Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category

Live blogging from CommunityOne

JavaOne officially starts tomorrow but today Sun has kicked off CommunityOne. Which is a more open source focused and free conference that precedes the bigger event.
The main theme this year is cloud computing. The presentation today has been about showing several vendor solutions in the areas of virtualization and large scale application deployment that is [...]

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Oracle buys Sun (not THE Sun)!

At one point it was Apple, then IBM was supposed to be it more than a couple of times, well the buyer of Sun ends up being Oracle and I think this is a good thing.
First of all (and related to that panel from Watchmen), I was getting a little anxious about all this merger [...]

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Organic Software

An article on treehugger has an interview with Paul Kim, VP of marketing for the Mozilla Corporation. The Mozilla marketing folks have decided to coin the term “organic software” in order to raise awareness of some of the other benefits of Mozilla besides its list of features.
Here is Paul’s rationale for using this term:

PK: I [...]

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