In the News
PC Mag reports, "The long-awaited gPhone is still a pipe dream for the Google faithful, but the search engine giant took a step toward realizing that goal Monday with the introduction of the Android open-source platform for mobile devices."
From Dana Blankenhorn at ZDNet, "This is the first in a series of pieces I plan to write about the values driving open source, and by extension the Internet....Transparency may be the most important open source value."
Computer World shares, "While Eclipse tools may have first appeared in some companies after grass-roots efforts by individual developers working on isolated projects, the open-source developer community is now squarely 'business-oriented,' according to the results of a recent survey (download PDF) released today."
InternetNews.com posts, "A new software as a service (SaaS) offering from open source software purveyor OpenLogic is taking aim at the freewheeling usage of open source in the workplace with OpenLogic Exchange (OLEX) Enterprise Edition -- a solution that provides businesses with an approval and governance model for adoption."
All the way from the Jankarta Post, "In an effort to support the ASEAN Go Open-source initiative, Indonesia is set to hold the ASEAN Workshop on Open Source Software on Nov. 7-8 to promote the use of legal and free-to-download office computer software."
PC World reports, "Apple has released the Darwin source code behind its Leopard operating system to developers."
The New York Times states, "Advocates of Linux, the free open-source operating system, like to say that buying a standard-issue computer involves a Microsoft Tax... New versions of Linux and inexpensive hardware like the new Everex gPC TC2502 make that tax avoidable."
On the Blogosphere
Ars Technica posts an article entitled, "Game-Changer: Asus EE PC a Win for Intel and Linux, at Microsoft's Expense."
From The Ledger, "Mr. Rubin is one of the primary architects behind...(a) product that...smacks of potential über-coolness — the Google Phone. As Google’s “director of mobile platforms,” Mr. Rubin oversees dozens of engineers who are developing the software at the company’s sprawling campus here. " Read more about him!
"As we know Ghost is a software used to image your Windows installation, in other words it help you to have a complete backup of a PC for later restore or replication in environment such as School,University, Computer Training lab, and so on." Geek2Live reports that there's now an open source alternative.
Windows Updated reports, "Mandriva, based in France, had agreed to supply a customized Linux OS for 17,000 Intel Classmate PCs, which are rugged laptops aimed for educational use in developing countries. But in an unorthodox twist after the deal was completed about three weeks ago, Nigeria has since decided that it will strip the OS from the Classmate PCs and install Microsoft's Windows OS instead..."
Free and Open Source Software in Education shares, "(On) Halloween, four developers holed up in a room in the Hotel@MIT and hacked away on what would become a working version of local apps running on an Edubuntu thin-client!" Very big news!!
From C News, "The project to install open-source software at schools has been launched in Russia."
Fsckin w/Linux reports, "This week, WalMart has begun selling a new computer called the gPC for the price of $199. Instead of using Microsoft Windows, this incredibly inexpensive Linux-based computer runs an operating system which is fittingly called 'gOS'." G, of course, stands for Google.
The Norfolk Blogger writes, "After years of the government telling us all to install Microsoft software in school without hesitation,Becta, a (U.K.) government agency have at last announced that schools should be very careful about signing any deals with Microsoft and should review whether open source software might be a better option.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Thursday, November 08, 2007
K-12 Open Source News, 8 November 2007
In the News
Business Wire reports, "...(A) study reveals Feds’ increasing appetite for open source – 71 percent of respondents note that their agency can benefit from open source... The full study is available for download at www.federalopensourcealliance.com."
From The NonProfit Times, "...the race is on to 'open' the various systems so that they can integrate with software from other vendors."
PC World reveals, "Autodesk recently announced plans to donate its coordinate system (CS) and map projection technology to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)."
On the Blogosphere
In the second of a three part series, Serdar Yegulalp, writes, "In the first post in this series, I talked about how open-source operating systems were one of a galaxy of three major and complementary forces. The second, and in some ways more important force, is open-source applications."
Business Wire reports, "...(A) study reveals Feds’ increasing appetite for open source – 71 percent of respondents note that their agency can benefit from open source... The full study is available for download at www.federalopensourcealliance.com."
From The NonProfit Times, "...the race is on to 'open' the various systems so that they can integrate with software from other vendors."
PC World reveals, "Autodesk recently announced plans to donate its coordinate system (CS) and map projection technology to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)."
On the Blogosphere
In the second of a three part series, Serdar Yegulalp, writes, "In the first post in this series, I talked about how open-source operating systems were one of a galaxy of three major and complementary forces. The second, and in some ways more important force, is open-source applications."
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
K-12 Open Source News, 31 October 2007
In the News
CNet News advises, "...If you're looking for rapid growth opportunities (i.e., 30 percent compound annual growth rate), open source is the way to go, to the tune of $22 billion, according to Gartner (and IDC)."
From InternetNews.com, "Open source networking vendor Vyatta is rolling out the latest community edition of its routing software, continuing efforts to target Cisco users in a battle for a slice of the multi-billion-dollar router market. But while Vyatta Community Edition 3 (VC3) adds new features, users of Vyatta's subscription-based edition may not notice much change."
