Date: 05/03/07     Keywords: no keywords

A $39,000 check in the context of a $100 million campaign isn't much to pay for a 160,000 member community.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/113878387/

Date: 05/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

The point of the survey was to show that these customers want more services from vendors, things like maintenance, life cycle support, integration and application development. This is the "sweet spot" for companies like Unisys, and has been the sweet spot at IBM for several years now.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/113616055/

Date: 05/01/07     Keywords: linux

If Ubuntu does win the "Linux desktop" wars, does that make a standard which application developers must write to? And if running your Linux applications through the Ubuntu distribution becomes the standard practice, doesn't that make Ubuntu the "standard Linux."

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/113377357/

Date: 05/01/07     Keywords: no keywords

The new version of its Prevent SQS builds models of what the program you're written is doing so you can quickly find flaws.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/113364541/

Date: 04/30/07     Keywords: microsoft

Of course the devil is in the details, and Microsoft is nothing without the details. Or, as Anthony Bourdain says, "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can!"

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/113182150/

Date: 04/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

Translation takes more work up-front, but virtualization requires more resources. Either method works. The question is, of course, which do you use? And what might change your choice?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/113124638/

Date: 04/30/07     Keywords: linux

And we seem to be down to two, Windows and Linux. Windows leads on the desktop, Linux in the enterprise. Jonathan Schwartz is seeking to find a place for Sun in this new world, but failure won't mean the gamble wasn't necessary, just that the gamble didn't work.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/113106509/

Date: 04/27/07     Keywords: no keywords

The fact is that the native operating system used by any piece of hardware is no longer the big deal it was even two years ago.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/112457535/

Date: 04/27/07     Keywords: linux

The Race to Linux contest, in which developers try to convert programs from other operating systems to Linux as fast as possible, drew six times the entrants as last year, an estimated 600.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/112456171/

Date: 04/26/07     Keywords: mysql, sql, microsoft

Is mySQL now a choice enterprises can place alongside Oracle, IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server? Or does it still have a long way to go?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/112204538/

Date: 04/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

You have to engage, intimately, with your target market. You have to let them into your own thinking, with arms open, let them feel the embrace of your brand, and mean it. Mr. Marketing Executive, Mr. Record Producer, Mr. Editor, tear down this wall.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/112168369/

Date: 04/25/07     Keywords: software

Eben Moglen announced on his blog this morning he is leaving the board of the Free Software Foundation.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/111879149/

Date: 04/25/07     Keywords: no keywords

What CollabNet has bought is SourceForge Enterprise Edition, a version of the site's services that was being sold to enterprises. Over the next year that will be integrated with CollabNet's own offerings.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/111873926/

Date: 04/24/07     Keywords: no keywords

It's a two step forward, one step back deal, sort of like watching a baby learn to walk. But eventually the baby does walk. The guess here is that Time Warner will adopt the open source walk as well, once it figures out how to make a buck off it.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/111594592/

Date: 04/23/07     Keywords: css, html, technology, web

Getting output from open source which is fully compliant with web standards like XHTML and CSS is a major challenge. Since the work of assuring such outputs is still hand-made, many projects are weak in this critical area. But shouldn't it be possible to identify the underlying code weaknesses using technology?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/111374992/

Date: 04/20/07     Keywords: microsoft

It's said that when a doctor had a patient who couldn't afford his services, back in the day, he would take a chicken or some milk or a pie in exchange. Microsoft's offer is like that. But what if the doctor said, when your son is grown and a doctor like me, then he treats me free when I get sick. Or he treats someone else, free. Pay it forward, in other words.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/110590851/

Date: 04/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

The aim of Red Hat's Kannapolis effort is to encourage sharing, with the hope of speeding innovation. For me it hearkens back to an old quote sometimes attributed to Robert Woodruff, chairman of The Coca-Cola Co. during its heyday. "There is no end to what a man can do if he doesn't care who gets the credit."

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/110356667/

Date: 04/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

Are you going to choose from among Groundwork, Zenoss, Hyperic or any other project based on their contributions to the movement, or do their contributions to your own bottom line matter exclusively?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/110353016/

Date: 04/18/07     Keywords: no keywords

The question is whether Linden Labs is geared up to make money at all. Despite the enormous PR buzz, the dollars have not been flying in.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/110054967/

Date: 04/18/07     Keywords: no keywords

We'll need effective lobbyists in every state capitol, as well as Washington. Until then, the law will be tilted in favor of the proprietary folks, just as it has long been tilted toward the telecomms.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/110051530/