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Funambol has raised $12.5 million in venture funding for its open-source mobile messaging software business. The company is also now partnered with AOL.....
Alfresco Software is in partnership with Adobe, and Adobe will embed Alfresco Enterprise Content Management (ECM) into the Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite. The companies are focused on enterprise applications that use open source and Web 2.0 standards.....
IBM says it has no plans to open source its DB2 database, after a published report quoted a company executive saying so.....
Forbes: The law goes open source.....
CIO.com on seven open source Mac apps worth looking into.....
The open source Songbird music player is out in a new version 0.6.....
Will IBM open source its DB2 database management software?.....
MooTools, a modular, object-oriented JavaScript framework, is out in a new version 1.2.....
The Obama campaign is looking for talented web developers who can build online tools for voter mobilization, grassroots fundraising, social networking and more. The credentials required and an application form are here.....
The free IBM Lotus Symphony Office suite of productivity applications is available for download, and IBM is offering free online support. ZDNet asks if we need two OSS office suites.....
Matt Asay's list of top open source Mac projects from Google.....
Nexaweb Technologies has announced the availability of dojo.E, software to allow users to more easily create enterprise web applications based on the Dojo Toolkit.....
Andy Patrizio, over at InternetNews.com, is trotting out that tired old question once again: where are the open source billionaires? as if that was somehow relevant or necessary for open source to be worthwhile. Patrizio also suggests that open source is being carried by large vendors, but doesn't seem to grasp the benefits that the vendors are getting out of open source.
By Nate D'Amico
For the Eclipse lovers out there, IBM has another free toy for you to experiment with. It's geared toward web application development, and is dubbed Project Zero. With Project Zero, IBM hopes to entice Java, PHP, and Groovy developers to use its platform for creating next generation web applications. Among the interesting aspects of Project Zero, developers are encouraged to compile PHP into Java classes to have it run in the same Java Virtual Machine (JVM) as the rest of Project Zero's Java code. The project leverages communities in ways that open sourcers will recognize.
In case you were wondering, Red Hat--fresh off a rosy earnings report that was interpreted by analysts as a welcoming present for new CEO Jim Whitehurst--won't deliver a desktop product for consumers anytime soon. In a news post at the company's site, team members write: We have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future.
While there has been much speculation that Red Hat might target the consumer desktop, I'm not surprised by this news. Why isn't the company delivering such a product? Because it doesn't need to.
Gartner is out with a new report that predicts that soon all businesses will use open source software--although there are some open source warnings too.....
Wired has an interesting item on supercharging Canon digital cameras using open source software.....
When asked about the future direction of Sun Microsystems, one of the company's new managing directors highlighted open source as a key focus.....
Dojo has stabilized and released a new version of its open source Ajax toolkit, backed by IBM, Sun and AOL....
Recently, I was talking to a tech journalist friend of mine who has been covering Microsoft since the company's inception. He made the point that nobody at Microsoft knows the whole code base of the Windows operating system anymore. Individuals once did, but the operating system is a big ball of code that no single developer knows from end to end.
That was the thought that came to mind when I saw the just-released survey on Linux Kernel Development from the Linux Foundation. The survey provides an exhaustive and fascinating glimpse at what it describes as one of the largest cooperative software projects ever attempted.
