October 11, 2010
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Oracle and IBM announced on Oct. 11 that the companies will collaborate on the OpenJDK reference implementation. OpenJDK is an open-source implementation (most of it under the GPLv2) of Java Standard Edition (SE) 6. In a press conference, IBM and … Continue reading
October 4, 2010
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It’s not that Oracle wishes ill of The Document Foundation and its take on OpenOffice, LibreOffice. Oracle just isn’t going to be having anything to do with it. When The Document Foundation released the beta of LibreOffice, the group wanted … Continue reading
September 29, 2010
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Many people are assuming the Document Foundation’s LibreOffice is an OpenOffice fork. It’s not. Not yet anyway. I agree with almost everyone that it’s highly unlikely that Oracle will join up, although it is possible. Oracle has very little interest … Continue reading
September 28, 2010
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After Firefox, OpenOffice may be open-source software’s greatest desktop success story. For years though OpenOffice has stagnated. While under Sun’s management, OpenOffice got off to a great start, the program hasn’t been doing much of anything lately. That may be … Continue reading
September 23, 2010
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There’s no doubt about it. VMware wants to buy Novell’s SUSE Linux and open-source divisions. But, according to a Reuters report, Novell’s board really wants to sell NetWare and the identity management divisions at the same time, and no one … Continue reading
September 22, 2010
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A few months back Glyn Moody, noted open-source journalist, asked the question, "Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies?" Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat‘s CEO answered, "Red Hat could get to $5 billion in due course, but that this entailed ‘replacing $50 … Continue reading