A recent report by INPUT has identified five technologies that are expected to see “huge” increases in adoption by the US government over the next five years. Cloud computing Open source software Virtualization Service oriented […]
It has been reported that an employee of Dell has gotten Chrome OS, which Google released to open source Nov 19, to run on a Dell Mini 10v netbook. I blogged earlier that Ed Parsons […]
According to a report, since Saturday the White House’s web site has been running on Drupal, an open source content management engine that is behind many web sites including OSGEO’s. According to the report, White House […]
The final presenter that I introduced at the FOSS4G plenary session Thursday was Andy Pitman, Professor of Atmospheric Science and Co-director of the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and […]
A new report released by IDC called Worldwide Open Source Software 2009–2013 Forecast predicts that the open source market will accelerate in 2009 and beyond. The study forecasts a 22.4% compound annual growth rate. What […]
At OSCON, Microsoft announced that it had submitted 22,000 lines of driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license. The code comprises four drivers for Linux Device Driver for Virtualization […]
The Free and Open Source Learning Centre (FOSSLC) is a non-profit organization and every summer it hosts the FOSSLC Summercamp in Ottawa. The conference will be on May 13, 14, and 15 at Algonquin College, Ottawa, […]
I and probably many others were very surprised to hear today that Oracle intends to buy Sun Microsystems. This means that Oracle is now a hardware (Sparc/Ultrasparc) and operating system (Solaris) company as well as […]