CNet reports, "Microsoft will likely be including SubSonic with its products, and that SubSonic will remain under MPL 1.1:...So that's the deal: I'm going to work for Microsoft, and my job will be to build out SubSonic as the "sweetness" on top of ASP.NET and (more notably) the new MVC platform. SubSonic will be the convention-driven toolset for Microsoft's new MVC framework...."
InfoWorld writes about OpenProj, "If...you're a small business manager who needs to manage small business projects, read on."
On the Blogosphere
The Vagueware Blog writes, "Deborah Murrell from CLEO... talked about trying to deploy Moodle to every school in Cumbria & Lancashire. Some schools have used Moodle as their primary web-site CMS, particularly primary schools..."
From Dan Farber, "Google CEO Eric Schmidt seemed quite confident about Google doing both based on his Analyst Day remarks: “The primary goal of the company is to make money,” he said. The way to make money is riding the massive transition to cloud computing across search, ads and apps."
Check out this interesting catalog of free and open source software.
Tectonic reports that "Open Document format (ODF) (recently) became an official standard for South African government communications."
CNet News advises, "...If you're looking for rapid growth opportunities (i.e., 30 percent compound annual growth rate), open source is the way to go, to the tune of $22 billion, according to Gartner (and IDC)."
From InternetNews.com, "Open source networking vendor Vyatta is rolling out the latest community edition of its routing software, continuing efforts to target Cisco users in a battle for a slice of the multi-billion-dollar router market. But while Vyatta Community Edition 3 (VC3) adds new features, users of Vyatta's subscription-based edition may not notice much change."
CNet reports, "Microsoft will likely be including SubSonic with its products, and that SubSonic will remain under MPL 1.1:...So that's the deal: I'm going to work for Microsoft, and my job will be to build out SubSonic as the "sweetness" on top of ASP.NET and (more notably) the new MVC platform. SubSonic will be the convention-driven toolset for Microsoft's new MVC framework...."
InfoWorld writes about OpenProj, "If...you're a small business manager who needs to manage small business projects, read on."
On the Blogosphere
The Vagueware Blog writes, "Deborah Murrell from CLEO... talked about trying to deploy Moodle to every school in Cumbria & Lancashire. Some schools have used Moodle as their primary web-site CMS, particularly primary schools..."
From Dan Farber, "Google CEO Eric Schmidt seemed quite confident about Google doing both based on his Analyst Day remarks: “The primary goal of the company is to make money,” he said. The way to make money is riding the massive transition to cloud computing across search, ads and apps."
Check out this interesting catalog of free and open source software.
Tectonic reports that "Open Document format (ODF) (recently) became an official standard for South African government communications."
Thursday, October 25, 2007
K-12 Open Source News, 25 October 2007
In the News
Sys-Con Media reports, "CorraTech has started an open source project called OpenSuite under the new GPL 3 license dedicated to the integration of open source applications. It describes it as the 'glue required to make independently developed open source applications act as though they were designed to operate as an integrated suite.'"
The San Diego Union Tribune reports, "Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it had withdrawn the two last challenges to an EU antitrust order – a move that shuts the book on its past legal fights and lets it focus on avoiding future trouble with European regulators."
From Channel Web Network: "The Eclipse Foundation released the first version of its Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) today, launching a hotly anticipated, open-source toolkit for building rich Internet applications."
ECommerceTimes shares, "A survey conducted by Evans Data shows that open source developers are not adopting the third version of the GNU General Public License as quickly as some may have hoped. Those who remain reluctant to incorporate GPL v3 cited reasons ranging from questions of its enforceability in court to disagreements with some of its new components."
From WhatPC?, "The Mozilla Foundation has posted a 21 per cent rise in revenues over 2006, increasing its earnings to $66.8m."
Part 2
Computer World Singapore posts, "The most influential factor for deploying open source technology is better protection against security breaches, according to an IDC survey of open source adoption plans and challenges in Australia, Korea, India, and China."
PRNewswire releases, "Zimbra, a Yahoo! company, the leader in open source, next-generation messaging and collaboration software, today announced that more than 200 educational institutions have chosen the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) in the past year. Zimbra now has more than 600,000 mailboxes at academic institutions in more than 15 countries.."
Information Week reports, "The sheer number of changes coming every two to three months from Linus Torvalds' "code tree" is a sign of accelerating kernel development. The process so far has produced undeniably high-quality, reliable code...But make no mistake: Torvalds is pushing open source development tactics to new extremes. As the kernel grows in size and complexity, the rapid-fire iterations are straining the capacity of the community of volunteers who test and debug them."
From the Blogosphere
Blue-GNU shares, Richard Stallman, "highlight(ed) the special connection between Free Software and educational institutions. For those who recall teachers admonishing students to bring enough cookies to share with the class, Stallman similarly admonished educational institutions: "So every school should bring only Free Software to class, and set an example with its software of the practice of disseminating human knowledge while building a strong, capable, independent and free society. And encouraging the spirit of good will, of helping other people."
