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Google's Sergey Brin Denies Chrome Is OS for Web Apps: Google co-founder Sergey Brin says the new Chrome Web browser is not the Web operating system many people see it as, but acknowledges it will get more robust through the open-source community under the Chromium project. Microsoft and other search engines and Web services providers must be wary about this evolution in application development. Google may be treading lightly with Chrome now, but the browser, combined with Google's search and Apps, could end up being a big threat to Microsoft Windows' market share.
- Despite attempts by reporters to goad Google into spiking Microsoft, Google co-founder Sergey Brin denied that Google views its new Chrome browser as an operating system for Web applications. quot;I would not call Chrome the operating system of Web apps, quot; Brin said after a demo of Chrome...
Enterprises Tap Open Source via Eclipse: Enterprise organizations are tapping the benefits not only of using open-source software, but of contributing to it by using the Eclipse model. The Eclipse Swordfish, Tigerstripe, Open Financial Market Platform and Open System Engineering Environment projects are all based on code contributed by enterprises that use open-source technology.
- As an indication that the open-source model is beginning to mature and move beyond just ISVs and into the enterprise, Eclipse Foundation leaders say a new trend in Eclipse indicates that enterprises are beginning to develop and contribute code to Eclipse projects. This means the promise and princip...
KDE Momentum Continues with New Updates, Features: The KDE community has released KDE 3.5.10, a maintenance release for the KDE 3.5 series of the popular Linux desktop. Meanwhile, KDE developers continue work on bringing service-oriented computing to KDE, as well as a new Amarok media player and enhanced Qt support. KDE also has adopted the Free Software Foundation Europe's Fiduciary License Agreement.
- The KDE Community has announced the availability of KDE 3.5.10, a maintenance release of KDE, the free desktop for GNU Linux and other Unix flavors. The KDE desktop is the system of choice for a broad array of Linux users. And although the KDE community released KDE 4.1 at the end of July, K...
Microsoft to Pay Novell $100M More for Linux Support: The pact between Microsoft and Novell, however, stirred up quite a controversy in the open-source community.
- SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft plans to pay software maker Novell up to $100 million in additional subscription fees due to strong demand for Novell's open-source Linux software that partners with Microsoft's proprietary Windows software. The payment to be made by Nov. 1, announced by the companies ...
Microsoft, Novell Expand Interoperability Partnership: Microsoft and Novell expand their interoperability partnership with Microsoft buying up to $100 million in SUSE Linux certificates. The partnership helps enable SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Windows Server to work together in the datacenter. Moreover, the companies will continue to work collaboratively on virtualization, systems management, directory and identity federation, document format compatibility, accessibility technology, and the Moonlight multimedia framework.
- Microsoft and Novell have announced an incremental investment in their partnership to promote interoperability between the SUSE Linux platform and Windows, with Microsoft pledging to purchase up to $100 million in certificates that customers can redeem for support. The goal of the Microsoft/Novell ...
Ubuntu Linux-Maker Canonical Joins Linux Foundation: Canonical, maker of the Ubuntu Linux Distribution, has joined the Linux Foundation. Canonical has advanced Linux on both the desktop and server and should be a good fit for the Linux Foundation, dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux. Canonical supports several other open-source projects including Bazaar, Storm and Upstart, and by joining, it should be able to support and benefit from other Linux community members in the Linux Foundation, including IBM, Novell, Oracle, Intel, Red Hat and VMware.
- Canonical, maintainer of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has joined the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux. By joining, Canonical can both contribute to and benefit from the foundation that features many of the Linux community's leading comp...
LinuxWorld 2008: Enthusiasm Up, Attendance Down: The shakiness of the macroeconomy plus general problems with travel arrangements caused many usual attendees to sit out this year's LinuxWorld Conference Expo in San Francisco. More than 7,500 people signed up, but about half that actually showed up, some estimates said. But there was no lack of enthusiasm for new product releases especially in the data center, mobile and cloud computing sectors. Those who stayed home missed a lot of good new products and plenty of good networking opportunities.
