If its manufacturers can guarantee uninterrupted service, Linux could gain traction in the enterprise as a messaging platform within the next two years, according to a recent survey.
Three IT industry heavyweights, Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi, and NEC Corp., are releasing Reliable Messaging for Grid Services (RM4GS), an open-source implementation of the Web Services Reliability (WS-Reliability) standard.
ObjectWeb, the open-source infrastructure consortium, announced this week that it has added eXo Platform SARL to its roster. The privately held French company provides support and services for the eXo Platform, an open-source enterprise portal, which will now be hosted by ObjectWeb.
Sun Microsystems launched the much-anticipated new version of its Solaris operating system this week, and announced an overhauled pricing model designed to compete with Linux.
Well, maybe not yet. But what does the future hold for those who consider their source code an important proprietary asset?
Wikis are Web sites that anyone can edit. This seems like a recipe for disaster,
but in fact they can be surprisingly resilient.
IBM is donating some of its software for speech-enabling applications to two open-source organizations: the Apache Software Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation.
The extension of patent law to cover software raises great dangers for an industry that has become increasingly litigious over the past decade.
As Java coders make greater use of open-source tools, they need a way to organize and coordinate software downloads from the groups that make up the open-source community, argues Andy Grolnick, VP marketing at OpenLogic.
Microsoft continues to treat the GPL as anathema, even when to do otherwise
would benefit their customers.
With a new open source license and a million-dollar bounty, Computer Associates
is trying to push the Ingres database into the open source community. But I
wonder how well the pushing will work.
Is Open Source a good thing or not? Sun doesn't seem to be able to make
up its mind about that.
Declaring independence from technology lock-in sounds like a good idea. But is it actually a good idea?
I know they didn't plan it that way, but Microsoft's most recent Issues essay
couldn't have come out at a more unfortunate time.