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Open Solutions Alliance looking for momentum boost
The Open Solutions Alliance is hoping to shake off some growing pains as it moves through its second year, according to its
president, Dominic Sartorio.
Gifts of Open Source
Combining 'Open Source' and 'storage' in the same sentence used to trigger a sardonic grin, but no longer. The availability
of free and open software is as true today for storage as it is for operating systems and applications.
Android developers' competition draws 1,788 entries
Developers from over 70 countries have submitted 1,788 entries to the Android Developer Challenge, according to Google.
Will MySQL Keep Lighting up LAMP?
For an executive who had just had his company bought for a cool billion a few months ago and was on the eve of announcing
a major update to his business' flagship database program, former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, now Sun Microsystems' senior vice
president for databases, didn't look comfortable. Mickos had come to the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit at the University
of Texas Super Computing Center to explain that MySQL was not about to abandon Linux. His audience, the movers and shakers
of Linux business and development circles, were not overly impressed.
The virtual office gains ground
Virtual reality is making its move from gaming and social sites into the business world.
Red Hat skips consumer Linux desktop
Red Hat has no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market, but will continue to place its bets
on a desktop for commercial markets.
Open Source Census launches
The Open Source Census, an effort to pin down hard statistics regarding the implementation of open-source software around
the world, gets underway on Wednesday.
Submitted by dmarti on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:38:01 -0400
Jeff Atwood writes about the allure of $0 software. Some developers are attracted to open source not because of access to the source, or the peer review, or the fact that people just write cleaner ...
Sunday April 20, 2008
Brian Aker: krow.net: Ebay Memory Engine
Just as a note the Ebay memory engine has been ...
LinuxWorld community: Paying for software?
Jeff Atwood writes about the allure of $0 software. Some developers are attracted to open source ...
LinuxWorld community: Friday links: routers, rockets, comics
Good essay on how
direct mail advice from the 1930s applies to today's
search engine marketing: ...
• Computer experts protest Microsoft OOXML
• US software lock-ins harm local bidders
• Open source companies grab VC cash
• Virgin’s In-Flight Entertainment runs Linux
• Vyatta unveils open source appliance for SMBs
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LinuxWorld Conference and Expo San Francisco, August 4-7, 2008.
