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OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

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.....



Web 2.0 Conference: Lots of News for Open Sourcers

The big tech conference this week is Web 2.0, going on now in San Francisco. There is a lot of meaningful news coming out of the conference, much of it directly impacting open source and some of it peripherally impacting it. Bungee Labs is looking to open source to expand its hosting options, Microsoft's Live Mesh announcement is getting lots of attention, Forrester Research is predicting big things for Web 2.0 technologies, and more.

We've rounded up the news here, and we'll keep it coming from the conference this week.

 



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

eWeek has a good interview with Ubuntu guru and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth, who claims Microsoft is fracturing the open source community.....

Asus' Eee PC is the most popular laptop featuring an open source OS. The company will share its development experience at the Taiwan Open Source Summit.....

Microsoft and Novell are expanding their open source initiatives into China.....

The head of Sun Microsystems' database division says MySQL will remain an open source product.....



More Open Source TLC from Microsoft's Ray Ozzie

Many news outlets are hyping Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's comments on open source Thursday at the Most Valuable Professional Summit in Seattle. As I thought was true when Senior Vice President, Corporate Secretary and General Counsel Brad Smith wooed the open source community at OSBC in San Francisco, much of this looks to be PR due to the company's proposed acquisition of Yahoo. That looks like why the top executives--Ballmer, Ozzie, Smith--keep whispering sweet nothings about open source. Still, ever since his days at Lotus and Groove Networks, Ozzie has really known software, and almost always has something interesting to say. He did on Thursday.


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

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.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Microsoft's Sam Ramji, previously the director of the company's open source lab, has been promoted and will now be running the company's worldwide open source and Linux team. Ramji is respected by many in the OSS community for introducing more openness at Microsoft.....ZDNet has an amusing piece on The Open Source Commandments.....Could an open source mashup help national health agencies and governments interoperate for better healthcare? A specialist is on the case.....To what extent does Al Jazeera depend on open source?.....



Linux and OSS Keep Stirring Up the Sub-Notebook Market

News is swirling this week about new forms of competition in the market for sub-notebook computers, and open source is driving change in this space--especially in terms of price competition. As I wrote before, Linux-based laptops are going through a renaissance at the moment, especially driven by the $400 Asus Eee PC. These small, useful systems are moving from the VIA chips they were based on to Intel's Diamondville CPUs. Everex's $399 Linux-based Cloudbook laptops are also generating buzz. Now, Hewlett-Packard has a new entrant in the space, with its diminutive Mini-Note, aimed at shoolchildren.


OStatic Buffer Overflow......

It's official. The ISO has approved Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) as an international standard, after much controversy--analysis above.....

ZDNet has a good post on Gartner researchers' preview of an upcoming report on open source, which claims that by 2013 Linux deployments won't save the money they do now.....

Zoto, a well-liked photo sharing site with AJAX and social features, has its code base up on Google Code.....