October 2 Open Source News

Nominum on the back foot over open source attacks Register By John Leyden • Get more from this author Commercial DNS software firm Nominum has responded to the backlash against its criticism of open source ...

Web GUI hides number-crunching open source elephant Register Hadoop World Cloudera - the startup that commercialized the Google-like number crunching of the open source Hadoop project - has unveiled the first ...

British Telecom picks Jaspersoft for analytics CNET News by Dave Rosenberg If you need further proof that open-source applications are ready for prime time, take today's news from open-source business intelligence ...

Don't confuse open source with open standards InfoWorld [ Stay up to speed with the open source community via InfoWorld's Technology: Open Source newsletter. ] Tiemann goes on to suggest that the cost of exit for ...

Zmanda Does Cloud Storage for Less with Open Source Enterprise Storage Forum Zmanda uses open source-based software and Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Simple Storage Service (S3) to best EMC's MozyPro and Symantec on price. ...

Open source groups to merge ZDNet ... the two organizations will provide a "global platform for supporting research, development, distribution, and adoption of open source software."

Open Solutions Alliance folds into new open source group InternetNews.com By Sean Michael Kerner on October 1, 2009 12:18 PM Back in February of 2007, I wrote about a new open source group called the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) ...

Oracle and MySQL: It's all about Microsoft CNET News by Matt Asay Oracle is determined to keep MySQL if it acquires Sun, but the reason likely has little to do with open source and everything to do with ...

OCTO goes open source with iPhone app Greater Greater Washington Not only did DC's OCTO create an iPhone application showing Circulator information, but they're going to release the source code for the app later this week ... Open Source Government: San Francisco City App Store - PSFK The City of San Francisco recently opened DataSF.org, a website to help improve government transparency, and increase citizen access to city data. Red Hat News | One Small Leap for Open Source, One Giant Leap for ... By Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO The high court's decision on patentable subject matter is of huge importance to the future of software development, including open source. The Court's ruling on Bilski could clarify the law and lessen the risks that software innovation ... Open Source Software Can Save India $2 BNyearAt least | Open ... According to a new article in the Business Standard Open Source software can save India $2 BN per year Based on my experiences and discussions with Indian ...