December 8 Open Source News

Open Source In A Parallel Universe InformationWeek Contributions to an open source project by a major software player, more often than not, are done for the benefit of the person making the contribution. ...

451 Group Research Explains How Oracle / Sun Open Source Will Work Seeking Alpha (blog) The EU is supposedly worried that the dreadful "proprietary" software supplier Oracle will squelch continued use and development of the sort-of-open-source ...

Why Carriers Love Open-source/Openness infoSync World By Sindre Lia, 7 December 2009 pcmag's Sascha Segan recently aired his opinion on why open-source solutions will not succeed in the US Of course, ...

What's Coming for Open Source in 2010 OStatic (blog) This past year was a big one for open source. Just think, back in March, it wasn't clear whether Google's open source Android platform had any future at all ...

Open Source CRM Provider Releases Sugar 5.5 System TMCnet "The quality and depth of Sugar 5.5 demonstrates the power of the open source business model and advances SugarCRM's mission of providing the most open, ...

NNDA gives 'open source' economic development system a try Northern Nevada Business Weekly Mike Skaggs, who heads the Nevada Commission on Economic Development staff, has dubbed nnda's approach as "open-source economic development. ...

The Coming Age of Open Source Technology The Epoch Times By Jose Rivera A screen displays the logo of the open-source web browser Firefox on July 31, 2009, in London, as the software edges towards it's billionth ...

Zemlin: 'Industry transformation depends on Linux' (Q&A) CNET News Is this good for open source? Zemlin: Industry consolidation is not something that will stop open source. Open-source licenses and particularly the GPL ...

AdMob Announces New Open Source SDK for Palm SYS-CON Media (press release) It has launched a new open source SDK to integrate its CPC text ads and CPM banner ads on Palm Pre and Pixi. It is already working with several developers ...