Soft sell for open source apps
Enterprise software vendors that use open source business models may be few and far between, but they are out there. I recently spoke to Peter Schroer, president and founder of Aras, about his…
Sun attacks Linux with Solaris upgrades, support
Sun Microsystems Inc. is adding support services for its Solaris operating system on x86 platforms in a bid to compete with burgeoning Linux distributions.
Sun is clearly taking aim at…
Open source is good for the economy
Europe's lawmakers should "correct" policies that "implicitly or explicitly" favour the use of proprietary software, according to a newly published report from the European Commission (EC).
…DRM, GPLv3 just 'hot air': Linus Torvalds
Digital rights management and the General Public License cause a lot of 'hot air' to be exchanged but they are not a 'big deal', according to the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds.
DRM,…
Using open source as a marketing ploy
This morning News.com is running an article (Taking the plunge into open source) on how proprietary software companies are leveraging (bastardizing?) open source practices for some of their new…
Fluendo announces Windows Media and MPEG codec support for GNU/Linux
Fluendo, leader in GNU/Linux and Unix multimedia solutions, is expanding its offerings with the general availability of a wide range of codecs for the GNU/Linux and Solaris desktop and server…
Drupal 5.0 Released
After 8 months of development the Drupal project is ready to release Drupal 5.0 to the world. Today is also Drupal's 6th birthday, so the timing could not be more perfect. Drupal 4.0 was released…
The Eternal Windows-Linux Battle: No Winner, Just Duopoly
“Vista is the best $6 billion I have ever spent” said Bill Gates at this year’s CES. Is that enough for Microsoft to finally defeat the open source threat? Definitely NOT.
More than 10,000…
Open Source software takes on VMware
InnoTek today released VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), marking an important milestone in the development of PC virtualization software. VirtualBox OSE is the first professional PC…
Taking the plunge into open source
More software companies are finding that the best way to make money with software is to give it away, cherry-picking open-source software practices for commercial gain.
On Monday, a small…