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It's based on PHP 5, limiting its use by the majority of PHP developers who don't like/understand OO programming, or simply, are happy with PHP 4 thank you very much. But the audience seems to be enterprise developers that want to take adva
Palamida announced that it has enhanced it's IP Amplifier product with the addition of the GPL v3 analyzer functionality. The company has also created a comprehensive GPL v3 online educational resource repository, gpl3.palamida.com, to assist or
Open source is about new beginnings for me. While many write about the end of closed-source and the intellectual property racketeers, I’m more interested in the end of the beginning for the new model that will displace the intellectual property
Red Hat announced results for its Fiscal 1Q08 quarter ended May 31, 2007. Pretty solid results. Revenue rose 41% to $118.9 million from $84.0 million. The analyst consensus was $117.12 million. GAAP net income rose 17% to $16.2 million, or 8 cents a
Stuart Cohen, former CEO of OSDL launched a new company in May. The Collaborative Software Initiative offers a comprehensive set of services to take a project from the assessment phase through its lifecycle and beyond. The practice of collaboration
Seems that KISS is playing at the Cisco Networkers event. Someone hook me up. I will bore you with tales of open source and trade you a Mule T-shirt for an invite/ticket/whatever....
Computerworld has Marten Mickos on the hot seat about the growth of MySQL and what happens next. As always, Marten is insightful and rational. I am jealous that I am not as clear-headed. I am very passionate about open source. And I do believe that i
A few weeks ago Slashdot was abuzz with the question Does GPL v3 Alienate Developers? The question was partly driven by William Hurley's post that questioned the value of GPL v3 in an age where developers seek permissive licenses. I haven't
Solaris Cluster source code will be made available under Sun's own CDDL open-source license, not GPL
This CIA "family jewels" data dump is completely nuts. Top Ten Most Interesting "Family Jewels" Released by the CIA to the National Security Archive, June 26, 2007 1) Journalist surveillance - operation CELOTEX I-II (pp. 26-30) 2)