September 9 Open Source News

The Top 10 Reasons for Choosing Open Source Data Integration Computerworld To help you evaluate various solutions and technologies available on the market, and to compare open source data integration technology with other ...

VMware Releases vCloud API Under Open Source License SYS-CON Media For anyone interested, VMware has launched their Vcloud API specification. They describe their new "open" vCloud API as an interface for providing and ...

Open Source Group Buys Microsoft Patents to Ward Off Patent Trolls PC World The move allows OIN to retain legal rights to the patents and license them freely to the open source community, thereby ensuring that less-scrupulous buyers ...

Pentaho Named Repeat Winner for Best Open Source BI Suite in ... SYS-CON Media Specifically, Pentaho won the "Best Open Source BI" award for the second year in a row. Awarded by InfoWorld's editorial and test center staff, the Bossie's ...

Merchant Warehouse Releases Free Payment Module for Open Source ... Emediawire (press release) Developed as an Open Source solution for the ecommerce marketplace, Magento is easy to use and simple to customize, allowing developers to create plug-ins ...

A cloudy future for open-source applications CNET News by Matt Asay The best open-source projects have little problem with adoption. Their problem, increasingly, centers on monetization of their popularity. ...

Google Android: Mobile open source has finally arrived CNET News Sure, we've had mobile open-source companies for years. I was part of one of the first: Lineo, an embedded Linux vendor that distributed an optimized Linux ...

IBM Claims Software Patents Promoted Open Source Software? Techdirt Patent protection has promoted the free sharing of source code on a patentee's terms--which has fueled the explosive growth of open source software ...

Sourcefire Named to InfoWorld's Open Source Hall of Fame Business Wire (press release) The list recognizes "the greatest open source software projects of all time" that have established dominant market positions and proven essential in ...