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Controlling Liquor Loss with Linux
The Replay Lounge in Lawrence, Kansas, ranked number 64 on Esquire's Best Bars in America 2011 list and landed spot number 31 on Complex Magazine's 2010 list of the 50 best college bars in America. Read more
Without It's Own Horse HTC Could Be On The Sidelines
The mobile device market is a brutal place where only the very strongest survive. If you don't have your own horse in the race, you can easily go from first to back in the pack pretty quickly. Now it looks like one time industry darling, HTC may be one of the first casualties of the Google-Motorola Mobility merger. Read more
DataBase As A Service With Support
It seems like everything IT is being consumed as-a-Service (aaS) these days. So it should not be shocking that DBaaS, Database-as-a-Service is now available too. EnterpriseDB, the company that has built a business supporting the PostgreSQL database announced last week that is now offering DBaaS through the Amazon Cloud.
The idea is to offer almost "instant on" easy database to anyone who desires it. From the announcement: Read more
Google Summer of Code 2012 Announced
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an international program that pairs students with mentors and mentoring organizations. Students receive a stipend to write code and contribute to open source projects during their participation in the program. Read more
NYSE Takes Stock of Open Source CMS
Few global organizations can match the size, scale and importance of NYSE Euronext. (NYX). The leading global operator of financial markets, NYSE Euronext's markets represent fully one third of the entire world's equities trading-and the company is a major player in derivatives and technology services. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index and Fortune 500. Read more
Is Security An Afterthought For NoSQL?
There has been a not so silent debate going on in the security world about the security profile of the NoSQL database products. Read more
Meet the Gentlemen Behind Gentlemint
You might be surprised by how many high tech happenings we see in Lawrence, Kansas. For example, does the Django web framework ring a bell? A new quirky site, Gentlemint — a masculine response to Pinterest — recently went live. Read more
Sourcefire Stays True To Its Roots
Sourcefire is a security company that had its genesis in founder Marty Roesch's Snort open source intrusion detection system. Along the way Sourcefire has taken over the stewardship and introduced several other open source projects. One of the best known was the ClamAV anti-malware project. Read more
Work-for-Hire in an Open Source Enabled World
Some time ago, I worked for a consulting services company that assembled solutions for their clients using open source licensed software as the building blocks. Clients needed education, however, when it came time to understand who owned the resultant work. Historically, in a from scratch world, all the newly written software was owned by the client as a “work for hire.” If the solution was built up around proprietary products, appropriate licenses were needed. It doesn’t quite work tha Read more
Google App Inventor Resurrected as Open Source Project
MIT annouces that Google's App Inventor is now open source, although contributions to the code will not be accepted until the MIT Center of Mobile Learning opens their App Inventor server to the public. "We hope to nurture a robust and active open-source project eventually, but for now we don't want to distract the MIT developers from their efforts to complete and deploy the large-scale public server," the announcement says. Read more
What Does 2012 Bring For Hadoop, Big Data and MapR?
Big Data continues to be a big story in 2012. There are multiple companies with multiple distributions of Hadoop competing for market share. What does 2012 have in store for these companies? What about the whispers around security and Big Data? Will Big Data move firmly to the enterprise in 2012? Read more
Measuring Open Source Success
Woz on smartphones: Wishes his iPhone could do all his Android can
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is a big fan of smartphones running Google's Android OS . . . and in some ways finds them superior to mobile phones running iOS. "My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. Read more
MLK and Open Source: 2 Degrees of Separation
On Tuesday evening, my teen daughter and I had some quality bonding time over milkshakes and the first season of Star Trek, which was timely considering the conversation I'd have the next day with a couple of NASA employees. Read more
Apache License Without The Apache Consensus
Last week I wrote about CouchDB founder and Couchbase developer Damien Katz announcing that he and his team would be concentrating on CouchBase Server and not CouchDB going forward. In his blog post explaining why Katz mentioned that while the Apache Foundation was a great place to start CouchDB, he found that consensus based, community approach did not fit his and his companies needs now. Read more
In The Browser War Does The Tortoise Beat The Hare?
OpenStack Continues Momentum As AT&T Signs On
OpenStack, the open source cloud architecture created by Rackspace and NASA (is there a more open source friendly US Government agency?), officially picked up another major supporter yesterday when Ma Bell herself, AT&T officially joined the project. AT&T becomes the first major US telecom provider to join the project, which already boasts over 140 corporate members. Read more
When Open Source Doesn't Do It Anymore
CouchDB and CouchOne founder Damien Katz has created a stir with his announcement that he and most of his team will be moving away from continuing to develop the Apache CouchDB NoSQL database and focusing extensively on the more commercially suited Couchbase Server 2.0. Read more
NASA Expands Open Source Activities
In a blog post, William Eshagh, a technologist working on Open Government and the Nebula Cloud Computing Platform out of the NASA Ames Research Center, explains: Read more
Kicking Back with Clementine 1.0
My daughter and I recently got new iPhones, which means she now has her first smart phone and I'm not currently using my Android phone. She also scored a new iPod Touch over the holidays, and we both scored some iTunes gift cards. As long as we're just using Apple products and services, we're golden. The trouble starts when we want to enjoy our music on — or update our devices from — our Linux laptops. Read more
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