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OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

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On the heels of our prediction, open source Java is quickly heading into Linux distros. Sun Microsystems, Canonical and Red Hat have announced the inclusion of OpenJDK-based implementations in Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support Server and Desktop editions.....Microsoft is using open source to extend systems management to Linux.....Sun Microsystems' chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, discusses his company's move to 100 percent open source software development.....Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth weighs in on MicroHoo.....



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Sun CEO Schwartz Champions Open Source at Web 2.0

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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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What Hurts Them Helps Us: How Open Source Benefits from the Bad

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I noted today that Argentina may become the first country in the world to require all government offices to use open source software. The nation's congress is evaluating a bill to mandate that. This follows several other proposed mandates to get entire governments, or large branches, to go open source. The U.S. Navy has announced an open standards only initiative, Australia is seeking to break U.S. software lock-in with open source, and more. In Argentina's case, the prompt toward open source is driven by rampant piracy. And there's the rub: Just as a recession may bode very well for open source, negative trends in the software industry and in the economy can be big boosts for OSS.


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OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

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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....



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