February 20 Open Source News

Linux and Open Source ZDNet (blog) It will once again be a "platinum sponsor" at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco next month and its National Technology Officer for the US ...

Opera cuts cord on first open-source baby Register Opera has freed its first open source project, moving code for its Dragonfly debug tool onto the popular BitBucket hosting service. ...

Open source - the once and future dream Register For some, Oracle's $5.6bn purchase of Sun Microsystems was good news for open source. After all, a mega tech vendor has acquired a hugely popular ...

Linux and Open Source Software at the center of security ZDNet UK (blog) Late last fall, the US Department of Defense issued a memorandum regarding the use of open source software. In this memorandum, many points about open ...

The Model Train Software Brouhaha Ends: Open Source Wins OStatic (blog) Katzer stirred up some seminal open source issues. We first reported on the dust-up all the way back in August of 2008, noting that the dispute centered ..

Diverse group of Chinese hackers wrote code in attacks on Google, US companies Washington Post "They're out in the open with it, passing the code back and forth to one another on open source hacker forums," in some cases with their "hacker handles" ...

Open Source Maps Are Helping the World Bank Save Lives in Haiti Fast Company BY Anya Kamenetz Fri Feb 19, 2010 The humanitarian relief effort underway in Haiti is proving the true potential of open source map building. ...

Zenoss Announces Free Network Monitoring Training Linux PR (press release) ... corporate sponsor of the award winning open source network monitoring project Zenoss Core, will host Zenoss Community Day on February 19th. ...

Investment firm manages business rules with open source IDG We are seeing further momentum of JBoss Enterprise BRMS as the enterprise continues to drive innovation through open source middleware," said Pierre Fricke, ...

Rhomobile upgrades smarpthone dev platform San Francisco Chronicle (02-19) 17:10 PST -- Rhomobile unveiled this week an upgrade to Rhodes, its open source framework for building native applications for multiple smartphone ..