Archive for the ‘Open Source's Blog’ Category
This week at CES, there’s been a number of new e-readers announced, including Hearst Corporation’s Skiff, Spring Design’s Alex, Copia’s slew of e-readers, and Plastic Logic’s Que, as well as <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA671377
A quick review of Save MySQL online petition stats shows that the results are still in line with the results I reported previously. Over 90 percent of petition signees would require Oracle to divest MySQL to a “suitable third party.”
Florian Mueller began 2010 by demonstrating why he was named EU Campaigner of the Year by the Economist magazine five years ago. While most of us were prepping for New Year’s Eve celebrations or contemplating New Year’s resolutions, Mueller and MySQL co-founder and creator Michael “Monty” Widenius spent Dec. 28 launching an online Save MySQL petition against the Oracle acquisition of MySQL via Sun. Mueller reports via e-mail:
A couple of weeks ago, Gartner issued a market report indicating that Microsoft’s share of the smartphone market had fallen to less than 8 percent in the last year, while Apple and RIM both made significant gains. Microsoft is at risk of falling into last place in mobile phones if it doesn’t do something about it. So what’s the one strength Microsoft can bring to the table?
No doubt the term “cloud computing” is rapidly reaching the top of its hype cycle, but at least in some examples, the hype is backed up by real customer demand. That’s the case with Alfresco’s latest announcement with Right Scale to provide a cloud computing solution for its enterprise content management customers.
After my previous post, “Cloud to boost proprietary software use?,” Tim Bray questioned whether the pricing comparison of “WebSphere/SUSE vs. JBoss/RHEL on EC2 was a transient anomaly.” JBoss’ Rich Sharples commented that I was comparing apples and oranges. That was not my intention.
Last week Eben Moglen, founder and executive director of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), submitted an independent opinion on the Oracle/Sun merger to the European Union (EU). Moglen summarized his submission as follows:
Yesterday Apple took the extreme step of banning a developer, Molinker, for posting bogus reviews on iTunes.
No doubt, there’s some number of bogus reviews on any product review site, whether iTunes, Amazon, or elsewhere. But in this case, the developer had posted dozens if not hundreds of bogus reviews across their product portfolio.
I previously wrote that open source freedom helped me choose Western Digital’s MyBook World Edition (MBWE) over Apple’s Time Capsule as our home backup solution. I hadn’t considered the value of open source freedom to Western Digital’s product planning process.
Earlier this week OpenLogic announced commercial support for CentOS, a Linux distribution derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The CentOS distribution is ostensibly RHEL source code with Red Hat’s branding and artwork removed.