Date: 08/16/07     Keywords: no keywords

Is this the ground floor or the penthouse for the open source virtualization market?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/144774634/

Date: 08/15/07     Keywords: no keywords

As business models evolve ever-more rapidly, so the speed with which businesses rise, get gigantic, and fall will increase as well.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/144401896/

Date: 08/14/07     Keywords: xml, microsoft

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth is on a personal mission to crush Microsoft’s Open XML standards effort. On his blog Tuesday, the Canonical executive and Ubuntu developer encouraged members of the global open source community to reach out to their respective International Standards Organization (ANSI in the U.S.) and push for a single document format standard: [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/144115736/

Date: 08/14/07     Keywords: mysql, sql, postgresql

Are mySQL, PostgreSQL and Ingres really better than Oracle, because they are continuing to gain share. Or are their gains down, at least in part, to the fact that they're open and free?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/144042624/

Date: 08/14/07     Keywords: programming, linux

Many CEOs with even less personality than Jim Zemlin have been turned into media stars. Linux, as an operating system and a programming movement, needs such a star.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/144022800/

Date: 08/13/07     Keywords: no keywords

When the combined lobbying muscle of Silicon Valley goes toe-to-toe with Verizon and AT&T, a compromise is the most likely result. Any compromise here will kill the phone companies.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/143659326/

Date: 08/13/07     Keywords: linux, microsoft

SCO lost. Novell owns the UnixWare copyrights SCO claimed. So does this mean any legal threat from Microsoft against Linux is over? I don't think so. Here's why.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/143649296/

Date: 08/12/07     Keywords: mysql, sql

What is happening is that mySQL FOSS and mySQL open source are now different products.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/143406695/

Date: 08/10/07     Keywords: no keywords

Industry executives are downplaying concerns about a growing schism between rival open source virtualization factions but a market battle between Xen and KVM appears increasingly likely, and imminent.  At the San Francisco, Calif. conference this week, Qumranet, a Santa Clara, Calif-based commercial startup that funds KVM, told ZDNet that the company’s first product will be unveiled in [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/142837248/

Date: 08/10/07     Keywords: linux

All the respect shown Big Green at Linuxworld can't mask the fact that its era is ending, and that in time the open source model will triumph.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/142745897/

Date: 08/10/07     Keywords: no keywords

Why should a gung-ho programmer schmooze strangers in an amphitheater when there are great code problems waiting in his or her cubicle? It's like expecting Banksy to drink wine with you at an art show, or Thomas Pynchon to sign your book at a Barnes & Noble.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/142741366/

Date: 08/09/07     Keywords: software, linux, microsoft

For open source backers who love to bash Microsoft (and other proprietary software companies), this LinuxWorld was not for you. At the conference in San Francisco, key industry figures emphasized the need for respect and cooperation between open source companies and Microsoft because of the reality that customers will be using a mix of open source [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/142458385/

Date: 08/09/07     Keywords: linux

The two biggest names in the Linux industry – Linus Torvalds and Red Hat –  skipped out on LinuxWorld again. It’s no surprise. Torvalds, the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel, rarely delivers keynotes or makes public appearances at conferences. His right-hand man, the No. 2 kernel maintainer Andrew Morton opened up the show [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/142276338/

Date: 08/08/07     Keywords: linux

Motorola is close to releasing its much anticipated, first Linux-based Razr2 V8 handset in the U.S, ” said Christy M Wyatt, vice president of ecosystem and market development for Motorola during a LinuxWorld press conference. Showing off her own Linux Razr2, Wyatt was prevented by the company’s communications department from providing a more exact release date for [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/142144188/

Date: 08/08/07     Keywords: linux

Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian said the Linux industry must create a vendor neutral standard for application development or face the same fragmentation that killed Unix. Speaking before a packed audience at LinuxWorld at the Moscone Center Wednesday, the Novell CEO said the Linux Standards Base (LSB) is a good start but it’s not enough. A standard [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/142078310/

Date: 08/08/07     Keywords: no keywords

Firescope ships as a piece of hardware, not as a DVD. "Once you buy it you can hot deploy. You won’t have admin access to the box, but through the interface you can upgrade it, with an auto update system."

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/141982128/

Date: 08/08/07     Keywords: virus

Some well known virus signatures were run against the programs to test their engines. Some, like open source ClamAV (above), found them all. Others, like Watchguard, missed nearly all of them.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/141975604/

Date: 08/07/07     Keywords: linux

Dell has begin shipping Ubuntu Linux preloaded on consumer PCs and notebooks in Europe and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 on business PCs in China. Dell CTO Kevin Kettler announced the news during his keynote at LinuxWorld 2007, claiming such efforts will expand adoption of Linux on the desktop worldwide.  The CTO displayed a photo of founder and chief executive officer Michael Dell using Ubuntu Linux on his [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/141760276/

Date: 08/07/07     Keywords: linux

 One year after Red Hat acquired JBoss, the battle is finally beginning to heat up in the open source middleware space. In what was described as a “coming out party” for JBoss post merger, Red Hat and Dell disclosed at LinuxWorld 2007 plans to prebundle three middleware stacks on Dell’s PowerEdge Servers. “Partnering with Dell allows us to be much bolder in the middleware space,” [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/141748080/

Date: 08/07/07     Keywords: linux

Don’t expect to see key features of OpenSolaris showing up in the Linux kernel, said a top  Linux maintainer. At his LinuxWorld opening keynote, Andrew Morton made it very clear that the appointment of former OSDL CTO and Debian co-founder Ian Murdock to Sun’s OS platforms organization will not translate into a merging between the open source version of Solaris Unix [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/141710013/