March 23 Open Source News

Former MySQL Chief Lands at Eucalyptus New York Times (blog) Marten Mickos, the former chief executive of MySQL, will soon be named the chief executive of Eucalyptus, another open-source software maker. ...

TurboHercules SAS Files Formal Complaint against IBM with the European ... MarketWatch (press release) TurboHercules' complaint alleges that IBM is preventing customers from using Hercules --- an open-source mainframe emulator developed in Europe and ...

How a Couple of ex-Microsoft Guys Built An Open Source Powerhouse NetworkWorld.com But two ex-Microsofties have leveraged the open source model to catapult to the top of the heap in the collaboration space in just a few short years. ...

Google open sources web app security scanner Register Google has released an open source security scanner designed to seek out holes in, yes, web applications. Dubbed Skipfish, this web app "security ...

Open source finds its way into CFD trading NetworkWorld.com By Jan Kovar, IDG News Service As open source platforms become more popular, they find their way into less usual areas than before. ...

Open Source ECM Provider Nuxeo Eyes Global Expansion TMCnet By Anamika Singh, TMCnet Contributor Nuxeo, a provider of Open Source Enterprise Content Management, has announced that it has seen significant growth in ...

Omni Bridges Gap between SugarCRM and Exchange at Open Source CRM Event TMCnet By Anuradha Shukla, TMCnet Contributor Omni Technology Solutions (News - Alert) will present at open source CRM provider SugarCRM's 2010 SugarCon event in ...

Why Webscale Companies Need open Source OStatic (blog) George Santayana wasn't talking about open source when he said that, of course, but it applies to the lessons of proprietary software just as well. ...

Open Source: Next generation Focuses on Data Formtek Blog (blog) By Dick Weisinger, on March 22nd, 2010 First there was Open Source — for software. The next phase is about data — Open Data. And local, state and federal ...

After rejecting bid, Novell open to sale Boston Globe Today, Novell is the second-largest vendor of Linux open-source operating system software, trailing only Red Hat Inc. of Raleigh, NC Novell also makes ..