This post is our contribution to the community to highlight some of the women in Open Source and to hopefully engage other women to join.
“We here at Pingdom have been talking about why we don’t see that many women in Open Source, and were actually about to investigate it further and possibly write a blog [...]
Windows Vista debuted to muffled applause, followed by lackluster sales. Up until June 30, cash-strapped businesses looking to avoid the cost of upgrading to new Vista-compatible hardware could still purchase trusty Windows XP. Now, however, Windows XP is available only as a costly “downgrade” from Windows Vista–if you buy a copy of Vista, you can [...]
According to Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation:
“Never before in the history of computing have there been so many companies, users and developers united behind one project, specifically one that has seen so much commercial success.”
Some facts:
• Who is Writing Linux?
Every Linux kernel is being developed by nearly 1,000 developers working for more than [...]
There has been a whole lot of buzz about Funambol since the WWDC keynote, mostly touting the open-source offering as a wonderful free alternative to MobileMe. MobileMe, in case you’ve just awoken from a coma, is Apple’s sync everything everywhere solution.
Funambol offers open-source mobile syncing software for email, contacts and calendars. It works with Exchange, Domino, [...]
“Mozilla, which makes the Web browser, served up more than 8.3 million downloads in 24 hours, according to CEO John Lilly’s blog. At the height of the Firefox frenzy, Mozilla logged 17,000 downloads per minute, or 283 per second, and people in over 200 countries acquired the new software. The launch, planned for 10 a.m. [...]
Open source is more than a marketing buzzword — it is a developer state of mind delivering real returns to companies and the broader market, writes Dave McAllister, director of standards and open source for Adobe Systems.
It’s an interesting question: Why would large, established companies like Adobe and others embrace open source strategies? In some [...]
“By 2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms,” predicts a Gartner report, The State of Open Source 2008, which sees a “stealth” impact for the technology in embedded form: “Users who reject open source for technical, legal or business reasons might find themselves unintentionally using open [...]
PayPal runs thousands of Linux-based, single-rack-unit servers, which host the company’s Web-presentation layer, middleware and user interface. Thompson says he quickly saw the economic, operational and development advantages of open source and Linux technology. He now sees no other way to do it.
On the back end, these thousands of systems communicate with just a few [...]
Consumer devices: Revealing the underlying technical details of electronic gadgets can have many benefits, for both users and manufacturers.
All of which suggests that open-source hardware will really start to make a difference when big hardware makers and consumer-electronics firms begin to embrace the idea. “It’s a new day for consumer electronics,” says Chumby’s Mr Tomlin. [...]
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has hinted at the likelihood of an ultra-portable netbook pre-loaded with Ubuntu Remix in the very near future. Ubuntu Remix is the lightweight version of Ubuntu that Canonical announced last week.
Writing on his blog Shuttleworth says that “the Canonical OEM team has been approached by a number of OEMs who want [...]
Here are the links to latest happenings in Open Source arena:
Major Linux Migrations: An Unbelievable List of Nearly 100
European Commission to increase its use of Open Source
Dutch Parliament to use Open Source Software
Risky Business: Predicting that open source vendors will ultimately win
The new case for open source data protection
Network Security Concerns? Consider Open Source
Beginning a [...]
MICROSOFT may have to resist popping the champagne cork over gaining ISO approval for its controversial Office Open XML file format as an international standard.
Brazil has filed a letter asking that ISO’s approval of OOXML be reconsidered. South Africa was the first to file a formal appeal. India has also filed an appeal and now [...]
Microsoft Office Service Pack 2 will have support for ODF and PDF, which is expected to be out in the first half of 2009, according to a confidential Microsoft press release viewed by the [...]
Here are few latest links to open source related posts:
Eight Things Microsoft Can And Should Do To Be More ‘Open’
Worry About Integration, Not Installation
To Market, To Market
Cohen’s negotiated open source idea moving ahead
Open Source, by Any Other Name….
Is Enterprise Linux the modern day George Jacques Danton of your datacenter?
If you are new to WordPress and looking for reasons to use WordPress as a CMS (content management system) in your new website, let me give you some.
Open Source Software
WordPress is an Open Source software which allows it to be used free of cost. You can use it on any kind of personal or commercial [...]
Linux may be a free platform for many and a reasonably inexpensive alternative to Unix and proprietary platforms for others, but make no mistake. For years, Linux has been big business, and if projections made by the market researchers at IDC turn out to be correct, in a few short years the Linux server ecosystem [...]
There have been rumors since last year that Valve may be serious about porting Source games to Linux after Valve Software began seeking a senior software engineer with the responsibility of porting Windows-based games to the Linux platform. Valve Software has yet to officially announce Linux clients for any of its [...]
This month’s Harvard Business Review features a case study of a company debating whether to open source its software. Here’s a mini review of the article.
Adobe has announced the Open Screen Project. The Open Screen Project is actually open and is designed to push consistent rich Internet experiences across a plethora of devices and varying screens.
The Open Screen Project will address potential technology fragmentation by enabling the runtime technology to be updated seamlessly over the air on mobile devices. The [...]
Companies building websites should beware of proprietary rich-media technologies like Adobe’s Flash and Microsoft’s Silverlight, the founder of Mozilla Europe has warned.
Speaking at the Internet World conference in London on Tuesday, Tristan Nitot claimed such applications threaten the open nature of the internet because the companies behind them could “have an agenda”. While he [...]
Formula One motor racing is no longer about famous car marques, its about precise science and using technology to shave another fraction of a second off a lap time, and Linux is playing a pivotal role in helping the race teams achieve this.
As a technical sport motor racing demands of its participants a close understanding [...]
Open source continues moving from strength-to-strength, especially true in international markets, where skeptics once believed pirated Windows would dominate.
ApacheCon Europe grew 40% this year.
Open source trade groups are growing across Asia, driven by support from big vendors.
Open source is extending ever-further outward, to storage, training and moviemaking.
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