September 25 Open Source News

Secrecy Is A Stupid Way To Sell Software Security bMighty.com It makes my day when someone out to "expose" the flaws in open-source software ends up doing exactly the opposite. In a recent ZDnet interview, an executive ...

Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation leader soaks in stinging critique Computerworld The CodePlex Foundation's aim is to get open source and proprietary software companies working together. Updegrove, a lawyer, noted expert on standards, ...

Microsoft WebsiteSpark tries to hit open source, mostly misses CNET News Open-source alternatives do neither. No upfront cost...but what about the future? The first constraint isn't a big deal. Many aspiring Googles have fewer ...

Open source profits, proprietary fails Computerworld While businesses like Microsoft and Sun are seeing their profits and growth decline, pure open-source play companies like Red Hat are actually gaining ...

Study: Open source software is improving Heise Online The code analysis tools vendor, Coverity, has released the 2009 edition of the Coverity Scan Open Source Report[icon:pdf]. The survey, which was originally ...

Why BI Consultants Don't Get Open Source BI ebizQ By David Linthicum on September 24, 2009 4:43 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes "Business intelligence and open source are both pretty hot topics in the enterprise software ...

Open Source Moves Beyond Software The Nillabyte Perspective (blog) In many ways, open source is still fairly unexplored. Successful software projects such as Firefox, VLC media player, and even the growing popularity of ...

Marketing online: keep it open source The Australian Other small businesses, most preferring to stay anonymous, have been charged not only for free open source content management systems but free plug-ins that ...

The state of open source integrity is pretty good ZDNet (blog) One reason I went off on Skye calling BIND "legacy freeware" yesterday is because I assume open source gets better with age, and hard work. ...

Open source API to aid cloud-hopping businesses Silicon.com By silicon.com IBM and Microsoft have pledged support for the creation of an open source API that aims to simplify the process of switching cloud providers ...