Wednesday, January 06, 2010

January 6 Open Source News

Apple ceding open-source app market to Google?
CNET News
by Matt Asay Whether you're an open-source advocate or not, you likely run open-source applications on your laptop or desktop. ...
2010 resolutions: Open-source, social media, representation and surviving surgery
ZDNet (blog)
With this, my resolutions for this year are as follows: People seem to forget that Firefox is open source. They see it as a browser and probably don't even ...
Mr Bean hacks Spanish EU open source web site
iTWire
This was remarkable in itself because the site has been built on top of the open source OpenCMS content management system, proving that an awful lot of ...
OpenClinica Global Conference to Bring Together Global Community for Open ...
PR Web (press release)
The event marks the increasing popularity of open source software (OSS) in clinical trial electronic data capture and clinical data management. ...
Leave Virginia Alone: On Open-source and Proprietary Threats
GigaOm (blog)
5, 2010, 5:00pm 2 Comments While it used to be that the term "open source" conjured up socially lost Linux cave-dwellers, in recent years, open source has ...
Open source Songbird to begin shipping with millions of MP3 players
Downloadsquad (blog)
The news is a major win for Songbird and open source software in general. It's also the kind of distribution deal that you don't often hear about for a ...
Open Source BI vs Closed Source BI
CIO
As many of you may have noticed, Open Source software solutions have been making major waves in the Business Intelligence community as of late. ...
VMware Looking To Buy Zimbra From Yahoo?
ChannelWeb
Zimbra is the developer of the open source Zimbra Collaboration Suite, which includes applications to coordinate, manage, and share e-mails from multiple ...
Google's mobile hopes go beyond Nexus One
CNET News
... a period of years by emphasizing open phones with open application stores sold through a variety of channels running an open-source operating system. ...
Free Alternatives to Microsoft Office -- The (Don't Have To) Buyers Guide
NotebookReview.com
By Jay Garmon From open-source software to Web-based applications, there are so many free alternatives to Microsoft Office it's a wonder anyone pays ...

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