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- Open Source
- Refers to software that is distributed with its source code so that end user organizations and vendors can modify it for their own purposes. Most open source licenses allow...
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- Ksplice Uptrack eliminates Linux server reboots, Sunday hours
- Researchers at MIT have turned an innovative open source security technology known as Ksplice into a commercial product. Ksplice Uptrack, whose general availability was announced today, eliminates the need to reboot Linux servers to perform monthly updates and security patches, the Cambridge, Mass. company said. ...
- Tags: Linux Server, Ksplice Uptrack, Subscription Fee, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2010-02-09
- How Microsoft uses open source to fight open source
- Microsoft's strategy against open source ties up institutions that are authoritative, creating a benefit for the institution that ties its members to proprietary Microsoft tools. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., British Library, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2010-02-09
- The language Google knows best is English
- Google is taking Microsoft down with the tools of journalism. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Google Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2010-02-09
- Ellison puts Screven over mySQL
- A start-up subsisting on pizza, even a small open source project, can be discovered by the masses and become world famous within a year. Will there be an easy migration path, or will that path be slammed shut? Ask Edward Screven. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Ellison, Jacobs, Internet Success, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2010-02-08
- Hunter pushes CodePlex as a business-oriented foundation
- One primary area we're trying to focus is the commercial software development area, and certainly the east coast is not only a center for software companies but large enterprise IT shops. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Benefit, Foundation, Paula Hunter, CodePlex Foundation, Andy Updegrove, Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2010-02-08
- UNetbootin 3.93 (Windows)
- UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a CD. You can either let it download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file if you've...
- Tags: UNetbootin, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Software downloads 2010-02-06
- x264Encoder 1.2.0 (Mac)
- x264 and libavcodec based QuickTime Media Compressor component. Support avc1, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Video Media. Support some MPEG-4 AVC features, including Main/High Profile up to Level 5.1. Source codes are included, and free software under GPL V2. Uses libx264.a, libavcodec.a and others from x264 git and ffmpeg SVN. Universal Binary
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, SVN, MyCometG3, Digital Video, Digital Media, Media, Digital Music, Open Source, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2010-02-06
- Testers get alpha of next version of Silverlight for Linux
- The Mono team has made available a preview test build of Moonlight 3, the next version of Silverlight for Linux from Novell. Preview 1 is downloadable from the Mono site, as of February 3. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Mono, Novell Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Mono Team, Moonlight 3, Moonlight 2, .Net, Development Tools, Open Source, Linux, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2010-02-05
- Matt Asay's big break is a big one for open source
- Ubuntu is a wonderful dream, but a prosaic reality. It sells itself as the shining city on the hill, when it's really just a small attractive village. Matt Asay can change that. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Ubuntu, Open Source, Matt Asay, Matt, Food & Beverage, Operational Accounting, Manufacturing, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2010-02-05
- Is the Tea Party open source?
- The Internet lets political movements of all types rise quickly from the bottom-up. This is in contrast to the way government must act, which is from the top-down. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: John Robb, Robb, Tea Party Activist, Netroots, Absorption, Internet, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2010-02-05
- Visifire 3.0.3b1 (Mac)
- Visifire is a set of open source data visualization components - powered by Microsoft Silverlight. With Visifire you can create and embed visually stunning animated Silverlight Charts within minutes. Visifire is easy to use and independent of the server side technology. It can be used with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP,...
- Tags: Data Visualization, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Silverlight, Webyog Softworks, Visifire, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Databases, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2010-02-05
- Is mobile Firefox going to be too late?
- I read Dana's piece about Symbian possibly going open source too late with great interest. I've wondered the same thing about Firefox Mobile, which debuted on Jan 29. Like Symbian on the proprietary mobile OS front, Mozilla's Firefox has been the leading open source browser for...
- Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Mobile, Operating System, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Android 2.1, Web Browsers, Open Source, Internet, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2010-02-04
- Make-or-buy balance still unclear in 2011 Defense and Veteran budgets
- If EHR Way Ahead is using open source components and delivering something DoD and VA employees can manage and extend, it's a good thing. If this is going to be another Windows-Oracle set of promises, created and managed by outside contractors, that's something else entirely. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, U.S. Department Of Defense, VA, Open Source Component, Open Source, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2010-02-04
- Crossing the line to the Internet Generation
- If you look at the Internet's development and compare it to that of TV a generation ago, it's finally the 1960s. This is great news for open source. Its future is secure. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Open Source, TV, Torch, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2010-02-04
- Did Symbian go open source too late?
- This is the world Symbian's partners, on the whole, ignored as it was coming on. Why should they be trusted to lead now? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Open Source, Symbian Inc., Symbian Foundation, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2010-02-04
- Symbian OS makes early open source debut
- The Symbian Foundation is to make available the Symbian OS for smartphones available under open source license. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Operating System, Symbian Inc., Symbian Foundation, Symbian OS, Open Source, Mobile Operating Systems, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2010-02-04
- ESF Database Migration Toolkit Standard Edition 6.2.22 (Windows)
- The program transfers data across various database and file systems. It can directly connect to MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, FireBird/InterBase, Access, Excel, Visual Foxpro, SQLite, Paradox, Lotus, dBase, Text, and other formats, and transfer data (including Index, Primary Key, Foreign Key, BLOB, CLOB, and MEMO) between these...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Microsoft Windows, EasyFrom, Databases, Microsoft Excel, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Microsoft Office, Office Suites
- Software downloads 2010-02-04
- World's most popular smartphone OS, Symbian, is now 100% open and free
- There has been a rather cryptic countdown on Twitter from the Symbian Foundation and now we learn that the countdown was designed to alert folks that Symbian is now fully open source and 100% free. This happened four months ahead of schedule and we should soon start to see Symbian-powered...
- Tags: Operating System, Smart Phone, Symbian Inc., Open Source, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2010-02-03
- Linux developer explains Android kernel code removal
- Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Linux kernel developer, has posted a blog explaining the decision to excise Google's Android code from the kernel. by David Meyer ZDNet UK
- Tags: Developer, Kernel, Linux Developer, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Android, David Meyer ZDNet UK
- News items 2010-02-03
- Will China grab open source now?
- Once Chinese manufacturers realize that open source can give them independence, not only from Apple but from Google and every other foreign entity, China will embrace open source. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: China, Google Inc., Brand, Chromium, Open Source, Branding, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2010-02-03
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