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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.
OpenOffice.org, the open source office suite originally derived from Sun's corresponding StarOffice product, is out with the first public beta of version 3.0.
While the new features are not revolutionary, this is a solid release that's plenty good enough for many users to adapt as their primary office suite. There is definitely good news for Mac users.
Despite the occasional brush with critics in the open source community, Sun continues to maintain that it will ship all of its software assets as open source (though in some cases the timeframes are not clear).
One of the prominent areas where the company is following through on this at the moment is with its storage offerings.
A recent interview with Sun's Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green (published yesterday in eWeek) makes for fascinating reading, especially in conjunction with the dustup over Sun's announcement that some MySQL enhancements will not be open-sourced.
Understanding how Sun views open source goes a long way toward explaining what's going on, and telegraphing its future strategy.
For many years, MySQL has been the best-known open-source relational database. Sun bought it and the company earlier this year, leading many to wonder what the business strategy would be. This week, the CEO of MySQL revealed part of that strategy -- the introduction of proprietary add-ons that will only be distributed to commercial customers.
Reaction in the open-source world has been quite negative. What does this shift mean for MySQL?
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....
Heard on OStatic...
Open Source Telecom, Time to Embrace Web Economics
Wikifying Your Free Software Project
AOL Aims for More Openness, with a Catch
Sun and MySQL: A Long-TimerοΎs Take
Does Open Source Need its Own Social Network?
Recession: A Boon for Open Source?
Sun continues to support open source by putting its money where its mouth is, in ways both large and small. You may have missed it in all the clamor about their $1 billion purchase of MySQL, but this past week Sun also made some moves to lend support to the Python-on-Java project Jython.
How so? They did this by hiring ex-Chander developer Ted Leung and Jython maintainer Frank Wierzbicki to work full-time on dynamic languages at Sun.
