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The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) plans to open source a suite of programs that it developed for administrative tasks. The agency has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) to help release the source code of the programs.
The set of 50 programs, collectively called the [...]

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Cisco Systems’ much-publicized push into the server business counts Red Hat among its supporters – a move that could offer another path for Red Hat’s software into corporate data centers.
Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO), the San Jose tech giant, said Monday that plans to sell servers for data centers, the locations that house big companies’ [...]

Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL)’s chief Linux technologist, Wim Coekaerts, said Oracle is making an important contribution to Linux reliability by extensively testing the Oracle database system on the open source operating system. And he has some free advice for competitor Red Hat (NYSE: RHT).
Oracle reports all bugs it finds and bug fixes that it makes to [...]

Face it: You want to launch your own Google and get your hands on some of that (easy?) internet money. Well, now’s your chance to take a stab at it.
Today, a startup called Cloudera is launching a commercial distribution of the Google-inspired open source Hadoop software underpinning Yahoo, Facebook, and a number of other hot-shot [...]

India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claims that it can save cash for the country if it adopts Open Source standards and software.
The BJP’s policy is remarkably similar to calls by other opposition groups in other countries who are looking for ways to save cash. There is also a backlash in many other countries over [...]

A forthcoming conference will highlight the potential cost savings local authorities could make by switching to open source software.
The UK’s first national conference on open source software in local government is taking place on 1st April 2009 in Manchester.
The conference provide a forum for councils to learn from other local authorities who are now experiencing [...]

A February survey of IT managers by IDC indicated that hard times are accelerating the adoption of Linux. The open source operating system will emerge from the recession in a stronger data center position than before, concluded an IDC white paper.
Sixty-five percent of the 330 respondents said they plan to increase Linux server workloads by [...]

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Cloudera is the quintessential Silicon Valley story.
Three of the top engineers from Google, Yahoo and Facebook have teamed up with an ex-Oracle executive to tackle the problems inherent in quickly analyzing big piles of data. On Monday, they’re revealing a commercial product based on the open source software Hadoop, which provides the analytical [...]

India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Saturday ahead of parliamentary elections in the country that the national government will standardize on open standards and open source software if the party is elected to power.
The BJP is a leading opposition party in India’s parliament, and is using online advertising and its own Web site as key [...]

Microsoft and the Creative Commons turned up at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference and released an Ontology Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007 so authors can add scientific hyperlinks as semantic annotations, drawn from ontologies, to their documents and research papers.
Ontologies are shared vocabularies created and maintained by different academic domains to model their fields [...]