K-12 Open Source News, 15 October 2007, Part 2

In the News

CNN Money reports, "Continuing to deliver on its long-standing commitment to the Open Source community, Oracle today announced the contribution and a preview release of an enhanced Oracle Call Interface (OCI8) database driver for PHP."

Wired states, "Jono DiCarlo over at Humanized, a company dedicated to creating “humane” user interfaces, recently wrote up some interesting examples of both the good and the bad in open source software design." Read DiCarlo's article.

Rob Enderle writes in IT Business Edge, "Watching Microsoft deal with open source’s popularity kind of mirrors the Five Steps of Grief, normally applied when someone faces a terrible loss. Those steps are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance."

CNet reports on IBM's Lotus Symphony. Will it challenge Microsoft's desktop applications?

In the Blogosphere

Pramnos reports, "Linux gives us many opportunities to use our old hardware and keep it alive while saving money." The post provides suggestions on how to do this.

Softpedia writes, "...While it sounds like Windows Vista delivered an unexpected window of opportunity for the increase in adoption of Mac OS X and Linux, the fact of the matter is that the two rival platforms have almost flatlined in terms of uptake in 2007."

The Wayward Word Press reports on a New York Times article considering the virtues of Linux. Why would anyone want to use Linux? "(Politics is) not the most compelling reason for consumers. There is the price: Linux is free, or nearly so." Dave Shields also reminds us to pay attention to Ubuntu.

OpenOffice.org writes about sorting. That's right, sorting.