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OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Awards are on their way for top contributions to open source. Google and O'Reilly are calling for nominations for 2008 open source awards.....Would a synchronized release schedule benefit Linux distros and open source in general?.....Windows or open source is not even the question....Second open source HD movie set for release in May.....



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Sun CEO Schwartz Champions Open Source at Web 2.0

Sun Microsystems' CEO Jonathan Schwartz took the stage at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco on Friday, and OStatic staff was on hand. Sun, of course, has aggressively embraced open source software in its post-Scott McNealy period, as evidenced by its $1 billion acquisition of MySQL.

Schwartz discussed ongoing open source efforts at Sun, current work being done with Linus Torvalds, MySQL, and even the future of blogging at the conference.

 



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OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Wavemaker Technologies, which makes open source tools for web developers, has received $4.5 million in VC funding.....A report asserting that open source software is costing software companies $60 billion a year in lost revenues is drawing skepticism.....Are the iPhone SDK and porting or developing open source software with it a match?.....Linux.com has an interesting report on running Windows and Linux without virtualization.....Is Comcast's Bill of Rights for file sharing necessary in the open source world?.....Is an open source newspaper, where readers pick the content, a good idea?.....



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Open Source vs. Microsoft in the Enterprise

One of the latest reports from Forrester, Enterprise Desktop and Web 2.0/SAAS Platform Trends, 2007 is starting to make its way around media outlets on the web. The Forrester folks tracked software trends in major categories across 50,000 users month-by-month, and now their conclusions are out. Depending on how you look at it, they're either good or bad for open source.


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