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A startup called Rhomobile announced the first formal release of its dual-licensed, open-source framework for smartphones. Rhodes 1.0 enables “write-once” development, using HTML and Ruby, of native smartphone applications for iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and now Android, the company says.
Rhodes reduces development costs by “up to five times” by eliminating the need to develop [...]

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Microsoft is in the process of building out a marketplace for open-source applications that could work like an equivalent to an app store for applications, services and support for open-source technology that runs on the Windows platform.
At the Microsoft MIX09 conference here, Lauren Cooney, group product manager for Web Platform [...]

Danese Cooper, who spent more than three years as senior director of Intel’s open-source strategies, has taken a similar job at Revolution Computing, a start-up that’s commercializing the open-source R programming technology for data analysis.
Cooper, who took on the title of open-source diva at Sun Microsystems before her stint at Intel, plans to help Revolution [...]

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Well backed Silicon Valley start-up Cloudera has now released a free, private cloud-oriented distribution of a Linux software environment first built by major Web enterprises for “big data.”
“Hadoop offers capabilities for capturing, storing and analyzing data that are unmatched. But it’s something that enterprises have shied away from until now,” said Michael Olson, [...]

In an interesting turn of events, TomTom has countersued Microsoft for patent infringement.
Microsoft sued TomTom in February claiming the GPS device maker infringed on Microsoft’s patents. TomTom, obviously thinking that turnabout is fair play, has in turned leveled its own lawsuit against the software giant.
TomTom Countersues Microsoft for Patent Infringement

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The open source route has generated more money for Sun Microsystems than before, says its open source chief, and staying on this path will be central to the company’s growth strategy.
Sun made more money from Solaris today than it did four years ago after it moved the server platform to an open source [...]

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IBM’s chances of being a major player in the era of cloud computing would be enhanced by a merger with Sun, says BusinessWeek.
IBM can also afford the $6.5BN acquisition that is apparently being discussed since it has $13BN cash hoard, notes BW Senior writer Steve Hamm.
In his report published today, the day after [...]

The current economic downturn is set to drive Linux adoption, according to a white paper by research organization IDC.
In a survey of 330 organizations with 100 or more employees, IDC found that 53 percent were planning to increase adoption of Linux on servers, while 48 percent were planning to increase Linux on clients, as a [...]

With the pressure of the recession bearing down on companies, several industry experts expect adoption of open source software to grow, as a result.
Michael Barnes, VP of software and Asia-Pacific research, Springboard Research, told ZDNet Asia in an interview, there has been increased interest over the past three to four months in open source.
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As a next step in open source, the DoD is teaming up with the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) on a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) that will allow over 50 federal administration applications to be publicly distributed under an open source license.
In a presentation at John Hopkins University on Monday, DoD [...]