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LinkedIn and MySpace Bet On Lucene Open Source Search

As Matt Asay reports, the LinkedIn social network has just upgraded its people search features, based on the open source search project Lucene. And, as Ars Technica discussed in June, MySpace recently updated its search features using Lucene as well --including making contributions to Lucene. OStatic's own search features are powered by Lucene, and many leaders of web sites, blogs and web applications should look into this extremely powerful open source information retrieval engine.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Bruce Perens: Microsoft and Apache--what's the angle?.....

Firefox closer to supporting open source video codec.....

Microsoft to Mac users: Use Firefox, not Safari.....

Fortify answers critics of its recent study on open source security.....

In India's crowded streets, plans are underway for an open source-controlled traffic monitoring system.....



NewTeeVee: Early YouTube Engineer Tells All

Ever wonder how YouTube got started and scaled up to being such a huge repository of video? There are quite a few surprises in the story, as you'll see if you check in on NewTeeVee's post Early YouTube Engineer Tells All. It features video of Cuong Do, an early software engineer at YouTube who is now a manager in the site's engineering group. Open sourcers will be particularly interested in how YouTube employs memcached and Apache along its chain of under-the-hood applications. Check it out.


SpringSource Gets $15 Million in Series B Funding

SpringSource, a provider of Java infrastructure software and the overseer of infrastructure technologies from the Apache Software Foundation, has just received $15 million in Series B funding. The round of venture capital financing was led by Accel Partners, and Benchmark Capital, the lead investor in SpringSourceﾒs first financing round, also chipped in. In January, SpringSource acquired enterprise open source player Covalent Technologies, which put Apache Tomcat application server and other open source applications under SpringSource's wing.


Visualizing Open Source Application Evolution

If you've ever sat back and tried to visualize how all the global commitments to various open source projects look--a picture of sharing done on the grand scale--a U.C. Davis web site is now serving these views up in video format. I've been studying software projects for a while now, says the site author, who is identified on Slashdot as a U.C. Davis student. Not the programming, but the people -- the way they interact with each other through collaboration and communication. The videos are quite eye-catching and informative. Here's more.


Yahoo is the Reason for Microsoft's New Open Source Stance

It's not every day that a Microsoft executive as highly placed as senior vice president, corporate secretary and general counsel Brad Smith shows up at an open source conference, but he made an appearance at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco this week. I enjoyed the title of InfoWorld's summary of his visit: Microsot's Brad Smith Tries to Make Nice with Open Source Community.

Making nice was probably part of his motivation, but there's more to it. Especially after a huge fine from the EU, Microsoft needs to take concrete steps to work more closely with open sourcers. Also, people keep missing how Microsoft's proposed Yahoo deal would force it to embrace open source.



OSBC: Pundits Weigh in on Open Source

As the InfoWorld Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco gets underway this week, the tech publication is posting a series of interesting transcripts from roundtable discussions on open source topics. The roundtables include a number of well-known pundits, including CNet writer Matt Asay, Bruce Perens (credited by many as coining the term open source), Sam Ramji (senior director of platform technology at Microsoft), Zack Urlocker (vice president of products at MySQL) and many others. Much of the talk surrounds the trend toward commercialization of open source products.