Date: 03/17/08     Keywords: no keywords

The challenge is what it has always been, to organize and advocate a community, industry or lifestyle. Bringing sellers together with buyers is a key part of the mission. The mission hasn't changed. Get off your butts and sell the ads.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/253027812/

Date: 03/17/08     Keywords: software, asp

As the software industry increasingly moves to a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, Fabrizio Capobianco of Funambol writes, the license's closing of the "ASP loophole" will become a vital protection for software users.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/252988068/

Date: 03/16/08     Keywords: asp, linux, microsoft

Novell’s Mono project has delivered its first Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Mono as well as a beta version of the next Mono platform. MonoDevelop 1.0, with support for Microsoft’s .NET Framework 1.0, is an open source IDE for Linux developers building GNOME and ASP.NET applications. The IDE complements the Mono open source platform, which [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/252474485/

Date: 03/14/08     Keywords: no keywords

Our work shows that open source is expanding into new domains and applications at an exponential rate.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/251502065/

Date: 03/14/08     Keywords: software, microsoft

The Software Freedom Law Center has a paper out today making this charge regarding Microsoft's Open Specification Promise. It was easily made and can be easily broken.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/251395279/

Date: 03/13/08     Keywords: software

You do just as you would with a press release. Only you load your software onto the stick.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/250908339/

Date: 03/13/08     Keywords: no keywords

Having a U.S. office, usually in Silicon Valley or San Francisco, is still considered the first step toward competing not just in the American market but worldwide.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/250754850/

Date: 03/13/08     Keywords: no keywords

We know we have to engage the community earlier in the process. But we also know they have zero obligation.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/250746742/

Date: 03/12/08     Keywords: linux

The GNOME Foundation announced the release of version 2.22 on Wednesday, an update that offers enhanced multimedia support, new file system, and enhanced e-mail, internationalization and accessibility features. GNOME is used in many popular Linux distributions from Ubuntu, Novell, Red Hat, Mandriva and Debian. The version 2.22 announced today will be incorporated into the [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/250328597/

Date: 03/12/08     Keywords: no keywords

Midland Memorial Hospital got an $18 million EMR system for $7 million, thanks to open source.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/250196585/

Date: 03/11/08     Keywords: linux

Reports on the death of the Wal-Mart Linux PC are greatly exaggerated, according to the man selling its operating system.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/249770628/

Date: 03/11/08     Keywords: web

This year may be a turning point in Web development, as the decisions of mobile players begin to wag the desktop dog.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/249654169/

Date: 03/11/08     Keywords: software

Open Country, once a rising star in the open source management software market, closed doors in 2007. But its former CEO, Laurent Gharda, isn’t giving up on its software. Gharda acquired intellectual property rights to Open Country’s core assets including its provisioning software and today launched a company called LinMin that focuses on affordable bare metal [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/249617939/

Date: 03/11/08     Keywords: java, linux

Firefox 3 is closer to the finish line with the release of beta 4 tonight. The release, posted as expected Monday evening, offers testers a variety of enhancements included more refined user interfaces for Windows, Mac and Linux, enhanced search in the Download Manager, performance improvements via the new JavaScript engine, and new features including an [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/249282025/

Date: 03/10/08     Keywords: no keywords

Craig Muzilla said a Red Hat reorganization over the last six months has given him responsibility for middleware profits, and he's now applying market lessons to addressing perceived problems.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/249010315/

Date: 03/10/08     Keywords: no keywords

Is it a problem that open source, as a rule, is immune to the celebrity worship which Ms. Lacy, and so many other reporters, now practice? Or does Linus need a makeover?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/248884600/

Date: 03/09/08     Keywords: software, web, microsoft, google

Right now, it seems everything is about Microsoft because its software is a de-facto standard, and it's accused of constantly manipulating that standard to maintain its advantage. As that changes, as the battle shifts from client software to the Web, does Google become the ogre?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/248467615/

Date: 03/07/08     Keywords: no keywords

We usually think of open source as replacing what exists, and critics may thus deem it non-innovative. But open source is integral to homebrew robotics, and over the next few years we're going to get a lot more than vacuum cleaners out of it.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/247405011/

Date: 03/06/08     Keywords: xml, microsoft

Microsoft today launched an update of its OpenXML and ODF translator for its Excel and Powerpoint applications and pledged to keep churning out more documentation to enable interoperability — and more patents to protect that IP. At an event in Cambridge, Mass., Microsoft’s interoperability chief Tom Robertson announced the document interoperability initiative, availability [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/247032843/

Date: 03/06/08     Keywords: no keywords

In the past, "We didn't make quite as big a deal about engaging with the open source community and getting to the latest kernel version, and making boards that really go after the open source developers."

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/246968814/