January 20 Open Source News

Open Source in Education Wall Street Journal We now use OpenOffice. org, Ubuntu Linux, Google docs and many other open source products on most of the systems. The students love it as they can get ...

Could (and should) Firefox and Chrome converge into a single browser? ZDNet (blog) Ovum's open-source research director, Laurent Lachal, is one such person who thinks this is likely. "Eventually, Chrome and Firefox could converge, ...

Open-Source JavaScript Flash Player (HTML5/SVG) Slashdot gbutler69 writes "Someone has gone and done it. Tobias Schneider has created a Flash player written in JavaScript targeting SVG/HTML5-capable browsers. ...

A Look Behind the Scenes at Social Networking Sites HTML Goodies Let's take a look at how social networks handle millions of users and even more updates using open-source software and web servers--lots and lots of web ...

MOSS Gives Medical Data-Sharing a Dose of Open Source TechNewsWorld By Katherine Noyes Misys Open Source Software says its Connect Exchange application was successfully tested at the Chicago IHE Connectathon, paving the way ...

Technologies Announces SHARKFEST '10 Wireshark Developers and Users Gather Plain Dealer SHARKFEST is an annual training event instantiated in 2007 with the purpose of sharing knowledge between the global Wireshark and open source development ...

Black Duck Software Names Open Source Rookies of 2009 SYS-CON Media (press release) ... clinical health care community, open source projects have the answer to an increasing range of development challenges, according to Black Duck Software, ...

Marc Fleury, JBoss founder, critical of Save MySQL campaign The H Marc Fleury, founder and former head of JBoss, has criticised Monty Widenius's "Save MySQL" campaign saying it makes open source acquisitions "dicey and ...