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Green: Sun may release Solaris under GPL next

Open sourcing Java got its official start back in May when Suns new CEO Jonathan Schwartz and the new Executive Vice President of Software Rich Green took the stage at JavaOne 2006. During that presentation, Schwartz asked the question "Will Java be open sourced?" to which Green famously answered "Its...

Tags: General, Java, Commercial, Licenses, Community, Programming, Sun

Blog posts 2006-11-13

Day 3: Stein: "In 5-10 years, most of the software you use will be free"

(Greg Stein, chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, currently with Google, delivered this keynote on Wednesday morning at EclipseCon 2006. It was titled "Comparing Apache and Eclipse". -Ed) Jon Stevens is quoted as saying: "A license can ruin a perfectly good piece of software" One...

Tags: XFree86, GNU Public License

Blog posts 2006-03-22

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So where are those Windows 7 Beta bits?

For many, it was a day of clicking and realoading Microsoft's Windows page to no avail. It's now 5 p.m. ET. A lot of folks are calling it a day and heading home with no public Beta bits in hand. What the heck happened? by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Public Beta, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-01-09

CES 2009: I demo Panasonic's 3D Full HD Plasma Home Theater System

One of the hottest tickets—literally—at CES this year is to demo Panasonic's 3D Full HD Plasma Home Theater System setup, which uses a 103-inch plasma and a Blu-ray player to give users full 1080p content for each eye that's then yoked together into three dimensions with a special set of...

Tags: 3D, Panasonic, Home Theater, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Windows 7 - What we still don't know ...

With today's release of the public beta of Windows 7, there are still plenty of unanswered questions related to Microsoft's new OS. Let's examine some of them here. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-01-09

How to get the Win 7 public Beta bits

Based on all the queries I'm getting this morning, Microsoft might not have a problem getting the up-to 2.5 million public testers for the Windows 7 Beta release they are allowing. But the testers migh find themselves having a heck of a time getting the bits, which are due out...

Tags: Public Beta, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Bit, PT, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Amazon EC2 launches Web-based management console

Amazon Web Services announced a Web-based management console for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. According to Amazon's Web Services blog, the console allows you to access your environment with a user name or password. It adds: No more certificates or public/secret keys to manage! If...

Tags: Web, Password, Console, Amazon.com Inc., Management Console, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Windows 7 Beta 1: Ribbonized For Your Pleasure

The Windows 7 Operating System has improvements over Windows Vista which include more granular tuning of User Account Control UAC security prompts, a reduced memory footprint and improved performance on less powerful systems. But will the "Ribbonization" of the new user interface created by Steven Sinofsky's...

Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7 Operating System, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-01-08

From grassroots to government: Looking for a FOSS friendly national CTO

Will the first national CTO embrace open source? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes so. In a piece on CNN's Web site, Wales and Andrea Weckerle argue that the first national CTO needs to commit to open source and open standards: For the same reason that all government publications...

Tags: CTO, F/OSS, Government, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Let 'Em Go Cold Turkey on DTV, President Obama

By February 17, Barack Obama will be president. Already, he wants to delay the DTV transition scheduled for that night. Right now, TV stations across the country are supposed to flip the switch to all-digital signals at the end of...

Tags: Barack Obama, Digital Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Obama's push for alternative energy

Today President-elect Obama was specific in his call for more spending on energy conservation and on production of alternative, not-fossil-fuel-based, energy. Some items on the Obama wish list for his hoped-for stimulus plan: double alternative energy production in three years, construct a smarter electric grid to reduce waste,...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Barack Obama, Obama, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Getting ready for Windows 7 beta 1 - FAQ

I know that some of you are sick of hearing about Windows 7 already, but given the amount of email I've received with regards to the public beta being made available on Friday, you have a lot of questions about how you should prepare for testing. Here's a quick FAQ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Beta, Q, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Microsoft: Windows 7 means business

A top Microsoft Windows exec spoke to ZDNet UK about the new operating system's potential appeal for enterprise users. Windows 7 is going into public beta, Microsoft head Steve Ballmer announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas late on Wednesday. ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software, Microsoft Corp. Windows 7, John Curran, operating systems, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2009-01-08

CES 2009: Summing up Ballmer's first keynote [day 2]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer just wrapped up his first CES keynote, and I left feeling...vaguely satisfied. Not excited, or bored, but mildly hopeful. Clad in a burgundy v-neck sweater, a sprightly Ballmer kicked his speech off with gusto, proclaiming, "I'm ready to go and I'm here," and...

Tags: Phone, Partnership, Microsoft Windows 7, PC, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Windows, Business Structures, Telecom & Utilities, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Missing $1 Billion In Cash? Get In Line. The Phone Line.

So we're shocked. Satyam Computer Services is missing $1 billion of cash and bank loans. Chairman Ramalinga Raju says he falsified accounts. Raju just wanted to maintain operating margins. Which does not quite explain why cash is missing. You don't need to make up cash or...

Tags: Bank, Phone, Satyam, Phone Line, Satyam Computer Services, Parmalat, Financial Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Should open source boycott Cisco's contest?

Should open source boycott Cisco's contest?Its open source!If it is open source code, why shouldn't a company try to use it and integrate it into their solutions? A contest like this is perfect for a company to be paid for their open source applications and try to get their...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., open source, boycott

Discussion threads 2009-01-07

Sun acquires cloud computing vendor

Sun Microsystems said Wednesday that it has acquired Q-layer, a Belgium company that automates cloud computing deployments. Sun didn't offer a lot of detail in its statement. Q-layer will become part of Sun's cloud computing unit. The general idea is that Q-layer's technology will allow Sun to...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Q-layer, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Why Schiller's Macworld keynote is a big deal in the big picture

Why Schiller's Macworld keynote is a big deal in the big pictureSteve in a bottleLarry Dignan's brief analysis of the Apple situation is clear, concise, commonsensical and certainly correct. It's a welcome change from all the noise that has been bombarding us over the last few weeks... culminating in a...

Tags: Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-07

News to know: Macworld, CES preview, Windows 7

Macworld Coverage: Photos: Jobs fill-in touts media, MacBook updates Jason D. O'Grady: Live: Philip Schiller keynote at Macworld 2009 Sam Diaz: Apple's final Macworld: Schiller delivers but announcements disappoint Apple expands DRM-free music selection [video] Apple reveals...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Digital-rights Management, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Matthew Miller, Macworld, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Digital Media, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-07

DocProtect 1.0 (Mac)

Developers and authors can now protect their investment and increase sales by ensuring only licensed customers can use their Mac OS X and Windows documents. With basic computer skills, anyone can use DocProtect on HTML projects, image collections, video and audio files, PDFs and Excel spreadsheets. DocProtect works independently or...

Tags: HTML, Apple Macintosh, Video, Computer, DocProtect 1.0, Productivity, Microsoft Excel, Apple Mac OS X, Corporate Communications, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-01-07