November 14 Open Source News

Microsoft 'Sudo' Patent No Danger To Unix InformationWeek This apparent similarity has led some in the open source community, cognizant of Microsoft's past hostility toward open source software, to ask whether the ...

Nicaragua Creates Innovative Agricultural Information System With Open Source Slashdot It is now also the Latin American country with the most capable web-based information system for agriculture, thanks to open source software. ... Open-source tools could make it easier to build a hybrid cloud GCN.com By Joab Jackson Government agencies interested in building out privately-run internal clouds, will find that there are a growing number of open-source tools ... Intelestream and GrinMark Partner to Provide Microsoft Office Addin for Open ... PRLog.Org (press release) "We recommend GrinMark's Microsoft Office Addin because it is affordable and integrates the entire suite of MS Office applications with the open source ... Oracle Upgrades its Open Source Database SYS-CON Media (press release) By Maureen O'Gara Oracle, the company that the European Commission thinks can't be trusted with an open source database, trotted out Berkeley DB Java ... Communities Vs. Teams: Open Source Needs Both InformationWeek Look at all the major open source success stories, from the Linux kernel on out: all of them needed a strongly organized core development team to get where ...