Open Source / GPL

The open-source community is being roiled by the recent deal between Microsoft and Novell, especially by their covenant not to sue each other's customers for any possible patent infringement.…

A new dedicated open source body is due for launch, representing the open source community of Europe. The National Open Centre (NOC) will officially launch on February 26th, uniting various…

ESB Research Note by RedMonk Puts Open Source, proprietary approaches in context for Would-Be Adopters.

RedMonk (www.redmonk.com), a market research and advisory firm, today released an…

Organizations such as the newly formed Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) face considerable challenges in their efforts to promote the improved integration of open source business systems, experts have…

Is open-source still a grassroots social movement made up of idealistic underdogs trying to revolutionize an amoral industry? Or has it become a cloak used by IT vendors large and small to…

Cuba's communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least one capitalist empire — Microsoft Corp. — by joining with socialist Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source…

The open source project, OpenVZ (www.openvz.org) delivered some 50 software updates and in total more than 2 terabytes of its virtualization software were downloaded in 2006 by the user community…

The open source project, OpenVZ (www.openvz.org) announces the availability of features in its operating system server virtualization software that include.

- Delivery of checkpointing and…

Is open-source still a grassroots social movement made up of idealistic underdogs trying to revolutionize an amoral industry? Or has it become a cloak used by IT vendors large and small to…

"It might not be the obvious big ticket, but it's only a matter of time. So, sit up and listen.

I recently gave a presentation at CIO on ‘Making Your Organization Open Source-Ready’, which…