The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announces version 0.7 of the Cassandra open-source distributed database. –
The Apache Software
Foundation (ASF) has announced Apache Cassandra version 0.7, a
second-generation, open-source distributed database.
ASF officials said new features in Cassandra 0.7 include
secondary indexes, which represent an expressive way to query data through
node-local storage on the…
Black Duck Software acquires The Olliance Group, an open source business and strategy consulting firm. – Black Duck Software, which sells solutions to help enterprises manage the use of open-source software, has announced it has acquired The Olliance Group, an independent open source business and strategy consulting firm.
Terms of the deal through which Black Duck acquired the privately held company…
Apaches new Google-hosted “Apache Extras” site provides a "home away from home" for code associated with Apache projects. – The Apache Software Foundation has announced a
new Google-hosted site to spur innovation on open-source efforts that
feature code associated with Apache projects.
The new site is known as Apache Extras and can
be found at apache-extras.org. ASF officials said the site is for code
associated wit…
In a move to share some of the wealth it has gained from using and promoting open-source software, Engine Yard, Ruby on Rails cloud services provider, has launched a new grant program for developers. – Engine Yard, a cloud computing platform-as-a-service provider for Ruby on Rails, has announced a new effort to support innovative open source developers, called the Engine Yard Open Source Software Community Grant program.
This new program aims to help key projects and OSS contributors gain tracti…
Opensource offers good opportunity for robust web development. Source code is openly available to all, without any license fee so anyone with enough skill can modify the source code and show their creativity.
Black Duck Software acquires the assets of SpikeSource and also hires Sara Ford, former program manager for Microsoft’s CodePlex open-source project hosting site. – Black Duck Software, a
provider of products and services for managing the use of open-source software,
has acquired the assets of SpikeSource,
a provider of software tools and services to automate application component
identification and assess security vulnerability.
Among the technologies ac…
AMD joined MeeGo, the open-source Linux project led by Intel and Nokia to be an active contributor to the mobile operating system. – Advanced Micro Devices has joined the MeeGo open-source
project, to contribute quot;engineering expertise quot; to the next-generation mobile
operating system, the company said on Nov. 15.
Run by the Linux Foundation, MeeGo is a mobile operating
system for next-generation mobile platforms and e…
News Analysis: The topic of open-source software has been steeped in debate since the development and licensing took root in the 1980s and picked up steam with the proliferation of the Internet in the decade that followed. – The topic of open-source software has been steeped in debate
since the development and licensing took root in the 1980s and picked up steam
with the proliferation of the Internet in the decade that followed. As open-source
tools and components began to grow more familiar among developers, enterpr…
To properly evaluate the strengths of PostgreSQL and MySQL, the two leading open-source databases, one must look at the history and pedigree of each, and their feature functionality and performance. By comparing and contrasting PostgreSQL and MySQL here, Knowledge Center contributor Jim Mlodgenski guides you to a more informed decision about which open-source database is right for your enterprise deployment. – Traditionally, the comparison between PostgreSQL and MySQL gets heated from both sides of the religious camps. They are both technically strong, open-source databases with a large install base. However, in reality, rarely do the strengths of each database overlap to an extent where it is a toss-up o…
With the Oracle OpenWorld 2010 conference under way in San Francisco, rival enterprise database PostgreSQL was updated with new replication technology. – The latest version of open-source database PostgreSQL is now available, this
time bringing with it new hot standby and replication capabilities.
In 9.0, users can find more than a dozen
major features touching on everything from security to performance. The
replication and hot standby enhancemen…
News Analysis: Oracle’s suit against Google over Android is only the first shot in a war to end open-source software in all of its forms. – There’s no question that Oracle just hates the very idea
of open-source software. The suit against Google over its use of Java in the
open-source Android mobile operating system is really just part of a
pattern.
If you look at what’s happened already, the pattern has
become clear. Oracle ha…
Lockheed Martin, the nation’s largest defense contractor, has launched a new open-source project for enterprise social networking called Eureka Streams. The company is inviting developers to give the technology a whirl. – Lockheed Martin, the nation’s
largest defense contractor, has launched a new open-source project for
enterprise social networking called Eureka
Streams.
The Eureka Streams technology, which looks and behaves much like existing commercial
social networking software, is aimed at helping what Lock…
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced Version 7.0 release of Apache Tomcat, the popular open-source Java web server. Tomcat 7.0 is the first major release of the software since 2006. – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced Version 7.0
release of Apache Tomcat, the popular open-source Java web server.
Apache Tomcat 7 is the project’s first major release since 2006,
fully implementing the Java Servlet 3.0, JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.2,
and Expression Language (EL) 2.2…
More than 4 billion TV users exist in the world. Americans watch an average of five hours of TV per day. Companies spend $70 billion per year advertising on TV in the United States alone. This is why Google is launching Google TV with partners Sony, Intel, Logitech and Best Buy this fall for the holiday season. Google TV marries Web surfing with channel surfing, running on an Android-based platform and accessible through the Chrome Web browser. There are many questions about this ambitious service. Check out snapshots of Google’s presentation of Google TV here. – …
Microsoft is getting involved with another big-time open-source project, having agreed to support the popular Joomla content management system.
– Microsoft is getting its hands into another big-time open-source project,
with a new
agreement to support the popular Joomla
content management system.
In a blog post April 28, Josh Holmes, a user experience architect evangelist
at Microsoft, said Microsoft
has signed a contributor agreement t…
The open-source software community is up in arms over claims that IBM has broken a promise by asserting its patents against an open-source project. IBM denies that it has done so.
– The open-source software community is up in arms over claims that IBM has broken its promise to the community by asserting its patents against an open-source project. However, IBM says it has done no such thing.
In a letter to Roger Bowler, president of French mainframe emulator software maker Turb…
Is the Eclipse Foundation a true open-source community or simply a trade association? That’s the issue a former Eclipse Foundation bigwig raised recently before being slapped down by Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich.
– Is the Eclipse Foundation a true open-source community or simply a trade
association?
That’s the issue a former Eclipse Foundation bigwig raised recently before
being slapped
down by Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich.
In a post titled, quot;It’s
a Trade Association, quo…
Microsoft admits that a third-party developer lifted open-source code from the GPLv2-licensed ImageMaster project in creating its free Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. The WUDT had originally been intended as a way of porting Windows 7 onto netbook users’ machines. Microsoft takes responsibility for not catching the code replication as part of its code review process.
– Microsoft took responsibility for a developer lifting code from a
CodePlex-hosted open-source project to build its free Windows 7 USB/DVD
Download Tool, an incident that caused Microsoft to yank the program from its
online Microsoft Store earlier in November.
Microsoft had originally introduced …
Some folks are claiming that Google is faking the open-source funk by not being as open as it could be about Android.
– LONDON Some folks are claiming that Google is faking the open-source funk.
OK, it’s a lot to say, really. Because for all the open-source software Google has helped put forth, it’s a bit of a stretch to imply that the company is faking it. But Lee Williams, executive director of the Symbian Foundat…
The Symbian Foundation says it is well on its way toward the goal of open-sourcing the Symbian OS, having reached the release of the platform microkernel and supporting development kit under the Eclipse Public License.
– The Symbian Foundation announced Oct.
21 that it is well on its way toward the goal of open-sourcing the Symbian OS
by reaching the release of the platform microkernel and supporting development
kit under the Eclipse Public License.
The release of the kernel, EKA2 (Epco Kernel Architecture 2), i…