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
K-12 Open Source News, 23 October 2007
In the News
Information Week's Serdar Yegulalp asks, "And so now Microsoft has conceded its antitrust case in the EU. So what does this mean for open source and Linux? From what I can tell, it just means business as usual."
Vnunnet.com reports, "Microsoft's compliance with the 2004 EU anti-trust ruling offering some good news to open source developers and users. The agreement will make it much easier for commercial and especially open source providers to create products that work with Microsoft products. As a result, Microsoft will no longer be able force itself upon new markets by offering a level of integration that isn't available from competing vendors."
ZDNet reports, "Open source systems management ISV Zenoss will reveal this week a partnership with rPath that will enable it to deliver VMware appliances in the VMware marketplace."
InternetNews.com opines, "The OpenSEA (Open Secure Edge Access) alliance, which was announced in May just ahead of the Las Vegas Interop show, is trying to prove that it's more than just a one-shot announcement with its first product release, debuting today ahead of this week's Interop New York 2007."
CNet informs us, "According to a survey of the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) [PDF], open source adoption is rampant within the rank-and-file of Oracle users...including widespread adoption of MySQL."
On the Blogosphere
Free and Open Source Software in Education shares, "Windows/Mac/Linux: Add clip art, advanced PDF functions, and in-editor Wikipedia searching to open source office suite OpenOffice.org with OxygenOffice Professional, a modified installation package and extension."
451 Caos Theory reports, "Two big open source stories from the UK: not only is retailing behemoth Tesco selling PCs bunded with the Ubuntu operating system but Becta, the government agency responsible for technology in the education system, has reported Microsoft to the Office of Fair Trading for alleged anti-competitive practices."
From ZDNet-UK: "Rather than investing time and energy into helping to promote real alternatives to Redmond's hold on school IT, Becta (The UK's advisor to the use of IT in schools) is simply using the OFT as a negotiating tool. Like many organisations, Becta seems incapable of thinking outside a Microsoft-defined box."
Tom Hoffman describes the promotion of this year's K-12 Open Mind's Conference as poor. Nonetheless, it turned out to be a great conference. He states, "The Open Minds Conference is the one we've been waiting for as a community. See you next year, in Indianapolis."
News from Manila: "The Commission on Information and Communications Technology expects to computerize 320 public high schools within the year through a project that donates computers loaded with open source software."
Christopher Dawson writes, "Maybe not for the average corporation yet, or even the average home user, but every time Canonical releases a new version of Ubuntu (and with it comes Edubuntu), Microsoft becomes a little less the default vendor of choice for educational computing."
Information Week's Serdar Yegulalp asks, "And so now Microsoft has conceded its antitrust case in the EU. So what does this mean for open source and Linux? From what I can tell, it just means business as usual."
Vnunnet.com reports, "Microsoft's compliance with the 2004 EU anti-trust ruling offering some good news to open source developers and users. The agreement will make it much easier for commercial and especially open source providers to create products that work with Microsoft products. As a result, Microsoft will no longer be able force itself upon new markets by offering a level of integration that isn't available from competing vendors."
ZDNet reports, "Open source systems management ISV Zenoss will reveal this week a partnership with rPath that will enable it to deliver VMware appliances in the VMware marketplace."
InternetNews.com opines, "The OpenSEA (Open Secure Edge Access) alliance, which was announced in May just ahead of the Las Vegas Interop show, is trying to prove that it's more than just a one-shot announcement with its first product release, debuting today ahead of this week's Interop New York 2007."
CNet informs us, "According to a survey of the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) [PDF], open source adoption is rampant within the rank-and-file of Oracle users...including widespread adoption of MySQL."
On the Blogosphere
Free and Open Source Software in Education shares, "Windows/Mac/Linux: Add clip art, advanced PDF functions, and in-editor Wikipedia searching to open source office suite OpenOffice.org with OxygenOffice Professional, a modified installation package and extension."
451 Caos Theory reports, "Two big open source stories from the UK: not only is retailing behemoth Tesco selling PCs bunded with the Ubuntu operating system but Becta, the government agency responsible for technology in the education system, has reported Microsoft to the Office of Fair Trading for alleged anti-competitive practices."
From ZDNet-UK: "Rather than investing time and energy into helping to promote real alternatives to Redmond's hold on school IT, Becta (The UK's advisor to the use of IT in schools) is simply using the OFT as a negotiating tool. Like many organisations, Becta seems incapable of thinking outside a Microsoft-defined box."
Tom Hoffman describes the promotion of this year's K-12 Open Mind's Conference as poor. Nonetheless, it turned out to be a great conference. He states, "The Open Minds Conference is the one we've been waiting for as a community. See you next year, in Indianapolis."
News from Manila: "The Commission on Information and Communications Technology expects to computerize 320 public high schools within the year through a project that donates computers loaded with open source software."
Christopher Dawson writes, "Maybe not for the average corporation yet, or even the average home user, but every time Canonical releases a new version of Ubuntu (and with it comes Edubuntu), Microsoft becomes a little less the default vendor of choice for educational computing."
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