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Funambol has enhanced its native open source wireless sync app for iPhone 2.0. The software is free and open source, unlike Apple's MobileMe service.....
New version of OpenOffice fixes critical bug.....
PCMag.com has a nice, step-by-step primer on dual-booting Linux and Windows XP on an Asus EeePC 900 laptop.....
Does Sun's SOA strategy really get open source?.....
Sun Microsystems is out with an answer to Adobe's AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight Rich Internet Application tools: JavaFX. At the JavaOne show in San Francisco today, Sun's head of software, Rich Green, discussed what to expect from the new offering. Green claims JavaFX will arrive on 91 percent of desktops, 85 percent of cell phones, and 100 percent of Blu-ray players--no small claims. While I'm not positive it will have that bright a future on so many platforms, Green showed JavaFX running on Google's Android mobile platform, which is Linux-based. Here, there could be promise.
SCO chief testifies: Linux is a copy of Unix.....Who is the open source big dog--Red Hat or Sun?.....A new report says more orginizations are jumping on open source, but price is not the only driver.....Are IP liabilities a hidden trap when deploying open source software?.....Should you consider Zimbra for your open source mail server?.....
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.....
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.
