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451 CAOS Links 2008.12.12

, December 12, 2008 @ 12:46 pm ET

FSF sues Cisco for GPL violations. JasperSoft and Lucid Imagination raise funding. Sun updates OpenSolaris. WaveMaker launches IDE for the cloud. And more.

Official announcements
Free Software Foundation Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations Free Software Foundation

Jaspersoft Secures $12.5 Million in Venture Funding JasperSoft

Sound Investment Red Hat

Jaspersoft Announces New Community Edition of the World’s Most Widely Deployed Business Intelligence Software JasperSoft

HP Expands Easy-to-use Virtual Protection Tool, Desktop Linux Offering for Small Business Customers Hewlett-Packard

Sun Microsystems Launches Latest Version of OpenSolaris Sun Microsystems

Zmanda Partners With Sun to Launch Advanced Backup Solutions Based on OpenSolaris Zmanda

WaveMaker Announces First Open IDE for Cloud Computing WaveMaker

Alfresco and Joomla Deliver First Integration Based On CMIS Standard Alfresco

Google Web Toolkit and Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise Middleware Enable Next Generation Web Application Development Red Hat

Open-Xchange Announces Four Additional SaaS Providers Open-Xchange

Ingres Database Achieves Certified Integration With SAP Netweaver Technology Platform Ingres

SpringSource Launches New Partner Program for Consultants and Developers SpringSource

GoldenGate and Ingres Extend Real-Time Capabilities for Open Source Customers to Achieve Business Continuity GoldenGate

OpenLogic Launches Training Services for Open Source Software OpenLogic

Jedox Announces Palo OLAP Server 3.0, Featuring New Multiprocessor Support for Even Greater Speed and Scalability Jedox

SFLC Works With LinuxDefenders to Address Software Patent Threats Software Freedom Law Center

Open Health Tools Announces New Open Source Project that Will Help Run Health Information Exchanges and Create Unique Identifiers for the Healthcare Industry Misys

Essentia Powers Open Solutions Alliance Community Portal With EssentiaESP Essentia

News articles
Sun shines after Dunn’s backing Richard Waters, Financial Times

Microsoft revising its attitude toward open source Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service

Lucid Imagination Raises First Round PE Hub

Sun takes another swing at cloud computing James Niccolai, IDG News Service

Funambol’s CEO sees AGPL as essential for FOSS in cloud computing’s future Bruce Byfield, Linux.com

EU court to hear groups, vendors in Microsoft antitrust appeal Paul Meller, ComputerWorld

Saving on licences is a main advantage of open source, report says Gijs Hillenius, OSOR.EU

Blogs
Is Cisco an open source leech? Savio Rodrigues, InfoWorld

Answering Savio: “Is Cisco an open source leech?” Dave Roberts

Whither open source in the land of leeches? Matt Asay, Cnet

Free Software Foundation Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations Dave Roberts

WaveMaker Launches First Open-Source IDE for the Cloud Chris Keene, WaveMaker

Open Source Business Intelligence In an Economic Down-Turn James Dixon

Symbian vs. Android vs. Windows Mobile Fabrizio Capobianco, Funambol

Open Source Industry Expert Defends Decision to Join Microsoft Lisa Hoover, OStatic

Insubordinate or honest? What should Sun do about Monty? Joe Brockmeier, ZDnet

A Little Chat With Microsoft On Open Source Platform Strategy Serdar Yegulalp, InformationWeek

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3 Responses to “451 CAOS Links 2008.12.12”

  1. Re: “Microsoft revising its attitude toward open source Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service”

    It”s about selling proprietary Microsoft stacks. Nothing has changed at Microsoft other than the EEE (divide and conquer strategy).

    “Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.”

    –Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO

  2. Антон says:

    Недвижимость в деталях…

    ustice for Friday, December 12, 2008: Awkward Silent). Однако при отсутствии таких положений при наличии всех установленных законом существенных условий требов…

  3. [...] previously reported the $6m funding round for Lucid Imagination, which is building a commercial business around Lucene [...]