October 29 Open Source News

Open source advocate calls for Microsoft version of Linux Computerworld A lot of open source advocates like to rage against the machine at Microsoft, but when a former Microsoft Research employee says that Windows 7 won't stop ...

DOD open-sources more than 1M lines of code Computerworld By Patrick Thibodeau Computerworld - The US Department of Defense is not only encouraging use of open source applications, it recently open-sourced an ...

Tasktop Collaborates With Microsoft to Enhance Eclipse for Windows 7 Reuters Creator of Eclipse Mylyn and Tasktop Pro to integrate new functionality of Windows 7 with leading open source development platform VANCOUVER, ...

Google Sued Over Patents On Open Source Code Techdirt First, he claims that this lawsuit suggests Google's "open-source Chrome browser isn't so open source after all." Huh? I've read that sentence over and over ...

Why open clouds are more important than open phones CNET News Open-source software plays an important role in ensuring user choice, but it's not the sum total of the freedom/choice equation. It's just one factor. ...

EnterpriseDB, Postgres Maker, Raises $19 Million InformationWeek By Charles Babcock EnterpriseDB, the company with Postgres Plus, a commercial database system based on open source PostgreSQL, has finished a third round of ...

Defense CIO Touts Benefits Of Open Source InformationWeek Deputy CIO David Wennergren points to reliability, security, and lower TCO as among the potential benefits of using open source in the US military. ...

Open Source Zenoss Core Project Delivers Cloud Monitoring and Community-Led ... Reuters This latest version of the open source monitoring and systems management project includes several new features and innovations targeted at managing ...