March 14 Open Source News

Mario Goes Open-Source with Arduino PC Magazine by David Murphy The open-source Arduino electronics platform has received a ton of attention from the hardware enthusiast community. ...

Open Source ERP Software Provider xTuple Announces Winner of its "haxTuple ... SYS-CON Media (press release) For our part, xTuple is redoubling its commitment to working with the community to maintain and continue to improve the world's most advanced open source ...

An open answer to Office The Hindu The decade-old OpenOffice was the Free and Open Source riposte to Microsoft's Office that has entrenched itself in the office productivity suite segment. ...

Think local, go 'open' The Hindu Open source technologies are making significant inroads in governments around the world, avers Gopi Ganapathy, President & CEO, Essentia, ...

The Coffee Party Uses Drupal Katonda (blog) For those who don't know what Drupal is, "Drupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU ...

Virtual reality pioneer turns against Web 2.0 culture Toronto Star Lanier, a former proponent of the open-source model of freely sharing intellectual property, has reversed course as the author of a contentious new book, ...

Microsoft's Windows and Google's Linux (Android), the Mobile Race Softpedia It's also extremely easy to credit the underlying Linux OS and open source model for the success of Android. "42.7 million people in the US owned ...

Digg Rolls Out NoSQL Solution to Replace MySQL Softpedia Cassandra was chosen from other open-source NoSQL solutions, including CouchDB and MongoDB. John Quinn, VP of Engineering at Digg, said on the company's ...

SCALE 8x: Color management for everyone LXer (press release) On Sunday at SCALE 8x, Inkscape developer Jon Cruz presented a talk entitled "Why Color Management matters to Open Source and to You," putting the need for ..