March 29 Open Source News

Start-up Abiquo manages public, private clouds via open source NetworkWorld.com Open source software gets Microsoft Hyper-V support, automated virtual machine conversion features to better enable heterogeneous cloud management ...

Open Source ERP Heads into the Cloud IT Business Edge (blog) By date: As the CEO of xTuple, Ned Lily will be the first to tell you that he's not sure exactly how much traction open source ERP applications are going to ...

JumpBox Unveils 'Open Source as a Service' and Empowers Businesses with ... PR Web (press release) JumpBox, provider of services that amplify the usefulness of Open Source server software, today unveiled "Open Source as a Service," a utility-based ...

Microsoft Pledges Support For Open Source eWEEK Europe UK The open-source project is "designed to foster interoperability and make Eclipse a first-class tool on the Microsoft platform," Microsoft said, ...

Open source tool to mange electronic petitions UKauthorITy.com A first version of an open source tool to help manage electronic petitions has been published on the Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR) for ...

Open Source and Open Standards under Threat in Europe ComputerworldUK (blog) Open source is under attack in Europe. Not openly or obviously, but in the background, behind closed doors. The battleground is the imminent Digital Agenda ...

Android Devices Crave Google's Attention Wired News Though Android is free and open source, Google exercises control over what devices can access the Android Market's applications and receive extensive ...

For Open Cloud Computing, Look Inside Your Data Center GigaOm (blog) However, the writing on the wall suggests that, from the customer's perspective, open source and open standards might be changing things for the better. ...

NVIDIA dropping support for new GPUs in the nv driver The H NVIDIA has announced that it is dropping the support for new GPUs, such as the forthcoming Fermi, from it's open source xf86-video-nv driver for X11. ...

Actuate Receives MarketTools CustomerSat Achievement in Customer Excellence ... MarketWatch (press release) Actuate founded and continues to co-lead the Eclipse BIRT open source project. BIRT is the premier development environment for Rich Information Applications ..