BusineekWeek has an article about the spread of Linux in India. It’s a great read for anyone interested in the philosophical spread of open source software and the inherent challenges of proprietary wares in the developing world.
“We’re using something called Linux,” says 12-year-old Arya VM as she plays with Tux Paint, a Linux drawing [...]
So the acquisition rumors some months ago were half true. Atlanta based JBoss is being acquired by Raleigh based RedHat for $350M with a $70M earnout. It makes a ton of sense for RedHat to own JBoss in my opinion. They’re both based in the South and both are fundamentally open-source initiatives, [...]
Jeff Nolan seems to have the early scoop on definitive news that JBoss and Oracle are getting jiggy on the dance floor.
This means very little to you Web 2.o folkies. But to enterprise people this is a pretty big deal. It feels like Oracle is getting into the open-source game like Michael Jackson [...]
I’ve been a long-time and heavy user of Gallery, the open source photo management software. I take around 3K photographs a year and needed an efficient way to manage large, high-quality images. Flickr is great, but I’m way too deep into using something I love just to move off of it.
I spent the [...]