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Recently, 15 executives at open source companies sent a letter lobbying the Obama Administration to consider open source solutions. The letter, signed by executives at companies like MuleSource, Compiere, OpenLogic, and Unisys, espoused belief that “the open-source industry is changing the world of software in many of the ways [Obama has] promised to changed American [...]

Bloomberg has been rooting around the historical quotes of Christine Varney, Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s antitrust division, and found a doozy from eight months ago calling Google a “monopoly in Internet online advertising” that could spell trouble for the US economy.
What’s more she said that Google’s gathering market power in cloud [...]

At this year’s GSMA Mobile World Congress, 3 ½ hours were devoted to the topic of “Mobilizing Open Source”, which was no doubt spurred in part by the increasing attention Google’s open-source mobile operating system, Android, has drawn. While open-source products have, for the most part, been pushed into a corner and untouched in the [...]

Red Hat and Microsoft, about as virulent a pair of enemies as has ever existed, threw a leash over their fire-breathing dragons long enough on Monday to announce a cooperative pact forced on them by their mutual users – folks who may be holding back from committing to virtualization ahead of a truce.
The companies say [...]

With the goal of speeding service creation for telecom service providers in a converged IP network, CIMI Corporation has completed the Alpha-One prototype of its ExperiaSphere open source next-generation network (NGN) services architecture and is demonstrating it to telecom service providers and equipment vendors. Extreme Networks,the project’s first open partner, is providing technical support and [...]

Not too long back, I shared my thoughts with you on how there seems to be a real disconnect with US schools and desktop Linux. Differences of opinion were exchanged in the comments area of the article and I gained some new insight along the way.
The point that was driven home to me the most, [...]

I was recently at a conference on virtualization, but one comment by one of the presenters attracted my interest. He noted that one of the big drivers towards open source use in business took place after the dot com bust nine years ago. When the dot com balloon burst, companies needed less expensive ways to [...]

The big news from the GSMA Mobile World Congress this year: New phones using the Android, LiMo and Symbian open-source operating systems are rolling out in 2009.
What’s unusual is that it is not the handsets themselves that are creating the buzz so much as what is under the hood and invisible to the user, the [...]

The manner in which open source tools are developed lends a level of security assurance to the applications that are built on this model, said Sun Microsystems executives.
Roman Tuma, Asia South software practice managing director at Sun, noted that due to the inherent nature of open source, anyone can review the source codes to look [...]

Four years after it was launched, SugarCRM now counts 4,000 customers of its commercial open source software. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company recently held its annual SugarCon conference for customers and developers. We caught up with CEO John Roberts, who discussed how SugarCRM is approaching cloud computing and open source applications in the cloud, mobile CRM, [...]