Posts Tagged ‘technology’

Will Microsoft Crumble In The New Era Of Tech Threats?

Recently, numerous posts have been found on the web heralding the end of Microsoft, in a world where cloud-based initiatives are gaining traction, and Microsoft is seen as not grokking the cloud. One of the more visible of these arguments came from Marc Benioff , Salesforce.com’s outspoken chairman and CEO, who was previously a top executive at Oracle

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Will Microsoft Crumble In The New Era Of Tech Threats?

Open Source: Technology and Policy


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The open source movement is a worldwide effort to promote an open style of software development more aligned with the accepted intellectual style of science than the proprietary modes of invention that have been characteristic of modern business. The idea is to keep the scientific advances created by software development openly available for everyone to use, understand, and improve. The very process of open source creation is highly transparent. This book addres… More >>
Open Source: Technology and Policy

Xen Cut from RHEL 6

Red Hat pushed out a beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 this week with a long list of new features, and one that didn’t make the cut: Xen.

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Xen Cut from RHEL 6

Pentaho Secures $7 Million in Funding, Looks Toward the Future

Open source business intelligence (BI) software vendor Pentaho has raised a cool $7 million in fourth-round funding, bringing it’s total funding to around $32 million.

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Pentaho Secures $7 Million in Funding, Looks Toward the Future

Free Online Journal Targets The FOSS Legal Community

Recently, we covered a number of legal resources that can help keep open source projects and developers out of harm’s way. From new types of licenses to free guides online, the number of legal tools specific to FOSS is growing, and now, lawyers focused on open source joining forces online. As Luis Villa, a lawyer at the Mozilla Corporation notes in a blog post , there is even now a journal focused on open source law called International Free and Open Source Software Law Review

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Free Online Journal Targets The FOSS Legal Community