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Cisco declares war, embraces open source. It has a new Unified Computing initiative, and although the technology is proprietary, open source software plays a role.

Intellectual property and open source. Read an excerpt from the award-winning book of the same name.

Apache's ongoing licensing bout with Sun. The recently updated Java Specification Requests (JSRs) show that a battle continues.

15 interesting facts about the Linux kernel. Only two percent was written by Linus Torvalds.

Could Cloudera become the open source Asia? Its talent pool runs deep.



rPath CTO and Founder Erik Troan on the Future of Open Source

The Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) is coming up, to be held March 24th and 25th at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The conference will include much discussion on the future of open source. In preparation, OStatic has been? running a series of guest posts on this theme, featuring thought leaders from top open source projects. We checked in with Dries Buytaert, founder of the Drupal content management system, and co-founder of Acquia. Martin Schneider, director of product marketing for SugarCRM, weighed in on the open cloud, and Novell VP Justin Steinman wrote about open source and mass customization. Brian Gentile, CEO of Jaspersoft, also discussed the consumerization of information. In this latest installment in the series, we have a guest post on the future of open source from Erik Troan, founder and CTO of rPath, which offers a platform for software vendors to create and maintain software appliances and virtual appliances in multiple virtual machine formats.


Acquia Gets New CEO, Extends Drupal Searches, and More

Acquia, which offers a commercially supported version of the open source Drupal content management system is out with a series of announcements today. The company has a new CEO, Tom Erickson, who was formerly CEO of Systinet, which he sold to Mercury Interactive. Acquia has also announced a public beta of Acquia Search, a hosted service, as well as cloud-based Drupal hosting, and Drupal stack installers for Windows and the Mac.


New Beta of Google Chrome Arrives, Plus Instructions for Extensions

Google is out with a beta version of the Chrome browser which adds quite a few new features. If you recall, Chrome officially came out of beta in December, but this post confirms that developers have been doing a lot of work to improve it. Google claims its 25 percent faster on V8 benchmark tests and 35 percent faster on Sunspider, so if you are looking for improved JavaScript speed, you may want to get the new beta. Here is more on the new features.



Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Subsidized Netbooks, Mobile TV Plans

We've written before about successful efforts to put Google's Linux-based Android operating system on netbooks, and E-Ink devices. Now, according to OSnews, Google CEO Eric Schmidt has backed up the idea that he is closely watching the netbook space, where ?Android-based netbooks are predicted to arrive soon. Schmidt also predicts that netbooks could be subsidized to allow for ultra-low buy-in costs. ?Additionally, Schmidt recently appeared on the Charlie Rose show on PBS, and discussed Google's plans to enter the mobile TV market. What does all this mean for Android?


The First U.S. CIO, Vivek Kundra: Bodes Well for Open Source

The web is abuzz with talk of the United States' first CIO, Vivek Kundra. Born in Delhi, India, raised in Tanzania, and a fluent Swahili speaker, Kundra has a very diverse background. He also makes no secret of his love for Google. and, as noted on Wikipedia, he has been recognized for his work in developing programs to spur open source and crowd sourced applications using publicly accessible Web services from the District of Columbia with an initiative called Apps for Democracy, which he created with iStrategyLabs. Is Vivek good news for open source?


Why is Android Stalled?

As predictions stacked up late last year on what would happen with Google's open source Android platform, many observers--including ourselves--saw rosy things ahead. After all, the T-Mobile G1 phone was a relative hit in a mobile tech environment that could seemingly talk about nothing but the iPhone. Android applications have also mostly been slick and useful, with a thriving application marketplace. So why isn't Android showing up on more devices and claiming its rightful place in the mobile tech space? Is Google listening?