July 8 Open Source News

PostgreSQL Upgrades Open Source Database Performance Tools InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA By Charles Babcock The PostgreSQL open source database project has released version 8.4 with improved administration, monitoring, and SQL features. ...

Symbian Foundation Poised To Release OS Beta InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA By Marin Perez The Symbian Foundation will release a beta version of the open source Symbian within the next few weeks, according to executive David Wood. ...

Complaints against EU open source agenda may overlook a policy ... BetaNews - USA "We remain concerned that the policy framework suggested in the white paper seems to favor open source software over proprietary software to achieve more ...

4 Universities Move to Cooperative Support Program for Open Source ... Campus Technology - Chatsworth,CA,USA By Dian Schaffhauser The Cooperative Support Program provides member institutions with a predictable cost support structure for their open source ...

Will Microsoft promise split the open source movement ZDNet - USA Net Turns," Richard Stallman was promising that Microsoft would never, ever marry his open source daughter. Now Microsoft has raised the tension in the room ...

Lockheed Martin to Release Social Media Tool as Open Source Software PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA "We are excited to now share our investment back to the open source community to help other organizations meet their knowledge sharing challenges. ...

Shipping Of Smartphones With Open Source Operating Systems To ... TMCnet - USA By Calvin Azuri A recent report from Juniper Research (News - Alert) reveals that the number of Smartphones shipped with open source operating systems (OS) ...

AstriCon 2009 Showcases the Move of Open Source Asterisk® Into ... Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA Celebrating the tenth anniversary of Asterisk's release as an open source project, the conference will be rich with content for Asterisk software developers ...

Open source's double standard on government bias CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA by Matt Asay The open-source community has a long tradition of looking for and hounding away the very thought of Microsoft influence from government IT ...

Open Source on the Agenda Education Week News (subscription) - Bethesda,MD,USA A special thanks to Paul Hyland, the chief technology officer for edweek.org, for this guest blog post about open-source tech issues. Open-source technology ...