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Web 2.0 Summit: Open Source software borrows back from the open API Web, 11/13/06
Web sites, companies with server software roots, and open source developers are converging on new ideas for business IT that blur the lines between APIs, services and software products.
GPL Java to smooth business app integration: developers, 11/13/06
Java’s new GPL status has the potential to smooth over the awkward gaps between Java business applications and mainstream Linux distributions and tools.
This week’s Linux news
IBM aims to ease Linux, grid deployments, 11/16/06
IBM continues to roll out packaged services designed to make it easier for companies to deploy the latest technologies, including grid computing and Linux.
Egenera tucks Xen into management platform, 11/15/06
Egenera is partnering with XenSource to tuck the open source Xen hypervisor into the management software it uses to group its blade servers into a pool of compute resources in which application workloads are shifted according to business demands.
Public sector to drive open-source takeup in Germany, 11/15/06
Germany’s cash-strapped public sector will be the driving force behind the takeup of open-source software in the country as state-run organizations strive to lower their IT costs, according to a study released Wednesday by the Fraunhofer Institute.
Kernel Space: Sparse gets a maintainer, 11/14/06
One of Linux’s secret weapons is a little-known code analysis tool called “sparse”. It’s been smoking out kernel bugs for years, but only recently had its first release.
Open source start-up launches network management software, 11/14/06
Start-up Zenoss today made available an updated version of its free open source network and systems monitoring software that the company says now includes enterprise-ready features and support packages.
Start-up Evergrid enters virtualization fray, 11/14/06
Evergrid, a start-up coming out of stealth mode this week, is promising mainframe-like reliability for applications running on clusters of commodity Linux servers.
AlterPoint spins out free network management software, 11/14/06
AlterPoint Tuesday launched its ZipTie open source project that the company says will make sophisticated network change and configuration management technologies available for free.
Sun open sources Java under GPL, 11/13/06
It’s no surprise that Sun is making its core Java platform freely available; what is somewhat unexpected is the vendor’s choice of open source license.
Sun CEO: Open source Java is ‘momentous’, 11/13/06
Sun Microsystems’s offering of the Java platform via open source under the GNU General Public License is a “momentous” change, said Sun President/CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Monday. But IBM wants the Apache Software Foundation in charge of Java.
Open source directions: IBM’s Bob Sutor on best practices, 11/13/06
Bob Sutor, vice president of open source and standards at IBM, sat down with Network World Senior Editor Deni Connor to discuss the relationship between intellectual property and open source.
Sun is considering GPL for OpenSolaris, 11/13/06
Sun confirmed Monday that it’s open sourcing its Java SE and Java ME under the GNU general public license, so will Sun look to use the GPL for other offerings it has already open sourced, including the OpenSolaris version of its operating system?
Start-up Securent aims at ‘entitlement management’, 11/13/06
Start-up Securent makes its debut this week with enterprise middleware for policy-based user authorization and enforcement, an area of provisioning known as entitlement management.
Samba slams ‘unacceptable’ Novell-Microsoft deal, 11/13/06
Samba developers have slammed the Microsoft-Novell deal reached earlier this month, calling it “unacceptable” and warning that it may cause significant damage to the open source community.
Software patent ignites firestorm in higher education, 11/10/06
A firestorm of controversy is spreading in the education community over attempts by key software vendor Blackboard to enforce its patent claims.
LinuxWorld Community
With all the brouhaha over software patents, you’d think someone would actually read them. Our LinuxWorld community blogger JP Rangaswami digs up an example where that wasn’t the case.
And, following up on last week’s OpenID article, our contributor Evan Prodromou sends in a list of sites that you can use to try out OpenID.
