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Sun Microsystems’ OpenSolaris 2008.11 includes improvements around software package management and incorporating community packaging efforts. The updates to the free Solaris-based OS shows that Sun will not follow IBM and HP in letting Linux take over the platform space once dominated by Unix.
OpenSolaris 2008.11, the second major release of Sun Microsystems’ freely-licensed, Solaris-based operating system, [...]

Entrepreneur Mark Gorton wants to do for people what he already helped do for files: move them from here to there in the most efficient way possible using open-source tools.
Gorton, whose LimeWire file sharing software for the open-source gnutella network was at the forefront of the P2P revolution nearly a decade ago, is taking profits [...]

Lack of governance is the biggest obstacle to enterprise Open Source implementations. Getting the projects under control is step one.
Open source deployments are becoming more pervasive as enterprise IT shops get more comfortable using the software. But open source can present challenges, and organizations would be wise to follow some best practices.
Taming the Wild Open [...]

The Defense Information Systems Agency launched a Defense Department Web site on Jan. 23 that programmers already have used to collaborate online for developing open-source software, delivering its first software package this week, DISA’s chief technology officer said on Friday.
The collaborative open source software development site, called Forge.mil (although the site has a .com domain), [...]

Remember back in 2008 when a teacher named “Karen” made a remark about using Linux holding her students back? The idea apparently being that students using Linux must somehow be participating in something that is illegal.
Later, apologies ensued despite new wounds on both sides of the issue being created. Seems to me that this is [...]

MIDs, or Mobile Internet Devices, have never been hotter, and there are two open-source handhelds slated to land this year that could very well win over quite a few consumers. GamePark’s GP2X Wiz, which will be hitting stores soon, looks to be a capable gaming unit as well as an open source machine, but it’s [...]

It’s not too hard to think up grandiose ideas to change the world, but very few people attempt to put them into effect – and even fewer succeed. Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman emeritus of MIT’s Media Lab, made the attempt with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, and he isn’t beaten yet.
OLPC is [...]

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) today announced that J.P. Morgan has transferred to ISDA its CDS Analytical Engine. The CDS analytical engine, originally developed by the Quantitative Research group at J.P. Morgan, is widely used in the industry to price CDS contracts. ISDA will make the analytical engine available as open [...]

Could the federal government be going open source? The BBC reports that President Obama has asked former Sun CEO Scott McNealy to report on the relative benefits of open source software. Imagine that: a president who has heard of open source software.
And McNealy will report just how large those benefits are.
It’s [...]

Details are scarce, unless Russian is your language of choice, but CNews is reporting that Russia plans to develop its own national operating system. The move is designed to reduce Russia’s need to rely on foreign software and licensing agreements. And the alleged “open code” solution, likely a Linux/GNU derivative, will give Russia a greater [...]