It has been reported that Red Hat has become the first company making its money primarily from open source technology to exceed $1 billion in annual revenue. Microsoft has announced that it will allow developers […]
I blogged earlier about this year’s FOSS4G conference in Denver, which attracted the highest attendance ever. I’ve seen statistics that for two thirds of the attendees this was their first time at a FOSS4G event. […]
Yesterday at the FOSS4G conference in Denver, one of the workshops that was new this year was a newcomer event targetted on folks who were new to FOSS4G and new to open source geospatial. I’ve […]
Autodesk has announced that the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) exporter for Revit is now available as open source code, licensed under LGPL. Revit has supported IFC file export since 2005. Models can be exported to […]
Flurry has estimated the sales numbers for the first 74 days of the launch of the original iPhone and the Motorola Droid, which uses the open source Google Android OS. 74 days was the period […]
After a three-month investigation by the European Commission, the EU has decided that the acquisition has the “potential to revitalize important assets and create new and innovative products.” Of particular concern was Oracle’s acquisition of […]
Following the US Department of Defense and the UK Government, the California State Office of the CIO (OCIO) has evened the procurement playing field for open source software within the state government. The OCIO issued […]
Another very important initiative that has happened in the last few months is the formation of Open Source for America (OSFA) which is focussed on promoting open source software within the US federal government and […]