Over the past two years I have attended Military Open Source Conferences in Washington DC to talk about geospatial open source software. I was impressed by the degree to which open source software has penetrated […]
Scott McNealy, Chairman and a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has told the BBC that he has been asked by President Obama to prepare a paper on open source for the new administration. McNealy told the […]
There are many misconceptions about open source that many of us encounter, one of which is that open source developers are hobbyists working in the garage in the evenings and weekends. A recent report Linux […]
The relationship between the open source community and Microsoft continues to evolve. Last Tuesday Brad Smith, Senor VP at Microsoft, gave a presentation at this year’s Open Source Business Conference that struck quite a different […]
Jason Birch’s work at the City of Nanaimo was featured on CTV in Canada this morning. If you want to see what an innovative person can do on an open source web platform, you can […]
A headline on CNET this AM begins “When hell freezes over…“. What the headline was referring to was the agreement announced by Novell and Microsoft to collaborate to help Microsoft’s Windows to work with Novell’s […]
As I mentioned in my last blog I have been at Oracle Open World the last few days. The highlight of OOW is usually Larry Ellison’s keynote and this year did not disappoint, although this […]