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 […]
If you need high resolution geospatial data from the world’s leading commercial sources including high resolution imagery from Digital Globe, vector data from Navteq, DEMs from Intermap, and weather data from Weatherbug, take a look […]
At GITA in Seattle this year I attended two sessions on what I consider to be one of the most important government initiatives in the area of geospatial data, national data models (my term). In […]
I just saw this article US Navy to Require Open Standards on James Fee’s Blog . It means that increasingly the Navy will acquire systems based on open technologies and standards. This was announced March […]
GITA 31 just kicked off this afternoon with a fascinating keynote by Tom Murphy, former Mayor of Pittsburgh. He made a number of interesting points but there are three that really hit the mark with […]
The MapGuide Open Source project team has released MapGuide Open Source 2.0.0. The primary new feature of this release is Fusion, a template-based system that abstracts presentation from model and controller. You’ll find significant performance […]
According to InformationWeek , Gartner in a new research report warns open source software makers that Microsoft’s pledge to open up its documentation library to third parties carries legal risks for developers.