CodePlex, patents and Linux code. An interesting few days for Microsoft open source.
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CodePlex, CodePlex, CodePlex!
Microsoft launched the CodePlex Foundation to facilitate
open source contributions, and confirmed the departure of Sam Ramji.
Patents, Patents, Patents!
The OIN confirmed the acquisition of 22 patents formerly
owned by …
Governments. Governance. Customers wins. And more.
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Governments
The Examiner provided a two part interview with Daniel Risascher, Office of
the CIO, Department of Defense, on open source at the DoD, while
Government Technology Magazine reported on how open source software and cloud
computing can save government money. Similarly, The UK
Conservative party delivered a paper on the future of open standards,
open source, SOA and cloud for UK Government, while it was
reported that Vienna to …
Yahoo opens up Hadoop distribution. Microsoft and Novell claim customer wins. And more.
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The elephant in the room
Plenty of news emerged form the Hadoop Summit this week,
including Cloudera announced support for Amazon Elastic Block Storage
(EBS) and introduced Sqoop, open source tool for importing
databases into Hadoop, while Yahoo! Released! The! Yahoo!
Distribution! Of! Hadoop! opening up its Hadoop developments to
the wider community. As Savio Rodrigues noted, there has been a
surge in the number of contributors for the Hadoop project in the
last year.
Best of the rest
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OIN aims to cut the FAT. What is the point of the GPL? Black Duck takes flight. Ingres delivers Salesforce.com appliance. The ongoing fallout from Oracle-Sun. Feedback on the Bee Keeper model. And more.
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OIN aims to cut the FAT
# The Open Invention Network announced plans to review the Microsoft FAT
patents at the center of its recent skirmish and settlement with TomTom. have been placed for
prior art review on the Post-Issue …
Open source in government. Sourcefire announces relationships with Symantec and Microsoft. EPL supercedes CPL. The cost and potential savings of open source. The origins of open source. IBM and Sun - back on? And more.
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# OStatic: Why Isn’t Open Source Even Considered at the U.S. State Government Level?
# Simon Phipps: Five Ideas To Get FOSS Into Governments.
# Sourcefire’s 3D system to be bundled as part of the Symantec Managed Security Services offering.
# Sourcefire has also announced a strategic relationship with Microsoft.
# The Eclipse Foundation has …
[Read more]Microsoft and TomTom settle patent claims. Alfresco makes progress and shifts its strategy. The Open Cloud Manifesto is published. Support for free software. And more.
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Quietening the patent drums
Cnet’s Ina Fried had the scoop on the news that Microsoft and TomTom
had reached a settlement in their patent dispute. The news story
was quickly followed by Microsoft’s official statement, as well as a note from the Software
Freedom Law Center that the situation is not completely dealt
with. Jay Lyman delivered the 451 CAOS …
Reaction to Marten Mickos’s departure from Sun. On open letter to President Obama. Lots of announcements from Sun, the LIMO Foundation and WS02. Mozilla offers to help EC investigation of Microsoft. Black Duck raises funding and gets a new CEO. The state of Red Hat. And more.
Mickos fallout
Kaj Arno maintained that “MySQL’s culture and business
philosophy will live on in Sun.” He added: “In fact, you could
say MySQL now becomes mainstream at Sun. Former MySQLers continue
in key positions, in some cases with a mandate to generalise and
apply MySQL related learnings on other open source products.”
For example, Charles Babcock …
[Read more]Actuate and Black Duck report on third quarter performance. Red Hat welcomes Microsoft to AMQP. Canonial launches Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition. How to pronounce my surname. And more.
Press releases
Actuate Reports Third Quarter 2008 Financial
Results
Actuate
Black Duck Software Continues Phenomenal Growth in Q3 Black Duck
Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition enables mobile, flexible computing for a changing digital world Canonical
Microsoft Joins Working Group for Open Standards Messaging Software Microsoft
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[Read more]“The question is not why use open source, but how to best use open source,” wrote Matt Asay earlier this week. It was a throwaway point but one that I think deserves more attention.
It occurred to me that “how” rather than “why” is the most significant question that open source vendors and projects should be answering right now as they try to encourage greater adoption of open source software.
There can’t be a CIO or IT director left on the planet that hasn’t either asked or been told why they should deploy open source software. They are either inclined towards believing the claims of theoretical benefits or they’re not. How many have asked or been told how they can take advantage of open source software?
Certainly those that are convinced or intrigued by the potential benefits will have gone on to explore …
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