February 3 Open Source News

Which open-source vendors can afford the cloud? CNET by Matt Asay Cost and quality are two driving factors for open source's role as the bedrock for public cloud computing. Google, Amazon, and other public ...

INSIDE Contactless Releases Open-Source NFC Protocol Stack Business Wire (press release) "We congratulate INSIDE Contactless for their contribution to the open source movement." "Our decision to release Open NFC under the Apache license ...

AMD releases open source Evergreen drivers Inquirer By Ed Berridge THE GRAPHICS SIDE of chip firm AMD has finally gotten around to releasing open source drivers for its ATI Radeon HD 5000 "Evergreen" family ...

VivoWare to Open Source VivoSocial for Custom Social Networks PR.com (press release) The open source VivoSocial SDK and documentation will be available under the MIT License. Available since January 2010, the VivoSocial modules includes the ...

For government open source is a make-or-buy decision ZDNet (blog) I did several stories at ZDNet Healthcare about efforts by private contractors to destroy the VA's open source VistA system — starving it of funds, ...

Squiz Breakfast Seminar: Open Source CMS Solutions for Higher Education CMSWire MySource Matrix, Squiz's Open Source CMS, is a perfect solution for Higher Education and, as such, we have a great number of clients in this sector. ...

NFC Chip Maker Goes Open Source American Banker (subscription) By Will Wade The NFC chip maker Inside Contactless is expected to announce today that it is making an open source version of its programming interface ...

Informatica, Talend Offer Different Paths To Master Data Management ChannelWeb Earlier in the week Talend debuted its own open-source MDM software to complement its open-source data integration and data quality management software. ...

MySQL Founder Monty Widenius On What to Expect Next OStatic (blog) Oracle will probably keep around MySQL for a couple of reasons: 1) as a limited free (not necessarily open source) entry level database for people to use ..