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CentricCRM Does Well In IBM Posse
Date: 03/15/07
Keywords: microsoft
Every major vendor today has a "posse," a set of open source vendors who surround it and live in its ecosystem. Microsoft has one. Novell has one. RedHat has one. IBM's is like the company itself, quiet, corporate, and shy unless they have something to say.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/101960072/
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Linux silly season hits Dell
Date: 03/14/07
Keywords: no keywords
If Dell is serious about open source, it needs to get in the game. It needs to become active, providing support for specific projects its corporate clients want. It needs to engage at Slashdot and, yes, even here.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/101683464/
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Do We Need Operating Systems?
Date: 03/14/07
Keywords: no keywords
With virtualization you don't really need an enterprise operating system -- the OS hooks come with the application. And reportedly RedHat 5 is going to support the open source Xen Hypervisor.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/101664235/
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No open source pressure in Viacom-Google case
Date: 03/13/07
Keywords: hosting, google
Viacom claims Google's YouTube is profiting from piracy, but YouTube is not monetizing the traffic in question. Viacom is, but its costs for hosting are not inconsiderable, its distribution capacity is limited, and the failure to create a network of online resellers is, over the long run, untenable.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/101400348/
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Should Microsoft be required to cooperate with open source?
Date: 03/12/07
Keywords: microsoft
It would seem to be in Microsoft's best interests to get a standard out there. Identity, which includes the management of passwords as well as credit card data, really hasn't progressed much in the last 10 years, partly due to Microsoft intransigence.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/101118168/
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Open source becomes political wedge issue
Date: 03/09/07
Keywords: no keywords
The Conservative Party, which has its best chance of taking power in a decade, is now using the idea of open source as a wedge issue, a way to talk about its approach to governance using popular terms like "bottom-up" and "transparency."
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/100511054/
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Does open source make Gates right on immigration?
Date: 03/08/07
Keywords: microsoft
If Microsoft can't find the people it wants here, at the price it's willing to pay, one would think it can certainly find them elsewhere. Yet Gates said Microsoft has 1,500 positions it can't fill, right now.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/100282264/
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How good an open source citizen can Oracle become?
Date: 03/08/07
Keywords: software
At the heart of the open source movement, as opposed to the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) movement, is that moves like those Oracle is making should be welcomed and encouraged. But it doesn't mean we close our eyes to the underlying reality.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/100269592/
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OrangeHRM and the new development model
Date: 03/07/07
Keywords: software
This is the new model for software development. Your people can be anywhere, your company can come from anywhere, and you use the Internet to tie it all together.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/100005992/
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Open biology is the new buzzword
Date: 03/06/07
Keywords: no keywords
Regardless of the term which is used, the need for the open biology movement is obvious. We have enormous challenges which only open inquiry can meet, but we have a research system where all the incentives run toward keeping discoveries secret with patent and copyright.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/99747836/
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Exadel finds a different way to open source
Date: 03/05/07
Keywords: no keywords
When there is free scut-work to do (and there always is) who will do it, RedHat or Exadel? Fleury famously complained of a lack of RedHat support. Was that just a tactic by RedHat to get rid of him (I was once a victim of such a dodge) or is RedHat really a Tom Sawyer outfit, talking others into whitewashing its fence?
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/99474493/
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Microsoft playing three card monte with XML conversion
Date: 03/02/07
Keywords: xml, microsoft
Edwards charges that conversions using the ODF's daVinci and ACME 376 systems worked fine in all beta releases of Office 2007, then broke in the final public version. Microsoft did this, he writes, through changes to OOXML, a Microsoft proprietary product built into its Exchange/SharePoint Hub.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/98493137/
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Who decides what is open source?
Date: 03/01/07
Keywords: no keywords
EnterpriseDB is quite frank about what it's about. A shark is not the cute, cuddly mascot we associate with open source. You buy from an outfit with a shark as its mascot, you know what you're getting into.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/97937714/
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The first political victory for open source
Date: 02/28/07
Keywords: no keywords
We're finally admitting that copyright absolutism doesn't work. And that's a very important story.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/97385153/
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Open source is the software you own
Date: 02/28/07
Keywords: software
I often see proprietary advocates re-frame open source as communist or socialist, in their comments here and elsewhere. But Tomlinson's view of the matter seems profoundly conservative, something right out of the Bush Administration playbook. Open source is the ownership society applied to software.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/97359435/
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The Germans are coming, with open source and SaaS
Date: 02/27/07
Keywords: software, linux
Customers won't know they're using GPL code or Linux or anything of the sort. They will be buying enhanced email from their ISP, and their evaluation will be based on 1&1's ability to deliver, not Open-Xchange software.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/96867607/
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Standards make open source political
Date: 02/26/07
Keywords: no keywords
Those who favor open standards and, just as important, royalty-free open standards, which are at the heart of the Internet, have to be in the political game, or we're guaranteed to lose.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/96266176/
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Can Dell change the Linux market?
Date: 02/26/07
Keywords: linux
Dell should understand that this is not primarily a desktop play, but a server play. Many big companies are placing big orders for Linux servers, and Dell's dithering means it's losing orders.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/96247610/
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Less to Raymond letter than meets the eye, or more?
Date: 02/23/07
Keywords: software, asp
Open source is about trust. It's not about who has the most money, but who has the most friends. Failure to grasp that fact is costing us the market. If that is the lesson of Raymond's letter, America's software dominance may fade fast.
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/94890423/
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Would Sugar under Windows be as sweet?
Date: 02/22/07
Keywords: no keywords
If Sugar wants to profit in an environment where it doesn't work, should not a company like Splendid be able to move in? And if an open source company wants to use a license that allows commercial exploitation of its code, isn't that its look-out?
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/94377777/