December 11 Open Source News

IBM, Oracle, Open Source: Mixed Motives Abound InformationWeek (blog) He said Oracle should do more to outline how it would maintain the open-source aspect of MySQL's software, and he expected reassurances in this area to ...

Microsoft's New Problem: The French Military Microsoft Watch Specifically, the French Ministry of Defense made the executive decision to switch to Mozilla Thunderbird, an open-source e-mail platform, from Microsoft ...

Open source bugs fixed quicker than commercial software V3.co.uk Open-source code is more prone to severe flaws than commercial software, but bugs get fixed more quickly, according to revealing new research from ...

Gouge Mac OS X Open Source Programming Gosh!TV TV) 12/10/2009 – In this quick tutorial (or "gouge") we'll look at how to set up Mac OS X to build free open source Linux software such as CinePaint. ...

Open Source Efforts No Longer an "Obscure Sideshow of Geeks" TMC Net By Paula Bernier (News - Alert) It's been 10 years since Asterisk's release as an open source project, and in just a decade it's moved into the mainstream ...

Gluster adds data storage management, virtual server support to open-source ... Search Storage Gluster came out of stealth in 2007 with GlusterFS, a scale-out file system for clustered NAS based on open-source code but reengineered "from the ground up ...

Android's unintentional beneficiary: Funambol CNET News It's also extremely good news for Funambol, the open-source mobile cloud sync company. Even as the mobile telcos seek winning alternatives to the ...

10 years gone: The VA Linux Systems IPO CNET News We were in the middle of the open-source pixie dust revolution, when many flagging companies jumped on the open-source bandwagon in a desperate attempt to ...

Travel industry 'trench warfare' turns Farelogix open source experiment into a dud Tnooz (blog) In March, with much hope, Farelogix, the travel tech company and distributor, began an open source experiment and freely made available to anyone the source ...