Red Hat chides Oracle over Linux
Oracle's venture into the Linux market was called "a bit disingenuous" by a Red Hat executive speaking at the MySQL Conference & Expo on Tuesday.
The executive, Michael Evans, Red Hat…
Mainsoft Announces Winners of 'Race to Linux 2.0'
Mainsoft announced the winners of the "Race to Linux 2.0." Jointly sponsored by Mainsoft, IBM, and Novell, the Race to Linux 2.0 challenged .NET developers to take three open-source ASP.NET 2.0…
Linux 2.6.21 Released
If the goal for 2.6.20 was to be a stable release (and it was), the goal for 2.6.21 is to have just survived the big timer-related changes and some of the other surprises (just as an example: we…
That Linux thing - where’s the vision?
I get asked, fairly often, why I'm down on Linux. I'm not - I'm like a guy with three kids: love all of them, but find myself spending more time with one than the other two - hey, I even have the…
Open Source And Money
There seems to be some activity this week around earnings through open source. First there is Hugh Macleod’s question about finding billionaires in open source. There were some replies, but the…
And Now … Life After GPLv3
"Eben Moglen, general counsel and board member of the FSF and chairman of the SFLC, has announced on his blog that he will be resigning from his leadership position with the FSF now that GPLv3…
eMusic CEO To Keynote Red Hat Summit 2007
Red Hat announced that the President and CEO of eMusic, David Pakman, will keynote at the third annual Red Hat Summit taking place May 9-11, 2007 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina. Pakman…
CEO of MySQL AB Celebrates “The Disruptive Spirit of the Dolphin”
MySQL AB’s CEO Marten Mickos kicked off the opening day of the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo this morning with a keynote exploring the phenomenal momentum of open source software as both a…
Debian Project participates in Google's Summer of Code
The Debian project is proud that it has been accepted by Google as a mentor organization for this year's Summer of Code program, with nine tasks in total. Google will fund the students mentioned…
Interview with Mark Shuttleworth: The Business Ecology of Ubuntu
OpenBusiness took the opportunity at MiniBar to interview Mark Shuttleworth and he took us on a space ride through the Ubuntu galaxy Open Source land. Using our new, sophisticated Edirol R-09 MP3…