- Red Hat News | RHX: Lessons Learned – RHX is different now. The team is smaller and the target market is different; but, fundamentally, RHX is smarter. It’s very much alive and is undergoing its third iteration.
- The Real Firefox-Killer | Linux Journal – This new competitor to Firefox is called Maxthon, and, significantly, come from China. This is relevant because the Chinese computer sector has tended to evolve according to its own rules.
- Linux News: Business: Open Source Development Is Smart Business – To succeed and truly benefit the open source community, companies need to find a balance between maintaining their competitive advantage and working closely with customers and developers.
- Would the baddest Roadrunner please step forward – IBM’s supercomputer called Roadrunner is now the fastest in the world.
It is capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion operations per second, which is a lot. - Cloudy Saturday: Roll Your Own Cloud with Enomalism | OStatic – Enomalism uses the XMPP protocol to manage clusters of Ruby applications and helps with scaling them – a novel take from the application layer, instead of the system layer.
- OpenPanel.com | Open Source Server control panel – OpenPanel is a completely modular open source control panel for Internet Service Providers.
- Announcing the MindTouch Developer Center | MindTouch, Inc Blog – A few months ago, we made the decision to start phasing out OpenGarden – we finally took the first huge step towards completing that task today.
- Standalone OSS revenue to reach $4.83 billion by 2012 | Negative Approach – CNET News.com – –IDC expects worldwide revenue from standalone OSS to grow at a 23 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to reach $4.83 billion by 2012.
–Worldwide revenue from standalone OSS in 2007 was $1.73 billion. - Interchange Open Source Commerce Server – Interchange is an open source commerce server and application server/component application, written in the Perl programming language.
- Red Hat looks out for OSS community with patent settlement – Red Hat announced today that it has settled a patent dispute with Firestar and DataTern over two patents, including one that covers object-relational database mapping—a technique that is used in Hibernate
- Dimdim: Free Live Meeting, Web Conferencing Software – DimDim free web meeting software. Open source edition available.
- Linux.com :: openSUSE’s Brockmeier sees distro coming into its own – After two and a half years, the distro is not only still working out details about how its community operates — including how its governing board is elected — but also struggling to come out of the shadow of its corporate parent Novell
- Open Source Business Models: let’s start from the production of code | Commercial Open Source Software – It is useful to recap what is an open source business model. Researchers, tech writers and consultants often taxonomize open source business models mentioning just the license scheme and what is sold the most.
- The OSC’s open letter to Becta – Communication Breakdown – David Meyer’s Blog at ZDNet.co.uk Community – “Becta awarded their ‘Open Source Schools’ project to establishment insiders and cronies, with no Open Source credentials or capabilities, rather than organisations who could and would make the project work.”
- Web Browsers: Speed Testing the Latest Web Browsers – No clear winner in the browser bake-off but IE does surprisingly well, Firefox performs well in memory usage. IE is faster than expected.
- Linux.com :: Linux in education: Open Source provides a better solution for schools – Linux has been making inroads into K-12 education for years, but Microsoft’s move to require an audit of 300 school districts nationwide has brought Open Source into the educational limelight. As schools analyze alternatives to hefty licensing fees.
- Specter: Immunity for journalists, not eavesdropping telecoms – Senator Arlen Specter with a panel of journalists at the American Civil Liberties Union’s annual convention earlier this week to urge support for a federal shield law that would protect journalists from being compelled to disclose confidential sources.
- BusinessWeek – Nokia: Linux Needs to Learn Business – At the Handsets World conference in Berlin on Tuesday, Dr Ari Jaaksi told delegates that the open-source community needed to be ‘educated’ in the way the mobile industry currently works, because the industry has not yet moved beyond old business models.
- Leaving Yahoo! (by Jeremy Zawodny) – Technical evangelist Jeremy Zawodny leave Yahoo!
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