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Eclipse Ready To Reveal Desktop-delivery Alternative
News The Eclipse open-source software foundation next week plans to release software that will offer developers an alternative to Windows for delivering desktop applications. The group, now an independent open-source foundation, named an executive...
[June 22, 2004, 12:25]
JBoss And Apache Clash On Shared Code
News In summary, the source code incriminated by Exhibit A [a section of code which JBoss claimed Apache had copied] existed at the Apache Software Foundation at least 6 months before it made its first appearance at JBoss," said Gulku.
[November 12, 2004, 16:55]
Firefox Sneaks Into The Enterprise
News Nitot said formal support is important, but this is not something that the Mozilla Foundation will use as a source of income. Gervase Markham, a Mozilla staff member who was also speaking at FOSDEM, added that there is a Fortune 100 company in the...
[March 1, 2005, 13:35]
IBM Targets SMEs With Open Source Java Buy
News Based in El Segundo, California, Gluecode sells corporate customers services around a suite of open source software developed at the Apache Foundation. LeBlanc said IBM's familiarity with the Apache license and Gluecode employees' connections at...
[May 11, 2005, 10:15]
Business Objects Plugs In To Eclipse
News Business intelligence software maker Business Objects has signalled its intention to join the Eclipse Foundation and move several products onto the open source platform. One of the latest big names to back Eclipse is Macromedia, which in June...
[November 7, 2005, 9:05]
Will Mozilla's Lightning Strike Outlook?
News The Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) is concentrating on an application called Chandler that is also focused on tightly integrated calendar and email functions. The Mozilla Foundation is hatching yet another software project to challenge...
[December 23, 2004, 8:00]
Open Source Picks Some New Fights
News Last week, a company called Gluecode began selling technical support and maintenance services for a package of infrastructure tools from the Apache Foundation, which oversees and develops some of the most popular open-source software.
[November 22, 2004, 14:45]
Red Hat Takes On Application-server Market
News Jonas competes with two other open-source application servers, JBoss from JBoss Group, and Geronimo from the Apache Software Foundation. Red Hat's software will be one of the first parts of the company's Open Source Architecture, under which it...
[December 19, 2003, 9:00]
Fledgling Thunderbird Takes On Outlook
News Not content with eating into Microsoft's share of the browser market with Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation has released an open-source email client to rival Outlook. The Mozilla Foundation has already experienced considerable successful with its...
[December 7, 2004, 12:40]
Kopernicus: Linux Is Made Easy
News The Gnome Foundation, a group of open source and commercial software and hardware vendors, is working to evolve the Gnome Linux/Unix user interface, as well. Gnome Foundation officials this summer said they did not expect their work to dovetail...
[October 25, 2000, 7:34]
Oracle Quietly Works With Mozilla
News Is Oracle making a major play into the collaboration space through a partnership with the Mozilla Foundation? The Mozilla Foundation revealed at the FOSDEM conference in February that the database giant had hired three people to work on Mozilla...
[May 13, 2005, 11:45]
IBM Ejects Eclipse
News Eclipse, an open-source development tools organisation backed by IBM, plans to transition to an independent foundation by next month, a representative said on Tuesday. The current Eclipse consortium, which is made up of about 50 software companies...
[January 20, 2004, 15:35]
Meet Sun's Open Source Ambassador
News The newly minted Foundation is aiming to build an open source desktop environment that it hopes will rival Microsoft Windows/Office combination. Indeed, Sun was one of the headliners at Tuesday's launch of the Gnome Foundation at LinuxWorld.
[August 17, 2000, 9:42]
Firefox Eyes New Markets
News The coals are still hot from Tuesday morning's Firefox 1.0 release, but the Mozilla Foundation is already cooking up its next moves to challenge Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser dominance. Now that it has the Firefox 1.0 milestone under its...
[November 10, 2004, 7:43]
Open Source Projects 'need More Customer Focus'
News Bart Decrem, a marketing contact for the Mozilla Foundation, said last year that one of the reasons why the Firefox browser has been so successful is because it focused on making the browser more easy to use.
[June 2, 2005, 12:40]
Open Source Comes Of Age
News Issues that have only recently begun to surface in the public consciousness, in high-profile events like the NTP-RIM lawsuit and the furore over Sony BMG's insidious music CDs, are exactly the sort of thing Stallman had in mind when he created the...
[March 13, 2006, 17:10]
Wednesday
Blog He's invested a few million in the Open Source Application Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which intends to produce a personal information manager that will do much the same as Outlook. And if you don't like the way it does something...
[October 25, 2002, 18:27]
How To Position And Sell Novell Open Enterprise Server
White Papers Unlike other server platforms that either force vendor lock-in or offer insufficient support for enterprise-level customers, OES provides customers the freedom to choose the right foundation for their environment.
[February 7, 2006, 23:00]
HP To Resell Open-source Email Software
News Sendmail, which owns the full software copyright, sells it as the foundation to a larger suite of proprietary software, Olson said. In May, HP announced that it would provide support for two significant open-source server software packages, the...
[June 14, 2004, 9:05]
LinuxWorld: What's In Store For Open Source?
News Wed 30 Jan: Veritas' Foundation Suite now runs on Red Hat's version of the Unix clone, the company announced at LinuxWorld Thurs 31 Jan: Several telecommunications companies have joined the Open Source Development Lab
[January 30, 2002, 12:49]
