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- Apache 2.2.14 (Mac)
- The Apache Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP Web server. The project is jointly managed by a group of volunteers located around the world, using the Internet and the Web to communicate, plan, and...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apache Software Foundation, Apache Project, Software Development, Open Source, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-10-06
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- Terracotta buys Quartz
- Open source Java clustering software developer Terracotta announced its intent to buy an open source job scheduler known as Quartz. The integration of Quartz into Terracotta's platform will ease high availability job scheduling and scaling applications to multiple nodes, the company said. Quartz is currently integrated into...
- Tags: Job, Clustering, Terracotta, Quartz, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Competition made Microsoft open source embedded .NET
- Hair line cracks?Is the "Kontrol" program from "Tron" beginning to crack?CE would be smart to go Linux.Less hassles, more reliability and no licensing costs.It's a no-brainer - Linux > Windows.LOL!"The handwriting was probably on the wall here years ago, when Linux bought Wind River, and when innovative start-up Cavium bought...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Construction, Microsoft .NET, Linux, handwriting, Microsoft .NET Framework, wall, Microsoft Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Making a foundation a real solution to the mySQL mess
- Sounds good. Too good?This sounds like a great solution to a problem that is probably costing Oracle, destroying what little credibility Sun has as a brand, while ensuring that every website on the planet virtually retains access to a free, secure and efficient database. If we don't do something, the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Dana, MySQL, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Microsoft partners to allow Eclipse interop on Win7, WinServer 2008 R2, Azure
- Eclipse should decline the 'plug ins'M$ only ries to extend and extinguish here folks!Self interests always......Isn't that what most things revolve around? I'm sure that if Linux had a chance to extend and draw to its platform by working with Microsoft it would, unless they are too stupid to...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Eclipse, Linux, Mircosoft, Azure, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development
- You really believe that?Look at Red Hat. $5.1 Bln market cap and they're not making *any* money with free software? There is plenty of money out there for consulting services and support. Just ask IBM.Proprietary software is not religion.The problem with Sun was that they couldn't commit either...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Websters, MySQL, GPL, Stallman
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Engine Yard draws funding as it ushers more developers onto the Ruby services train
- testingtestA knit[i]"The result has propelled a wave of alternative stacks, such as LAMP (Linux-Apache web server-MySQL-and either PHP, Python, or Perl"[/i]LAMP has been at work for YEARS supporting the backbone of the Internet.Ruby is still 'wet behind the ears' and I wouldn't recommend it on any major project.I'll take Perl...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, Ruby
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Yahoo pays its 'technical debt' with IT overhaul
- Yahoo had a lot of "technical debt"---systems that most companies would call legacy infrastructure---and has it just about paid off. Sam Pullara, chief technologist at Yahoo, walked developers through its infrastructure changes over the last three years. The talk could have come from any enterprise that finds...
- Tags: Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Sam Pullara, HBase, YQL, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Open Source, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- On the future of Open Source thought leadership
- It's time we recognized the advantages of bothIMHO it's time to recognize the advantages in both, and not to do silly things like pretend that somehow software is a moral agent.I can certainly see the advantage of software being open source. It helps the educational community, and gives tools to...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Free Software, leadership, Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services, open source, proprietary software, Microsoft Corp., hardware, software
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- BitNami Redmine Stack 0.8.5-0 (Windows)
- BitNami Redmine stack is an easy-to-install distribution of the Redmine project management software. It includes pre-configured, ready to run versions of Apache, Ruby, Subversion and MySQL. Currently, Linux is supported. BitNami Stacks are built with one goal in mind: to make it as easy as possible to install open source...
- Tags: Software, Stack, Microsoft Windows, BitNami, BitNami Stacks, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Strategy, Open Source, Management, It Operations, It service Management
- Software downloads 2009-09-28
- Red Hat CEO vs. Torvalds: More Linux features don't equate to bloat
- Linux distro appliances are the futureCompanies are wising up and getting away from MS 20G worm/virus operating systems and going to Linux distro driven appliances.It is the future with appliances no one needs a Windows OS with Office for someone to open a (.doc) to edit it is a security...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, COMPANIES, Red Hat Inc., Linux, desktop, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.
- Show me the innovation StallmanWhile Microsoft pushes forward software technology and produces modern software, open source continues to copy the trailing edge of the innovators. Want an Office97 copy? Want a media player that works on all platforms but just not as well as Windows Media Player, want...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Jason, F/OSS, Stallman, software
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- Does Oracle matter to open source
- only as long as Oracle fights M$the reason OSS is doing very well is because people hate M$ and proprietary software in general.As long as Oracle will fund this insurgency against the evil M$ empire everybody will be better off.Eventually M$ will collapse like the Soviet Union and great days...
- Tags: open source, proprietary software, OSS, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- Microsoft founds, funds a new open-source foundation
- Thank You M.J.I just read this with extreme interest. Thank you for the post and sharing this information."My first thought..If you cannot beat them, join them"The power of Open SourceYears ago Bill Gates himself criticized Open Source and the GPL Gnu Public License. Yet, Microsoft has finally realized the...
- Tags: software foundation, GPL, Microsoft Corp., open source, Free Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Apache HTTP Server for Windows 2.2.13 (Windows)
- The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows NT. The main goal of Apache HTTP Server is to provide an efficient, secure and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current...
- Tags: HTTP Server, Apache Software Foundation, Apache Web Server, Server, Microsoft Windows, Apache HTTP Server Project, Web Servers, Open Source, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-08-11
- Geek Sheet: Virtualizing Free Linux Distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2
- It's been a while since we've had a hardcore Geek Sheet installment, and I promise that this one will be a real winner. Some of you may be aware that the updated Hyper-V bare-metal hypervisor virtualization layer in Microsoft's upcoming Windows Server 2008 R2 (Which is due...
- Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux Distribution, Mouse, Network, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, SLES, LinuxIC, OpenSUSE 11.1, ENTER, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-08-09
- Open-source XML-enabled application risk identified
- Since XML is the foundation of all things SOA, any perceived security vulnerabilities need to be looked at very seriously. At issue appear to be XML-enabled applications built in Python, the open source language. Network World's Ellen Messmer surfaced an advisory, issued by Codenomicon, working in conjunction...
- Tags: Vulnerability, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), XML, Security, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Intuit creates open source community
- Earlier today, I had a conversation with Alex Chriss and Alex Barnett of Intuit as they discussed the creation of code.intuit.com Intuit's open source community. This is a smart move and one that I'd suggested would be a welcome addition to IPP when we last spoke. In...
- Tags: Intuit Inc., Open-source Community, VerticalResponse, Web Services, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Is Microsoft's GPL2 support really a big deal?
- Microsoft's decison to release 20,000 lines of device driver code under GPLv2 is viewed as a big deal but not that surprising given the context. After all, the only technology Microsoft fears more than Linux is VMware's bare-metal virtualization platform. The release of the three device drivers...
- Tags: Device Driver, Microsoft Corp., GPL 2, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Why Apache is not the bottom of the open source incline
- Why Apache is not the bottom of the open source inclineWith Apache, you can permit anybody to contribute, no questions asked, nothing to sign, and STILL sell proprietary versions to clients. With GPL, you have to make third party contributors sign everything over to you, which they often resent, and...
- Tags: Java development tools, Tony, open source, Eclipse, Apache Software Foundation, EPL, GPL
- Discussion threads 2009-07-16
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