- It was apparent early on that this was not going to be a sold-out LinuxWorld Conference amp; Expo at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Malaise in the macroeconomy and general travel difficulties were generally thought to be the culprits. Only 7,500 people registered, and perhaps half that ...
Microsoft Site CodePlex Turns 2: Microsoft's CodePlex celebrates its second year of helping .Net developers dabble in open source. The Microsoft open-source site enables developers to contribute to and share code for such projects as IronPython.
- The Microsoft community development site, CodePlex, celebrated its second anniversary in early August. On Aug. 6, S. quot;Soma quot; Somasegar, senior vice president of Microsoft's Developer Division, blogged that CodePlex had reached its second year of operation as a Microsoft-run hosting site. T...
Motorola Entices Developers with Tools for Linux Phones: Motorola has started a public preview of development tools for unreleased Linux mobile phones. The free Eclipse-based tools will help Linux developers create, test and certify native applications for the newest Motorola handsets.
- Motorola has released a quot;public preview quot; of the first-ever native development tools for unreleased models of its Linux-based mobile phones. MotoDev Studio for Linux 0.3 is a freely downloadable, Eclipse-based tool suite aimed at helping third-party and community Linux developers create...
Xandros to Base New Freespire on Debian: Xandros says it will move the Freespire Linux distribution that it acquired from Linspire to Debian's forthcoming Lenny release.
- Xandros officials say they will release a new version of Freespire that will be based on Debian's forthcoming Lenny release, expected this fall. The decision to base Freespire on the Debian Linux distribution comes only a month after Xandros acquired Linspire, the developer of Freespire. Freespi...
Lightweight GNOME Edition Emerges: The Lightweight X11 Desktops Environment project has designed a new version of GNOME that it says is compatible with the latest netbooks as well as with older computers.
- The Lightweight X11 Desktops Environment project has developed a fast-booting and fast-running implementation of GNOME aimed at quot;netbooks quot; and older hardware. The LXDE project has already stacked up a number of distribution partners for this new implementation of GNOME. LXDE released i...
IBM, Linux Dealers Seize Chance to Market 'Microsoft-Free' Desktop: The slow adoption of Vista is giving IBM and Linux distributors an opportunity to convince enterprises that there are good desktop software alternatives to Windows. IBM, Canonical, Novell and Red Hat will work with hardware makers to market custom-designed PCs preloaded with Linux and Lotus word processing and collaboration software.
- SAN FRANCISCO IBM's front-line Linux and open-source troops were out in full force at Linux World Conference amp; Expo Aug. 5 in their continuing effort to remind the community at large that the company is serious about becoming more open-source-minded in enterprise product development. IBM ...
Vyatta Enterprise Router Runs Linux: Startup Vyatta bundles its Linux and open-source software-based router and firewall software into an x86 appliance for the enterprise market. Vyatta will market its appliance to compete on cost-performance with Cisco, Nortel and Juniper Networks.
- Vyatta has bundled its dual-licensed Linux and open-source software-based router and firewall software into a branded hardware quot;appliance quot; version for the enterprise market. The Vyatta 2501, the first in a quot;Series 2500 quot; line of quot;Open Networking Appliances, quot; target...
KDE 4.1 Pushes Cross-Platform Support, UI: The free software Linux desktop KDE 4.1 advances the KDE Project's goals of cross-platform support and helps make the user interface more attractive. The KDE Project looked to Apple as an example of the importance of an attractive UI.
- With the release of Version 4.1 of the KDE Linux desktop July 29, the KDE community made statements on several fronts, including advanced cross-platform support and overall improvements in the look and feel of the GUI. In an interview with eWEEK, Adriaan de Groot, vice president of KDE e.V., th...
Open-Source Tools Fuel Web, Desktop Development: Sun Microsystems' Sun Web Stack, an integrated enterprise-quality AMP for Solaris and Linux, is ready to roll, and the core components of the Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 and Sun Java System Web Proxy are open source. Sun hopes it means faster time to market for Web developers.
- Open-source community developers have been awash in news this summer, particularly the past few weeks surrounding the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 21-25 in Portland, Ore. Sun Microsystems on July 23 announced the availability of the Sun Web Stack, an integrated enterprise-quality AMP (Apac...