Sep 1

Apple's Relationship to Open Source #

rated
[hexley_fork_450]

Despite being one of the most tightly controlled technology companies on the market, Apple has a surprisingly complicated relationship with open source.


Aug 4

Google Pulls the Plug on Google Wave #

rated
[Alcatel-Lucent NextGen Communications Spotlight — Learn More »]

If you've become attached to Google's collaborative tool Google Wave, it's time to find an alternative.


Jul 14

Has SugarCRM Violated Open Source Principles? #

rated
[]

SugarCRM has long been one of the top open source customer relationship management software platforms, and this week, not only is it out in a...


May 19

Google I/O Conference Kicks Off With New WebM Video Format #

rated
[Alcatel-Lucent NextGen Communications Spotlight — Learn More »]

The annual Google I/O conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco kicks off today, following Google's announcement all the way back in March that the...


Apr 22

What Were the Headlines From DrupalCon? #

rated
[]

At this week's DrupalCon conference in San Francisco, there was much evidence of growth and momentum for the popular open source content management system (which...


Apr 14

What is Open Cloud? #

rated
[]

I've read a big of angst about cloud lock-in, a lot of weed pulling in the form of interoperability standards for the cloud, and a...


Mar 30

SCO Can't Win for Losing: Jury Says Novell Owns Unix Copyrights #

rated
[Novell]

It's almost hard to believe that it's been eight years in the making, but SCO has finally had its day at trial, and lost.


Mar 18

Mozilla Labs' Contacts Add-On Prototype Shows Promise #

rated
[]

Mozilla Labs continues to explore innovative new spins on messaging, with recent upgrades to the Thunderbird e-mail project, and continuing development of the promising Mozilla...


Mar 15

Web Notable Tim Bray Joins Google, Will Push Android #

rated
[]

Tim Bray, a well-known web guru who was working at Oracle via its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, has left the company and joined Google, where...


Mar 11

Will Simon Phipps Energize OSI? #

rated
[OSI Logo]

Former Sun chief open source officer Simon Phipps is joining the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board effective April 1st.


Mar 10

Evan Prodromou Speaks on the Future of StatusNet #

rated
[Evan Prodromou]

There's no moss growing on StatusNet these days. The company has been busy announcing cloud service plans, an enterprise network service, and the 0.9 release...


Mar 4

Best Buy Releases Idea-Gathering App Under Open Source Licence #

rated

Best Buy announced this week that the company is releasing its idea-gathering software, BBYIDX, under the GNU General Public License.

Feb 18

Enterprise Edition... Space Invaders? #

rated
[Space Invaders Enterprise Edition]

What do you get when you cross business logic and 80s arcade video games?


Feb 17

Twitter Loves Open Source: Just Not as Much as Status.net #

rated

News is making the rounds that Twitter has put up a directory showing all the open source projects it loves, which in real terms means...

Measuring FAIL: A Scorecard for Evaluating Open Source Projects #

rated
[Fail Whale]

Ever wonder whether a given FLOSS project is going to succeed or flounder?



HexLex tracks and indexes the most recent, relevant content of interest to software professionals. These are the top sites and entries for the past 30 days.

Copyright © Attribyte, LLC. All rights reserved. All entries and images © original authors | Terms of Use