Redmond Ends Linux War
In what could be considered the official end to hostilities between Redmond and the open source community, Microsoft on Tuesday announced the Interop Vendor Alliance, a broad-based confederation…
OpenClinica 2.0 Released
OpenClinica is a web-based Clinical Data Management Software (CDMS) platform developed by Akaza Research for managing multi-site clinical research studies. OpenClinica facilitates clinical trial…
Red Hat Shares Fall 3.3%
If Tuesday serves as any indication, the third quarter may not be a good one for Linux king Red Hat.
On the same day that the company's Chief Financial Officer Charlie Peters said Oracle's…
Interview with Justin Steinman of Novell
The Internet was buzzing these days about the recent Novell-Microsoft agreement. Under an unprecedented deal, Microsoft has agreed to offer sales support for SUSE Linux and start working on…
Liberating Verizon FiOS using free operating systems
As we prepared to open a new Freedom Technology Center in a rehabilitated site in New Jersey, I came to learn that Verizon was capable of offering fiber service at our location. Officially, they…
Build a Web spider on Linux
Web spiders are software agents that traverse the Internet gathering, filtering, and potentially aggregating information for a user. Using common scripting languages and their collection of Web…
OpenVZ Delivers Live Migration Capability
HERNDON, Va., November 14, 2006 -- The OpenVZ project (http://openvz.org) today announced availability of its operating system-level server virtualization software in the form of a kernel based on…
Red Hat Stock Climbing Back
Red Hat (RHAT) shares have come scratching back from their worst levels following the twin announcements that Oracle (ORCL) plans to offer maintenance service to Red Hat Linux users while…
Open-source project treads on Google Maps turf
The U.K.-based OpenStreetMap (OSM) mapping data is collected by volunteers using GPS devices to record their movements as they drive, cycle or walk along all the roads in a particular area.
…Apache project keeps pace with Java changes
Apache Harmony, started last year, is creating an open-source version of Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE), software for making Java programs on PCs.
About two weeks ago, the board…