September 15 Open Source News

Open source loves profit ZDNet The biggest lie told about open source is that those who practice it hate making money, that they are anti-capitalist. (Picture from those dirty commies at ...

Oracle renews push into embedded open source software market SearchOracle.com By Ed Scannell, Site Editor Oracle redoubled its efforts in the $2 billion embeddable database market on Monday updating two members of its open -source ...

Apple Open-Sources Grand Central Dispatch TheAppleBlog On September 10 Apple released the user library component of Grand Central to the open source community. We previously discussed Grand Central Dispatch, ...

Sam Ramji, open-source guru, to leave Microsoft Seattle Post Intelligencer Following last week's news that Sam Ramji has joined the new CodePlex Foundation as its interim president, Microsoft announced that the open-source guru is ...

Steven Chu Suggests Open Source to Design Net-Zero Energy Buildings CleanTechnica How better tap into the hive mind than with an open-source software platform. He wants the DOE to provide advanced design tools for free or at very low cost ...

Microsoft and Open Source: Take 2 Redmond Channel Partner This is a Web site built by Microsoft where programmers can share and post hunks of open source code. Now CodePlex has evolved into a quasi-independent ...

Google File System II stalked by open-source elephant Register Cloudera is what you might call a Red Hat for Hadoop, the Apache-hosted open source platform based on the original Google File System (GFS), and mapreduce, ...

Microsoft, Oracle, and open source's double standard CNET News by Matt Asay Open-source advocates need to get their stories straight. Are we a big-tent movement, or a parochial club that is hell-bent on limiting ...

First Open Source GIS UK Conference Webcasts DirectionsMag.com By Open Source GIS UK Note: Linebreaks that you enter will be maintained and displayed in your message text. URL strings will be converted to HTML links. ...