HP, with other pro-open-source companies and organizations, is releasing programs and policies to help enterprises track corporate open-source use. After a soft-launch in December, Hewlett-Packard on Jan. 23 officially released a pair of new open-source initiatives to help businesses and developers track their free and open-source software programs and licenses: FOSSology and FOSSBazaar. HP is [...]
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HP Offers Open-Source Tracking Tools
January 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Development · LAMP · Linux
Samba gains legal access to Microsoft network file protocols
December 21st, 2007 · Comments Off
On Dec. 20, the Samba Group and the Software Freedom Law Center announced a deal with Microsoft that places all of Microsoft’s network protocols needed for programs to work with Windows Server into the hands of the newly formed Protocol Freedom Information Foundation. The PFIF is a U.S.-based nonprofit corporation. It will make Microsoft’s server [...]
Tags: Development · LAMP · Linux · Microsoft · Network · Open Source · Samba · Server · Standards · Windows
Red Hat Nets JBoss
April 10th, 2006 · Comments Off
Red Hat, the leading Linux distributor, announced on April 10, 2006 that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire open-source Java middleware company JBoss. JBoss has been rumored to be on the acquisition block for months. Earlier this year there was much speculation that Oracle was going to acquire the Atlanta-based JBoss, but [...]
