Date: 03/06/08     Keywords: crm

Remember that SugarCRM "attribution license" that caused so much controversy last year? This is it on steroids.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/246775275/

Date: 03/05/08     Keywords: no keywords

The bottom line is you're paying roughly a 50% tax running WinTel. So why do companies still buy Windows? For the same reason their fathers and grandfathers bought IBM. Because everyone else does.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/246200637/

Date: 03/05/08     Keywords: no keywords

Managing relations between a commercial project and a community project is no easy feat. That balance is one of the primary themes here. Can Drupal and Acquia manage it?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/246166103/

Date: 03/05/08     Keywords: browser, web

Not surprisingly, Mozilla has announced that a beta 5 version of Firefox 3 will be necessary after all. As developers put the final touches on Beta 4, which is now in final build stage, Firefox developers deemed that another beta would be needed before final release of the much anticipated web browser upgrade. The development team [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/245802631/

Date: 03/05/08     Keywords: web, microsoft

Development tools vendor Curl — which is going up against Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Flex and OpenLazlo in the Rich Internet Applications arena — announced the commercial release of its open source web services development kit (WSDK) on Tuesday. The WSDK is one of three open source projects launched late last year by the Cambridge, Mass company. [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/245794817/

Date: 03/04/08     Keywords: linux

Linux may no longer be pounding its head on the expectation of desktop market share, and may go straight for the hand.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/245516095/

Date: 03/03/08     Keywords: no keywords

I think this represents a cautionary tale about the difference between open source and proprietary business models.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/244932827/

Date: 03/03/08     Keywords: technology, microsoft

The problem is not with the Microsoft technology. The problem is with the Microsoft attitude, which seems eerily similar to what we've seen in U.S. politics for a long time now.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/244609883/

Date: 02/29/08     Keywords: no keywords

It's just possible that open source developers make more because they're the people who are most anxious, and willing, to seek new skills and new challenges.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/243398283/

Date: 02/29/08     Keywords: no keywords

The question of Sites or Sharepoint really depends on where you think the growth of computing will be, on your hardware or in the cloud's? That's the real trillion-dollar question.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/243380475/

Date: 02/28/08     Keywords: microsoft

I think Microsoft needs to undertake some diplomacy that will put a final, definitive line under all this. But what would you do if the EU fined you?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/242840231/

Date: 02/28/08     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft plans to give people what they know they want from open source, support it better than an open source project can, and get its enterprise market share back.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/242723872/

Date: 02/27/08     Keywords: linux, hosting, microsoft

A group of former execs from a Microsoft messaging hosting partner are going to launch a Linux-based unified communications platform that will compete directly against Microsoft. Unison, a two-year-old developer based in New York, plans to release into beta testing the Linux server and Windows client code at CeBIT 2008 on March 4. The finished server, [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/242348087/

Date: 02/26/08     Keywords: no keywords

The Mozilla Firefox 3 development team expects to freeze the beta 4 code tonight as planned but will likely have to release yet another beta to address some of the outstanding bugs and blockers in the code. During its weekly Firefox meeting on Tuesday, developers said they will freeze the code tonight, on Feb 26 [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/241714346/

Date: 02/26/08     Keywords: mysql, sql

Sun announced today that it has completed its $1 billion acquisition of MySQL and plans to continue making open source acquisitions as opportunities arise. “Open source is really in Sun’s DNA,” said Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, (to the right in the above photo), noting there are many open source companies out there ripe for the [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/241616491/

Date: 02/25/08     Keywords: linux

Linux has not made significant strides in the mobile space because the industry is still too tightly controlled by proprietary manufacturers and and too contested by Linux rivals, Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth maintains. In an interview with Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin posted last night, the creator of Ubuntu – whose recently launched Ubuntu Mobile Edition [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/241101081/

Date: 02/25/08     Keywords: no keywords

It can be difficult to build relationships of trust and so I have seen some projects ultimately stalled because new folks who came in with new ideas weren’t able to establish a position of trust fast enough that they could start to contribute those ideas and so they would then move on

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/240848646/

Date: 02/23/08     Keywords: no keywords

Linden Labs, whose Second Life is so cool yet so lacking in profits it's been lampooned in an IBM ad, sent out an e-mail alert this week boasting that open source is giving the company, well, a second life.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/240010515/

Date: 02/22/08     Keywords: no keywords

What Ballmer's defenders, like Hillary Clinton's defenders, miss is that their best arguments may be showing just how much history has passed their heroes by.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/239538483/

Date: 02/22/08     Keywords: software

Hardware is software.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/239441472/