January 8 Open Source News

Open-source acquisitions: What's the holdup? CNET News Acquisitions of open-source companies have been a big topic of conversation ever since Red Hat acquired JBoss in April 2006. Many of us in the software ...

Google open-source boss comes clean on Android Register Google open source guru Chris DiBona has acknowledged that the company's freewheeling approach to building a mobile operating system can cause a few ...

Open source in your car or an open source car SmartPlanet.com (blog) By Dana Blankenhorn | Jan 7, 2010 | Open source has a tough time with the car market because cars are expensive, and they're mostly not composed of software ...

Novell lose Open Source CTSO as Nat Friedman leaves The H Nat Friedman, co-founder of Ximian and Chief Technology and Strategy Officer for Open Source at Novell has announced in a blog posting that he has quit. ...

HIE deploys open-source interoperability software FierceEMR Open-source health IT company Mirth Corp., has an interoperability program called the Mirth Meaningful Use Exchange (Mirth MUx), and says the system now is ...

Happy Birthday, Chris Messina, And Enjoy Advocating The Open Web At Google Washington Post It's no secret that Google is a big proponent of open source technology and the open web (to a degree), and it's no secret that Chris Messina is too, ...

Asterisk - A Disruptive Force in IP Communications TMCnet By Erik Linask If you've been following the open source community at all, you will know the momentum that has grown in the space, largely supported by the ...

Philips Is Singing Songbird's Tune OStatic (blog) 07, 2010Comments (1) Once upon a time, getting the commercial sphere to embrace Open Source software was a task of Homeric proportion. ...

WANdisco Names Hyrum Wright to Lead Subversion Open Source Efforts Business Wire (press release) ... software for replication, scalability and high availability, today announced that Hyrum Wright has joined the company to lead its open source team. ...

Enterprise Web 2.0 ZDNet (blog) These last five years at Sun, I've been lucky: I live in the Open-Source and "Web 2.0" communities, and at the same time I've been given significant quality ...