January 4 Open Source News

Open-source BI going mainstream, Gartner says Computerworld By Mitch Betts Computerworld - Adoption of open-source business intelligence software is doubling every year because the products are viewed as "good ...

Microsoft pricing, mobile, support needs new song and dance NetworkWorld.com Today's Microsoft is searching for its next identity in an upside down, open source, cloud-centric world, with competitive threats coming from every ...

Spain pays 12m Euros to Telefonica to maintain open source web site iTWire by David M Williams Who said there isn't money to be made in open source? The Spanish government has awarded a 12m Euro contract to Telefonica to maintain ...

In Allowing Ad Blockers, a Test for Google New York Times Google's extensions mimic the "add-on" system that has flourished on the open-source Firefox browser. As it happens, two 28-year-olds, Michael Gundlach, ...

Knowledge for rent: More stores offering college textbooks on loan Dallas Morning News "We think that open-source textbooks are the ultimate solution," said Nicole Allen, textbook advocate for the Student Public Interest Research Groups, ...

Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales and Open Sourcing in 2010 BNET ... launching Wikipedia nearly a decade ago is refining the free, open source encyclopedia even as it is in the grip of its devoted users and contributors. ..

2009: A Linux year in review Builder AU Open source technologies used with cloud providers like Amazon EC2 have become stronger. Other things of interest this year have been the proposed ...

'Save MySQL from Oracle' Petition Delivered to 3 Antitrust Regulators SYS-CON Media (press release) MySQL creator Monty Widenius' petition to stop Oracle from getting the MySQL open source database along with Sun Microsystems collected more than 14000 ...