Turbolinux Microsoft Love Charade
In what seems like a promotional press release for Microsoft, Turbolinux talks about something which is called “Interop Vendor Alliance”. Remember WSPP and MCPP? The release from Turbolinux itself…
Business Strategy of Moving to Enterprise Open Source on Microsoft at PDMA-BPMA
Aras Corporation announced that Marc Lind, vice president of marketing, will present “Open Source Transformation: Managing the Transition to an Open Source Business Model” at the upcoming joint…
Open Source Data Warehousing: Get Ready for Disruption
Business intelligence and data warehousing are in the path of open source development. Over the years, open source moved from basic developer tools to infrastructure to application tools and is…
An Open Letter to the New Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd
Your campaign promised Australia a world-class education system, with an emphasis on "digital schools" and a computer for every child in Years 9 to 12. I laud your vision and extend my support and…
Rational Tester for SOA Quality
Download a free trial version of Rational Tester for SOA Quality, a functional and regression testing tool that enables the creation, comprehension, modification and execution of testing GUI-less…
IcedTea free Java in Fedora 8
"Java is a popular programming language used both on the desktop and the net. Until recently users who wanted to use just free software have had to struggle with partial support for Java, but now…
Cheap Laptops Bad for Vista, Good for Linux
The good news for everyone is that you can get a good, solid laptop for under a grand these days. The bad news for Vista users is that many of those laptops, even though they're sold with Vista,…
Q&A: Pamela Jones of Groklaw
Groklaw is the blog that has made a difference. Created as a personal project by Pamela Jones, better known as PJ, in 2003, its stated purpose was to increase understanding of the law as it is…
Novell Ships SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10
Novell today announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10, the latest version of Novell's enterprise-class, open source real-time operating system for running high-performance…
ASUS eeePC: First impressions and GPL violations
"ASUS is bound by the GPL to make the sources for the software they’re distributing available, even if they have not modified them. (Check the license if you don’t believe me.) ASUS has posted a 1…