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Jon Williams, CTO at Kaplan Test Prep co-founder of the New York CTO club, and InfoWorld blogger, wrote something very interesting: "....Matt Asay, OSBC organizer and also an open source vendor. He asked me the following:- "If an open sourc
This week at the CTIA conference in Vegas, Nokia showed off their next generation N810 Internet tablet now with WiMax access, giving even higher speed browsing than Wi-Fi enables. This is the 3rd (or 3 1/2?) iteration of the Nokia tablet and it shows
Eclipse Foundation leaders debate claims of sprawl and bloat
I've used the term "Right Sizing Your Infrastructure" to describe one reason that OSS penetration grew and continues to grow. Looking back 5 years at the enterprise middleware market, most vendors offered ~3 different editions of their
Intel's drive to put Linux on mobile Internet devices gains support as Adobe and RealNetworks will offer AIR and RealPlayer for handhelds that use the open source OS
In the grand tradition of April Fool's stunts at Sun, the MySQL team decided to drape the Sun Menlo Park campus with inflatable pink and blue MySQL Dolphins! Marketing communications guru Steve Curry came up with the idea and we assembled a crac
I don't know if I'm any more qualified to comment on the state of open source than anyone else out there, but I did put some commentary together for InfoWorld's open source roundtable article series last week. Those comments got spread
If the trend continues, the the GNU General Public License Version 3 will be used by 5,000 open source projects by the end of the year, blog reports
The MySQL Workbench team has released the latest Release Candidate 5.0.15 of their new DBMS modeling tool. This includes quite a few recent bug fixes and it's now rapidly approaching the GA status. The team continues on to fix all the minor nits
I want to thank Matt Aslett & The 451 Group for being brave enough to publish this report on the impact of open source databases on the DB market. An excerpt: "One of the key findings is that open source software has had a superficial im