December 23 Open Source News

Google: We're open and closed at the same time TG Daily Rosenberg says: "Not all Google products are open source. Our goal is to keep the internet open." Google will not open source the main source of its revenue ...

Ford goes open source, gets students to develop phone apps for Sync Autoblog (blog) by Jonny Lieberman (RSS feed) on Dec 22nd 2009 at 3:30PM Before we get into the nitty and/or gritty of what Ford is up to with their pending Sync app store, ...

Subscriptions Boost Red Hat Revenue PC World Open-source enterprise software vendor Red Hat on Tuesday reported fiscal third-quarter revenue up 18 percent from the same quarter last year. ...

The BBC's digital rights plans will wreak havoc on open source software guardian.co.uk This is where the conflict with free/open source software arises. Free/open source software, such as the GNU/Linux operating system that runs many set-top ...

ERP in 2009: Looking back, looking ahead Computerworld There are at least 10 open-source products in the market, with some more mature than others. Open-source ERP vendors typically provide a version at no cost, ...

Google's Open-Source Talk Is Empty Posturing The Business Insider Google talks a lot about openness and their commitment to open source software. What they are really doing is practicing a classic business strategy known ...

Sun Reductions Will Hit Open ... InternetNews.com That includes many in the company's open source efforts. By Andy Patrizio: More stories by this author: In late November, many thousands of Sun Microsystems ...

Survey Looks at Open Source Data Integration Tools IT Business Edge (blog) By date: Open source data integration tools are more widely adopted than open source Business Intelligence tools – despite the fact open source BI has been ...

Hackers Hit OpenX Ad Server in Adobe Attack PC World By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service Hackers have exploited flaws in a popular open-source advertising software to place malicious code on advertisements on ...