September 30 Open Source News

Portland Plans to Become Open Source Mecca DaniWeb (blog) In its ongoing effort to become the coolest city in the US, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, is going to attempt tomorrow night to make it an "open source ...

Google to Android Developers — It's Not All Open Source jkOnTheRun The open source community has been watching the wrestling match between Google and Cyanogen, open source developer Steve Kondik, with rapt attention. ...

Funambol: open source mobile cloud sync (with contest!) CrunchGear (blog) Enter Funambol, and their open source mobile cloud sync. "Mobile cloud sync" aims to be an independent solution to the walled garden problem of smartphones. ... IDC: Organisations adopt open source to reduce expenses Computerworld Many Indonesian companies (34.5 per cent) intend to deploy new open source customer relationship management (CRM) applications over the next 18 months. ... What does advertising say about open source? CNET News It's therefore interesting to glean open-source values from the advertisements that surround and promote it. Home building - Live in a planned (and canned) ... The Myth of Crowdsourcing Forbes For the past 10 years, the buzz around open source has created a similar false impression. The notion of crowds creating solutions appeals to our desire to ... Talend Acquires Master Data Management Firm InformationWeek The data integration supplier will convert Amalto's assets into open source code for master data management. By Charles Babcock Talend, supplier of open ... Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall? Silicon.com By Nick Heath The UK government may have been slow to adopt open source software but there are signs that the tide may be turning. ... EU's IT security agency bases new website on open source — The European Network and information Security Agency (Enisa) published its new website early last week. The site is built using the open source content management system Plone and the open source Python application server Zope.