Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: software, web, linux, hosting

Ubuntu CEO Mark Shuttleworth sees Linux playing a big role in the cloud and in mobile computing – especially his own server and client software. In a brief interview with ZDNet after his OSBC panel, Shuttleworth said the Ubuntu Linux server will be a significant platform for hosting thousands of web services and the desktop [...]

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Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft's idea is that you can have its system or be exiled to the woods, with its choices and risks. Especially the risk that your vendor of choice will go toes-up, leaving you like Little Red Riding Hood before the big, bad wolf.

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Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: linux

Only three months into the job, newly named Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst is ready to talk about what he sees as the Linux company’s big flaws. No doubt, Red Hat is the leading open source company but ”I don’t think we’ve done a good enough job” of leading the industry, the former Delta [...]

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Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: no keywords

I know it gives employees a warm feeling to know that the VC money is flowing and Big Blue believes in them. But what should this mean to the EnterpriseDB community? Does IBM's backing for an open source company give you the same feeling, or something queasier?

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Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: web

Acquia is on track to launch its first commercial product this fall based on the open source social web publishing Drupal project. On the exhibit floor at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, Drupal community guide Kieran Lai said all systems are go for the Avon, mass. startup to ship the product, code named [...]

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Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: no keywords

GroundWork Open Source is moving higher up the food chain. To that end, the company launched at the start of the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco its first enterprise edition and a significant upgrade of its networking monitoring platform that is more scalable and extensible. GroundWork Monitor 5.2’s monitoring capacity has improved by a factor [...]

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Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: no keywords

The government and private business are colluding to limit competition in wireless services, to keep prices high. High prices for service justify high prices for spectrum.

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Date: 03/22/08     Keywords: software, browser

Mozilla’s CEO blasted Apple for distributing its Safari browser via the Apple Software Update service on Windows that is used by millions of iTunes users. In a blog posted today, John Lilly, the chief executive of Mozilla, claimed the distribution practice is unethical because it allegedly tricks users into downloading not only their regular iTunes and [...]

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Date: 03/21/08     Keywords: no keywords

Red Hat has made its certificate system open source.

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Date: 03/20/08     Keywords: linux

But thanks to this most proprietary of companies, all is not lost. Linux phones of all types will be welcome -- anything, Verizon thinks, that can break AT&T (and Apple's) market grip. How ironic is that?

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Date: 03/20/08     Keywords: no keywords

The idea is the site will not just attract Appcelerator developers, but anyone in a field related to the RIA tools it offers. That includes the whole AJAX community as well as the emerging mobile Internet development folks.

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Date: 03/20/08     Keywords: software

The Perens campaign is about serious issues, the most important being the continuing tension between the needs of vendors and free software advocates. Those tensions have never been entirely put to bed.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/254904180/

Date: 03/19/08     Keywords: linux

Novell opened the kimono on its development plans for SUSE Linux Enterprise Linux 11 at Brainshare 2008 this week but let it be known the product won’t ship until 2009 or possibly 2010. In fact, the Cambridge, Mass. won’t even provide a planned ship date until the end of this year. In any case, the [...]

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Date: 03/19/08     Keywords: no keywords

Open source is a shared base. Competition takes place on top of that base. But before a new market can truly consolidate it becomes part of the base, and monopoly power is frustrated.

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Date: 03/19/08     Keywords: google

In my view Schmidt is piling false fears on top of false choices, and insisting we all dance to his tune. But remember Schmidt didn't found Google, he was the "grown-up" brought in to supervise Sergey, Larry, and the rest of the kids.

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Date: 03/19/08     Keywords: software, asp

JasperSoft is releasing a new open source version of its business intelligence software and calling itself the most widely-deployed business intelligence (BI) product in the world. The company’s LGPL and GPL Community Edition is downloaded over 70,000 times per month, CEO Brian Gentile (above) said, but the BI market is so large the company will now focus [...]

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Date: 03/18/08     Keywords: no keywords

Schmidt is playing with open source here much as politicians have been playing with race, religion and gender. By creating a phony "either-or" choice they create majorities and minorities. But open source is about consensus.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/253817207/

Date: 03/18/08     Keywords: no keywords

Misys Healthcare fulfilled its earlier commitment to open source its code last month. Its chief open source officer, Tim Elwell, told ZDNet that commitment remains in place.

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Date: 03/17/08     Keywords: no keywords

I need to say a few words about my late friend Russell Shaw. I knew him better than anyone at ZDNet, perhaps, because I knew him longer. Over 22 years. When I first met Russell, he was still coming down off rock and roll. Few from his recent past know this, but he actually started off as a rock [...]

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Date: 03/17/08     Keywords: java, microsoft

The Eclipse organization has amassed a huge installed base of developers using its Java-based open source development tools. Now the organization has set its sights on the run-time arena and will take on Sun’s Java and Microsoft’s .NET with what it says is an agnostic open source component model that runs across multiple operating systems [...]

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