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451 CAOS Links 2008.12.09
Matthew Aslett, December 9, 2008 @ 12:26 pm ETLinux Defenders formed to protect against patents. Sun adds new board members and officially announces MySQL 5.1. Microsoft releases open source content management system. Google’s secret OS? And more.
Official announcements
Open Invention Network and Partners Unveil Landmark ‘Linux Defenders’ Program to Give the Open Source Community Greater Freedom Open Invention Network
Sun Microsystems and Southeastern Asset Management Agree to Appoint New Independent Members to Sun’s Board of Directors Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems Releases MySQL 5.1 – Boosts Performance & Simplifies Management of Large-Scale Database Applications Sun Microsystems
Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elects New Members The Linux Foundation
Appcelerator Brings Web Applications to the Desktop with Titanium Appcelerator
Appcelerator Secures $4.1 Million in Series A Venture Funding Appcelerator
(NB – this funding deal was previously reported in July)
Adobe Collaborates with SpringSource for Enhanced Integration Between Flash and SpringSource Platforms SpringSource
SugarCRM Introduces New Cloud Services and Social Feeds SugarCRM
Talend Launches Talend Babili Community Translation Project Talend
Black Duck Software Busts Myths About Application Development Black Duck
Metaforic to Secure the Open Source LAMP Stack Metaforic
Virtual Iron growth outpaces server virtualization marketplace Virtual Iron
Open Source Visionary Larry Augustin Joins DotNetNuke Corp. Board of Directors DotNetNuke
GroundWork Improves Community Product Testing And Insight With BitRock Network Service GroundWork Open Source
Open Handset Alliance announces 14 new members Open Handset Alliance
FTF and gpl-violations release a guide to reporting and fixing licence violations Free Software Foundation Europe
News articles
Firms Aim to Ease Patent Risks for Linux Users Don Clark, Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
Sun’s Mickos says he’s OK with MySQL co-founder’s 5.1 rant Chris Kanaracus, IDG
OS: Does That Mean Operating Systems, Open Source, or Both? Jonathan Erickson, Dr Dobb’s Journal
What’s Open About OpenSolaris? Jonathan Erickson, Dr Dobb’s Journal
Blogs
Microsoft develops open-source content-management system Mary Jo Foley, ZDnet
Oxite: Just MIX and Serve Joe Wilcox, eWeek Microsoft Watch
Red Hat Invests In Open Source Business Intelligence The VAR Guy
What’s going on in MySQL land? Giuseppe Maxia
The cost of developing enterprise-only open source features Savio Rodrigues, InfoWorld
Destroying MySQL Kevin Burton
The New MySQL Landscape Jeremy Zawodny
Google’s secret operating system Matt Asay, Cnet
Pentaho Channel Chief Lars Nordwall Talks Open Source Business Intelligence The VAR Guy
Native Client: A Technology for Running Native Code on the Web Brad Chen, Google Code Blog
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