VMware confirms Zimbra buy. Facebook sponsors Apache Foundation. And more.
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# VMware confirmed its acquisition of Zimbra from Yahoo.
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Join us for this informative Italian technical webinar with
Gabriele Columbro at Alfresco Software and me at MySQL.
We will explore the benefits of an open source Collaborative
Content Management stack based on Alfresco and MySQL.
This webinar describes how Alfresco Share offers a great
experience for team collaboration and will detail use case
examples of organisation who have adopted Alfresco Share as a
collaboration platform for coordinating with distributed teams,
clients and business partners.
Alfresco delivers the collaborative features of SharePoint but
runs on an open source stack and comes embedded MySQL as the
default database. MySQL is the world's most popular open source
database at the heart of many Enterprise Content Management
solutions.
The presentation will be approximately 45 minutes long followed
by Q&A. Register …
Eclipse adds OSGi server. VMware-Zimbra deal due today? And more.
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# VMware’s SpringSource proposed that its dm Server OSGi-based app server become an Eclipse.org community project, while SAP proposed the Graphiti project.
# All …
[Read more]Shuttleworth steps down as Canonical CEO. Open source at SAP. And more.
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# Mark Shuttleworth explained why he is stepping down as CEO of Canonical.
# Groklaw published The EU and Microsoft Settle Browser Issue; Interoperability with FOSS Still a Problem. …
[Read more]Sun updates Java platform. Red Hat open sources SPICE. And more.
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# Sun has released Java Platform EE 6, Glassfish 3, and NetBeans 6.8.
# Red Hat released its …
[Read more]Eben Moglen says EC case against Oracle-Sun is flawed. The value of open source. And more.
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# Eben Moglen told the EC he does not see threat to competition from Oracle-Sun, says EC’s objections are flawed. A statement from the SFLC is …
[Read more]Patents. M&A. Adoption. Business strategies. And more.
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Patents
# Red Hat urged
the Supreme Court to to make clear that it excludes software from
patentability, while the SFLC and the FSF also filed briefs with the US Supreme Court
arguing against software patents.
Investment and M&A
# The WSJ …
Citrix joins the Linux Foundation. BonitaSoft raises $3m. And more.
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# Citrix joined The Linux Foundation.
# Open source BPM vendor BonitaSoft raised $3m from Ventech and Auriga Partners.
# Jaspersoft updated JasperReports Professional with enhanced data visualization.
# US CIO Vivek Kundra outlined the government’s cloud strategy, using NASA’s open source Nebula cloud.
# Infobright …
[Read more]When open source goes bad. Is open source a success or failure? And more.
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When open source goes bad
The H reported
on the apparent turmoil at the CentOS project, while Jay Lyman
offered the CAOS perspective. Meanwhile
Slashdot reported that Alan Cox has quit as Linux TTY
subsystem maintainer.
Success or failure?
Danny Windham, Digium CEO, …
Intuit launches open source project. SFLC on Microsoft GPL violation accusations.
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# Intuit launched open source projects and community to develop apps based on its Intuit Partner Platform, while Savio Rodrigues declared Intuit’s open source play is all business.
# SFLC’s Bradley Kuhn told SDTimes Microsoft was in violation of the GPL.
# MySQL and Memcached-based appliance vendor Schooner Info Tech has raised $20m in Series B funding.
# …
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