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Article | 31/07/2010 SAP warms to open source
Although not traditionally known for its contributions to the open-source community, the German-based SAP is adopting more open-source software, as we...
Article | 29/07/2010 Dell, HP to resell Oracle's operating systems
Oracle said Thursday that rival hardware vendors Dell and Hewlett-Packard intend to certify and resell its Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating syst...
Article | 27/07/2010 OpenSSO, neglected by Oracle, gets second life
A Norwegian startup is assuming responsibility for maintaining an open source Web authentication technology originally developed by Sun Microsystems, ...
Article | 25/07/2010 Mozilla re-patches Firefox 3.6 to fix plug-in problem
For the second time in two months, Mozilla on Friday rushed out a fix for Firefox to patch a problem with a browser update issued just days before.
Article | 23/07/2010 Perl creator hints at imminent Perl 6 release
In his annual "State of the Onion" speech at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), Perl creator Larry Wall hinted that the long-awaited version...
Article | 23/07/2010 OSCON: Open source lazy about social Web services
While open-source coders have done a remarkable job of providing a complete open-source software stack, they haven't kept up with the emergence of Web...
Article | 23/07/2010 Google to rev up Chrome release schedule
Google on Thursday said it will pick up Chrome's release pace by issuing a new version of the browser about every six weeks. According to Anthony Lafo...
Article | 23/07/2010 Drupal Gardens getting ready to bloom
Drupal Gardens, the planned cloud version of the open source Drupal content management system, went into a public beta stage Thursday, thus making it ...
Article | 22/07/2010 Terabyte-sized Java apps now possible
The new version of the Terracotta distributed Java caching software is able, for the first time, to aggregate more than a terabyte of pooled memory fo...
Article | 22/07/2010 Mozilla patches 16 security bugs in Firefox 3.6
Mozilla on Tuesday patched 16 vulnerabilities, nine of them critical, in Firefox 3.6, the largest update for the open-source browser since March.
Article | 20/07/2010 RackSpace's OpenStack targets cloud lock-in
Rackspace's contribution of code to a new open-source project called OpenStack could help establish a counterweight to larger and proprietary players ...
Article | 15/07/2010 Study: Most MySQL users not too worried about Oracle
The MySQL community is mostly neutral or positive about the open-source database's prospects under Oracle's stewardship, according to a newly released...
Article | 15/07/2010 CouchDB NoSQL database ready for production use
The first fully production-ready nonrelational, or NoSQL, database, called CouchDB, has been released, the corporate sponsor of the project, Couchio, ...
Article | 15/07/2010 OpenSolaris Governing Board may dissolve
Frustrated by what they consider poor treatment and lack of interest from Oracle, members of the OpenSolaris Governing Board are essentially deliverin...
Article | 14/07/2010 Richard Stallman coming to Australia
Controversial free and open source software luminary Richard Stallman will hit Australia for an unknown period of time in October, with a keynote sche...