Date: 09/20/07     Keywords: no keywords

With a little help from an Infoworld blogger and a closer look at IBM's Lotus Symphony announcement, I may have finally divined IBM's mass market open source strategy.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/159087702/

Date: 09/20/07     Keywords: no keywords

The open source movement needs more than just good code to succeed.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/158986809/

Date: 09/19/07     Keywords: microsoft

While I've been writing about IBM and Microsoft, about the the biggest trees in the open source forest, thousands of little shoots have been growing, ignored.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/158612169/

Date: 09/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

Integrating Sunbird with Thunderbird would be cool. Integrating Sunbird with Open Office would be cooler.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/158533082/

Date: 09/18/07     Keywords: no keywords

IBM’s debut of its homegrown open source version of OpenOffice without e-mail or collaboration features is not surprising but nevertheless disappointing. On the one hand, Big Blue’s recent endorsement and support and services plan for OpenOffice — an acknowledgement of the obsolescence of SmartSuite and Workplace — offers new hope for the struggling open [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/158226739/

Date: 09/18/07     Keywords: no keywords

The IBM Symphony tools the company is now giving users free is aimed at nothing less than jump-starting a social revolution in the workplace.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/158193829/

Date: 09/18/07     Keywords: microsoft

Even as its pushes the OpenDocument Format, OpenOffice.org — and new member IBM — are trying to deliver better compatibility with Microsoft Office. Good idea. This week, as its annual conference gets underway in Spain, OpenOffice.org released a version 2.3 update of its open source Office suite that offers improved compatibility with Microsoft Excel [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/158144460/

Date: 09/18/07     Keywords: no keywords

The rest of the world is moving toward a free, competitive mobile market where equipment and services are separate and where consumers, not carriers, rule. Meanwhile the U.S. remains a backwater under the thumb of an oppressive government regime.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/158016865/

Date: 09/17/07     Keywords: software, microsoft

Today’s decision by the European Court of First Instance upholding previous fines and penalties against Microsoft is neither surprising nor newsworthy. The European government has traditionally taken a stronger stand and imposed more stringent sanctions against the U.S.-based software company for its alleged anti-competitive practices than did its Washington, D.C. counterpart, which (under a new [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/157773667/

Date: 09/17/07     Keywords: microsoft

Some may whine, but by laying down its marker for interoperability, and against Microsoft's embrace and extend policy, the European Union is supporting American open source efforts, giving them legal protection no U.S. court can fully take away.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/157607226/

Date: 09/17/07     Keywords: microsoft

Despite Microsoft's proven vulnerability with Windows Vista, and its continuing antitrust problems, so-called "mainstream desktop users" are being told they have no choice, that they must surrender to the Redmond borg.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/157586224/

Date: 09/15/07     Keywords: no keywords

How are you going to celebrate the SCO bankruptcy filing?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/156902734/

Date: 09/14/07     Keywords: linux

So long as content and gaming are closed to open source, Linux' desktop market share will remain minimal. We're still talking here of baby steps, which must be followed-up by programmers working for fun instead of food.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/156473422/

Date: 09/14/07     Keywords: microsoft, google

If the Democratic Party is added to the ranks of Google, Apple, Microsoft and other tech companies who are demanding the spectrum be opened, it's hard to see the phone cartel winning.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/156468375/

Date: 09/13/07     Keywords: mysql, software, database, sql

MySQL will introduce dynamic load balancing to its database platform and enterprise subscription in 2008. That news surfaced during a briefing Thursday with MySQL executives about the open source database company’s forthcoming 5.1 and 6.0 upgrades. Zack Urlocker, Executive Vice President of Products at MySQL, said the load balancing software will ship as part of the next [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/156072251/

Date: 09/13/07     Keywords: no keywords

Sitting on a park bench and shaking your fist at those crazy kids won't change anything. It's what gold rushes look like.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/155970159/

Date: 09/13/07     Keywords: microsoft

The Sun-Microsoft link-up is good business. It means almost nothing to open source. I say almost because the something it does mean is good. Microsoft's agreement to accomodate Solaris in its virtualization schemes will help those with OpenSolaris live in a mixed-OS world.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/155955160/

Date: 09/12/07     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft and Novell announced today the opening of a 2,500 square foot lab in Cambridge, Mass. where engineers from both companies will code and test interoperability of their respective virtualization technologies. The news comes a day after Microsoft announced imminent availability of the first test version of its Viridian virtualization hypervisor, which is expected to [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/155608569/

Date: 09/12/07     Keywords: no keywords

Code searching, which started just a few years ago with enterprises trying to prise open source code from their files, has become a product category with a variety of business models.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/155562750/

Date: 09/12/07     Keywords: no keywords

In this battle for virtualization mind share, it's apparently not enough to make things open source. Winning allies within the open source movement is also important.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/155537743/