March 20 Open Source News

Ex-MySQL chief Marten Mickos lands new CEO job BusinessWeek By James Niccolai Marten Mickos, the longtime CEO of MySQL who eventually sold the open-source database company to Sun Microsystems for US$1 billion, ...

Google's Open-Source TV: Coming soon to a set near you NetworkWorld.com If it goes the open-source route it's said to be headed in, Hi-Def reports, "That means that anyone who wants to put Google TV into their set-top box, ...

Wikipedia To Support Theora Open Source Video Codec HTML Goodies Theora is an open source video codec which is to be incorporated into the HTML5 specification via a video tag. The Open Video Alliance is behind the ...

Comcast Uses Open Source for IPv6 Deployment InternetNews.com That's where the new open source Address Family Transition Router (AFTR) software comes into play. AFTR is an open source effort led by Comcast and the ...

Purses open source of income for recession victim Manteca Bulletin By Jason Campbell As a victim of the Great Recession, Jessica Foster quickly came up with the idea to find something that people were still going to buy in ...

Open-source innovation: A matter of price? CNET This same phenomenon is driving open source into consumer electronics, enterprise computing, and everywhere else: it's often a much simpler solution (one ...

GoAhead Software Shifts To Open Source, Buys Firm Northwest innovation Bellevue-based GoAhead Software, a developer of embedded middleware software, said today that it is shifting to an open source software model. ...

Linux and Open Source ZDNet (blog) Open source has made its third big move on Wall Street with Bloomberg's decision to open source its proprietary stock identifiers alongside NYSE-Euronext ...

The New Open Source Business Model Still Relies on Closed Source LinuxPlanet Over the last couple of years a number of different open source business strategies have evolved. According to the 451 Group, it's an evolution that ..