Scientists are pondering an idea of adding lime to seawater to reduce CO2 levels. The open source collaboration model is being used to flesh out the idea. READ MORE

I was browsing the web on this lazy Sunday afternoon and ran across a good article on the Rarest Words blog. The author was trying to get Django installed and running with Postgres. From the author's own admissions, he is not a Postgres fanatic.

Well, this and last year I hear everywhere that PostgreSQL is the way to go and that usage of mySQL in 2008 makes people puke… But without any real arguments (besides "Postgres is the way to go").

After some not so compatible errors with these not so compatible databases, the author did get it working and ran some benchmarks. Postgres did not turn out faster than MySQL. If you ask anyone in the Postgres community which database is faster, they will say Postgres. Ask anyone in the MySQL community and there's no telling what …

Cost savings drive adoption in new web-based apps READ MORE

How did two vulnerabilities in the widely used Spring Framework remain hidden for so long? And what are the security implications for single-vendor-driven open source projects? READ MORE

Open source Marketcetera Trading Platform allows hedge funds and trading institutions to maximize control and minimize cost READ MORE

Very cool OSS project for tracking and recovering your lost or stolen laptop. It?s a project from the University of Washington. This app sounds like a great way to address the 12,000 laptops lost per week at US airports. The UW website states: "Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go ? there's no need to rely on a single third party. What's more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal... READ MORE

As Sun's market cap continues to decline, is a merger or acquisition with Fujitsu or HP in the cards? READ MORE

VMWare announced that their 2008 revenue growth outlook would be "modestly below" its earlier stated target of 50% and that CEO and founder Diane Greene would be resigning immediately. That double whammy sent VMWare stock tumbling by more than 25%. VMWare appears to have increased competition, not only from Microsoft's recently released near final Hyper-V technology, but also from open source variants from Red Hat, Citrix, Sun and others based on the Xen hypervisor virtual machine monitor. All of these choices are pretty much free, which will be a tough price for VMWare to match. In an odd twist of... READ MORE

I didn't have a chance yet to write about this due to some recent travel, but better late than never. About 10 days ago, Nokia acquired the remaining 52% of Symbian that they didn't already own for a cool $410 million. Nokia also announced that they would open source all of the Symbian code. This follows on Nokia's earlier acquisition this year of Trolltech, the open source GUI toolkit developer, for $153 million. For those not familiar with it, Symbian is a platform created jointly between Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola and Psion ten years ago. (Symbian evolved from the EPOC platform... READ MORE

Via Luis Vila's blog: Stormy Peters has taken a new role at the GNOME foundation. With Stormy gone, who will convince Rod & SpringSource to join the newly announced OpenLogic's Partner Program? ;-) Best wishes to Stormy in her new role. PS: I should state: "The postings on this site are my own and don?t necessarily represent IBM?s positions, strategies or opinions."... READ MORE