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ApacheCon Series: Sourcesense's CEO Weighs In On Open Development

The ApacheCon conference, which marked the 10th anniversary of the Apache Software Foundatoin, wrapped up a few days ago, and there were lots of highlights, including recognition from California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Oakland, California mayor Ron Dellums. In conjunction with the big event, we ran a series of guest posts from key players at the foundation, found here, here, and here. For our final guest post in the ApacheCon series, Gianugo Rabellino, CEO of Sourcesense (a leading open source integrator in Europe, and agile computing consultancy) weighs in on open development. Here it is, below the fold.


Google Provides Closure: Releases Open Source JavaScript Optimizer

JavaScript programmers, rejoice! It's been a good week for open source from big companies. Earlier this week Yahoo! released its Traffic Server it acquired from Inktomi, and now Google has unleashed Closure Tools. These are part of the toolset that Google uses to create JavaScript-heavy applications like Google Docs, Gmail, and Google Maps.



Live from ApacheCon: Subversion Joins ASF

The Apache Software Foundation is celebrating 10 years since its incorporation, and so we're partying like it's 1999 here at ApacheCon. By which I mean ApacheCon has remained true to its roots with a community-driven feel that seemed more common in the Open Source events of 10 years ago.

The big news today is that the Subversion project is joining the Apache Software Foundation. To mark the announcement, representatives from the Apache Software Foundation, the Subversion Project and CollabNet held a joint press conference at the downtown Oakland Marriott in a cozy, if poorly ventilated, hotel conference room. Read on for more details, as well as news about Git repositories and comparing the ASF to the new Codeplex Foundation.