Friday, March 26, 2010

March 26 Open Source News

Former MySQL CEO: More successful open source startups needed
NetworkWorld.com
By Paul Krill, InfoWorld Open source is no longer considered the wild underdog, but it will need more new companies making money off the trend, the one-time ...
Commercial Add Ons to Open Source Software: aheadWorks and Magento
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Si Chen Here's an open source business model that's creeping up on us: Selling add-ons to open source software. For under $100, you can buy predesigned ...
WordPress Founder: Open Source Is About People, Not Technology
FTC Publications
Now one of the biggest forces in social media, founder of WordPress Matt Mullenweg, has taken the stage to speak about the open source movement, the origins ...
Open source channel buoyant as Red Hat sales surge
CRN - UK
UK VARs have reported a turnaround in end-user attitudes towards open source software, just as Linux kingpin Red Hat posted a double-digit sales surge. ...
Ada Lovelace will have her day after all
Irish Times
Anyone can join an open-source project. Communally run, you need no interviews or prior experience to contribute. All you need is a computer and an internet ...
Let's Not Deride Open Core
OStatic (blog)
25, 2010Comments (0) Open core remains one of the biggest topics in the open source world, as John discussed here. In essence, of course, the term refers to ...
Future of Open Source Survey - Results
Smart Data Collective (blog)
The continued growth of open-source generally was a prevalent theme. For example, did you know that more than 19000 open-source projects were initiated in ...
TurboHercules Files a Complaint against IBM
TMCnet
TurboHercules is the first commercial entity exclusively dedicated to Hercules, the well-known open source software implementation of the IBM (News - Alert) ...
WeWebU Turns 10 and Gives out Presents
RealWire (press release)
The Open Source edition will support all CMIS-enabled ECM platforms, eg Alfresco, and will be released in early July. A fully supported commercial version ..

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