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Opening up the search competition
Jay Lyman, May 3, 2007 @ 11:23 pm ETWe heard this week that community content company Wikia hired Jabber IM and XMPP creator Jeremie Miller to help its open source, collaborative Internet search software effort. This seriously bolsters the plan for an open source crawler and other search software announced earlier this year by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who is also a Wikia [...]
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451 CAOS Links – 2007.05.03
Raven Zachary, May 3, 2007 @ 11:21 pm ETSourcefire announces Q107 results. Zmanda hires a new CEO. Open Source Think Tank summit releases report. (and more)
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451 CAOS Links – 2007.05.02
Raven Zachary, May 2, 2007 @ 10:53 pm ETCompiere fork ADempiere claims production quality. Unisys and Forrester release study on open source acceptance. Apelon open sources Vocabulary Server. (and more)
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451 CAOS Links – 2007.05.01
Raven Zachary, May 1, 2007 @ 11:12 pm ETDell to offer pre-install option for Ubuntu. Linux Foundation announces a travel fund for open source developers. BEA Workshop update to include additional open source software. (and more)
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Ubuntu-Dell is great news. Its success tests Canonical’s support model.
Nick Selby, May 1, 2007 @ 11:00 am ETCanonical has announced that Dell will sell personal computers pre-installed with Feisty Fawn, Ubuntu 7.04. Financial details, such as what license fee if any is being paid by Dell to Canonical, which sponsors Ubuntu, were not disclosed. Dell will offer optional paid support from Canonical, maintaining Canonical’s support revenue model; some Dell customers are willing [...]
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