia, makers of the Hava media player, expect a settlement fairly soon. I was sent a link to a Hava support thread on the issue, which was still online at this writing. The thread makes it clear that the facts of the [...]

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Date: 09/21/07     Keywords: no keywords

OpenSUSE.org released yesterday the first release candidate of openSUSE 10.3 as it moves toward general public release on Oct 4. True to its multi-desktop heritage, the 10.3 release candidate offers improvements to both GNOME and KDE, including the new GNOME 2.20 and an initial glimpse of the KDE 4 desktop. GNOME 2.20, for example, features [...]

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Date: 09/20/07     Keywords: software

Hyperic has joined forces with another open source software leader to deliver enterprise reporting tools to its new HQ 3.1 platform, sources say. The San Francisco company, which released its core HQ 3.1 upgrade in August, is widely expected to begin shipping an enterprise version of that open source management and monitoring platform next week, [...]

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