October 21 Open Source News

MySQL co-founder questions viability of MySQL fork to protect users InfoWorld And I also believe that if, on the other hand, it becomes difficult or impossible for large companies to acquire open-source assets, then venture ...

Ingres to Highlight New Geospatial Technology Reuters Ingres Director of Development, Andrew Ross, to Speak at Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial 2009 Conference REDWOOD CITY, Calif. ...

LBNL and sensL collaborate on open-source "openPET" medical imaging program Laser Focus World Magazine This concept mimics the open source software movement which has revolutionised the software industry. "Our concept is that the openPET electronics serve the ...

Red Hat enjoys fruit of recession Register "In the past on the pure open source side there was just not enough for system integrators to see Red Hat as a strategic business to focus on, ...

Will Enterprises Look Towards Open Source for Their BI Needs? ebizQ Either Open Source BI or SaaS BI would be attractive to them. Open Source BI is even more attractive since they can make sure that all the data stays within ...

revolution Computing Raises $9 Million Washington Post revolution Computing, the "redhat" for the open source ?R? statistical computing language, has received $9 million in Series B funding from North Bridge ...

Software Groups Oppose Oracle Ownership Of mysql ChannelWeb By Joseph F. Kovar, channelweb A number of organizations supporting Open Source have sent an open letter to the Commissioner for Competition of the European ...

SpringSource Stirs Open Source into the VMware Mix eWeek "With SpringSource, VMware is embracing the open source community. VMware really cares about developer communities and abut open source," he added, ...

SSCI Wins $750000 Air Force SBIR Contract to Develop Open Source Navigation ... Reuters In order to encourage adoption by sensor manufacturers, the project is being developed in open source format, with code available for download at ...

Open Source Success Must Embrace Proprietary Features IPWatchdog.com As the open source movement continues to mature the industry is increasingly recognizing that truly free and purely open software does not provide a usable ...