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Open-source, community-driven search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales could disrupt and reshape Google-dominated market
Looks like the co-operation between Intel and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative has come to a grinding halt with Intel's decision to quit the OLPC board. The OLPC is an open source software based laptop targeted at emerging markets with
Try a Java package that takes the pain out of HTML table creation and handling when using Velocity templates
Some of you may have seen this article in Discover Magazine by Jaron Lanier. I find it difficult to argue when someone challenges "OSS obvious truths" because doing so takes some degree of professional courage. Jaron writes: "Twenty-fi
My accounting prof liked to say that "cash is king". I believe him, and in 2008, I predict that cash (i.e. revenue and profit) will begin to matter a lot more to OSS vendors and their VCs/investors. I don't buy the "OSS is differe
Following up on the most underreported stories of the year, I thought I'd pick a few select blog entries as my top 10 stories of the year. (Or actually of the last six months of my blogging here at InfoWorld.) That's not to say these are th
My previous posting was about InfoWorld's underreported stories for the year. As I mentioned, we had quite an interesting email thread about other stories that were suggested. Items ranged from Microsoft's end-run on open standards, Microso
The editorial staff and bloggers at InfoWorld did some brainstorming in recent weeks to write up the top underreported stories in IT for the year. Although the topic is a bit of an oxymoron (if a tree falls in the forest, kind of thing...) I think it
2007's No. 6 most underreported tech story
It's old news now that longtime Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik is resigning the CEO position and has appointed the former COO from Delta Airlines Jim Whitehurst. However, I've long suspected that Szulik wanted out. I remember at one of the Red