December 15 Open Source News

Best Buy, Samsung, Westinghouse, and 11 more named in open source lawsuit Examiner.com AP Retail giants Samsung, Westinghouse, and Best Buy were named as some of the 14 companies that are being sued for copyright infringement by the Software ...

Thunderbird 3 opens French open source gap ZDNet (blog) It would be better if these were the Russians (although have you noticed the similarity in the flags) but the French have opened up an open source gap on ...

ERP Vendor Offers to Take Over MySQL PC World Nexedi's open-source ERP5 product is based on MySQL, which has enabled the vendor to support a number of storage platforms and use the MySQL Cluster ...

Open source: All about vendors? CNET News Gartner's consistently engaging Brian Prentice suggests this is already happening with open-source software. Vendors care about it because open source gives ...

The Open Source IP PBX: A Growing Trend TMCnet But beyond that, the open source community – which of course, has been popularized largely through the growth of the ten-year-old Asterisk platform – has ...

From the White House to (no kidding) Microsoft, open source shined in '09 NetworkWorld.com By John Fontana , Network World , 12/14/2009 For open source and Linux, 2009 has been another year of big and surprising milestones, from the White House ...

China to nurture open source software development istockAnalyst.com (press release) 15, 2009 (Xinhua News Agency) -- China intends to nurture the development of open source software in 2011-2015, according to the Ministry of Science and ...

Flat World Knowledge Adds Another $2.5 Million For Open-Source Textbooks paidContent.org Open-source textbook firm Flat World Knowledge has raised an additional $2.5 million in funding. The company said back in March that it had raised $8 ...

The case in favor of the open source enterprise database BetaNews By Ed Boyajian and Larry Alston, LinuxInsider | Published December 14, 2009, 12:34 PM Linux and open source middleware JBoss has made its mark in the ...