January 12 Open Source News

Government of Jordan Selects Ingres to Drive Open Source Adoption Across the ... SYS-CON Media (press release) Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of the New Economics of IT, and the Government of Jordan announced today ...

Open Source Meets Cloud Computing Information Week (blog) The US government is increasingly using open source software in its IT infrastructure. Separately, the feds are adopting cloud computing. ...

The open source impulse goes beyond software ZDNet (blog) Open source provides a process in which this impulse can be managed. The fact that this is also a transforming business model is a bonus. ...

California Warms Up to Open Source Software in Government OStatic (blog) 11, 2010Comments (0) The ever-progressive State of California has publicly come out in favor of open source as a viable software option for its governemnt. ...

Writing iPhone apps using open-source software PC Pro From the earliest web apps to the current native applications, there has been open-source software available to help build them. There are complete web app ...

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies Working Knowledge Open source and proprietary software development used to be competing strategies. Now software firms are experimenting with strategies that mix the two ...

Wheeler: California: Open Source Software is Okay! LWN.net David A. Wheeler looks at California's recent declaration that the use of open source software is an "acceptable practice" for the state government. ...

Report: VMware to Buy Yahoo's Zimbra Red Herring Sunnyvale, California, Yahoo is expected to unveil the deal to sell the open-source email company to the virtualization software maker for a price above ...