TurboLinux joins Microsoft in interop vendor alliance. Study finds Java losing ground to .Net. Zenoss launches network management offering for educational institutions. (and more)

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BBS Technologies acquires R1Soft. SourceForge reports quarterly earnings. Novell ships updated SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time. (and more)

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Funambol’s move to adopt the new GNU Affero GPLv3 (AGPLv3) has some interesting implications for the mobile open source software player. It will be even more interesting, though, to see whether other open source SaaS players follow Funambol’s lead. What will be the impacts of closing open source software’s loopholes?
Funambol describes AGPLv3 as ‘the open […]

FSF releases the new Affero license. SFLC files new GPL lawsuits for BusyBox project. Spring creator Interface21 rebrands as SpringSource. (and more)

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With Australian voters set to take to the polls tomorrow to vote in the country’s Federal election, both iTWire and iTNews (I guess they have a thing for lower case i down under) are reporting the results of a survey by Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) that indicates that all the major political parties in […]

The US might be busy giving thanks but work life goes on for the rest of us in the ROTW, and comments made today by Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for information and society, indicate that perhaps Europe should be taking advantage of the fact the Americans are having a day off to focus on its […]

Say what you want about GPLv3, but the update to the most popular open source software license continues to close loopholes that have been used to avoid sharing source code, patent protection and other freedoms that the authors intended. Still, we have yet to see whether this closes off any appeal of the GPL and […]

There was a lot of excitement earlier this week following presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s promise to “put government data online in universally accessible formats” should he make it to the White House.
“Open Formats Enter the Presidential Debate,” stated Andy Updegrove. “Obama Voices Support for ODF” wrote eWeek. “When U.S. presidential candidates start promoting their open-source […]

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has filed two new GPL-based copyright lawsuits for open source software developers of BusyBox, a set of Unix software tools used typically in embedded systems. The SFLC recently settled a similar case it pursued on behalf of the same developers against Monsoon Media, which corrected its failure to make […]

“We have all run into cases where Windows refuses to load for one reason or another. The problem may be hardware or a software failure, and the problem may seem to be irrecoverable. Yet often Linux can be used to help recover data that otherwise might be lost.” Here (PDF) is a fascinating little document […]

Both Dana Blankenhorn and Dan Farber have written posts today about Paglo, a new “search engine for IT” launched today. Based on open source tools, Paglo offers a spider that crawls a user’s network enabling them to search for network problems that require ad hoc investigation. The service is offered free of charge and users […]

As I sat watching Larry Ellison’s keynote at Oracle OpenWorld on Wednesday it occurred to me that something was not quite right. This is the end of a year in which Oracle released a major new version of its flagship Database product and made a number of acquisitions, including Hyperion, Agile and Coherence, not to […]

GroundWork partners with Nagios founder. Pentaho launches update to data integation offering. Zenoss adds systems management support for virtualization. (and more)

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I wrote last week about the continued strength and appeal of Linux for supercomputers. With this week’s release of the latest list of the Top500 Supercomputers, I wanted to quantify that dominance that is being reported elsewhwere.
It should be mentioned that HPC competition seems to be heating up for sure. Microsoft continues to stretch into […]

Sun announces VM offering based on Xen. Oracle enlightens on Unbreakable Linux adoption. Red Hat and Hyperic partner on systems management offering. (and more)

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Here at OpenWorld Oracle hosted a round table on its open source strategy earlier today. Here’s what happened as it happened, including Berkeley DB, Oracle VM, InnoDB, and what Oracle really thinks of MySQL. NB All comments are paraphrased unless direct quote marks are used.
The players:
Ken Jacobs, VP of product strategy, server technologies division.
Omar Tazi, […]

Here at OpenWorld Oracle hosted a round table on its open source strategy earlier today. Here’s what happened as it happened, including Oracle’s engagement with open source communities and contributions to Linux and open source middleware.
NB All comments are paraphrased unless direct quote marks are used.
The players:
Ken Jacobs, VP of product strategy, server technologies […]

Microsoft and Kyocera sign patent agreement. Volantis goes open. UnivaUD launches Grid.org community. (and more)

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I’ve long been a supporter of using Linux and other open source software on older, refurbished and outdated computers (eating my own dog food with most work on 2-3+ year-old computers). But lately I’ve been seeing quite a bit about the longevity of Windows XP. Microsoft’s OS was extended for use by OEMs a couple […]

Yahoo launches new open source program. Red Hat shows strong opening numbers for Fedora 8. Oracle unveils virtualization strategy. (and more)

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