March 16 Open Source News

OpenLogic pushes open-source scan service for M&As BusinessWeek By Chris Kanaracus OpenLogic, which provides support and auditing services for open-source software, announced a new offering on Monday aimed at customers ...

'Fastest broadband in EU' in election promise; Open source debated ZDNet (blog) The run up to the UK general election is spattered with political hot potatoes, debates and changes afoot, with a bust economy and a range of issues which ...

SXSW: Bug Labs Says Content Will Drive Open-Source Hardware Wired News That's the viewpoint of Peter Semmelhack, founder and CEO of Bug Labs, whose modular, open-source hardware company aims to fix that shortcoming by making it ...

Open source: Less profit, more fun InfoWorld It's a bad time to be an open source startup trying to survive on support revenue. But it's a great time for open innovation. Open source ain't what it used ...

Build your own smart grid device with new open source development kit ZDNet (blog) SuRF, which is priced at $149.95, comes with two boards and it builds on the Open Source Home Area Network (OSHAN) communications protocol; ...

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst to Open 2010 Open Source Business Conference with MarketWatch (press release) OSBC brings together open source vendors, customers, partners and community members to share strategies and hear the most current thinking on open source ...

Supercomputers run open source software Inquirer By David Neal ACCORDING TO Novell nine out of ten of the most powerful supercomputers in the world run open source software. The numbers come from the Top ...

Ex-Sun open source honcho: Sorry about that TCK license, Apache! Java World Among the many high-level Sun people leaving the merged Oracle-Sun conglomerate is Chief Open Source Officer Simon Pipps, who announced his departure on his ...

XML Co-Founder Joins Google As Developer Advocate ITProPortal Bray believes that he and Google have a lot in common, with 'Web-centric', 'Search' and 'Open Source' being some key similarities. ...

EnterpriseDB CEO Selected to Speak at Open Source Business Conference 2010 PR Newswire (press release) During his session, Boyajian will discuss the open source revolution currently underway in the $19 billion database industry and the resulting pressures ..