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IBM to donate Symphony code to Apache for consideration

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Bob Sutor

Six weeks ago I noted here that Oracle had to decided to offer the codebase for OpenOffice.org, the open source word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software suite to the Apache Software Foundation. Two weeks after that, Apache voted to accept … Continue reading →

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ApacheCon North America 2011 theme announced

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Bob Sutor

I just received this news from the folks at the Apache Software Foundation: The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced “Open Source Enterprise Solutions, Cloud Computing, … Continue reading →

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Some remarks on OpenOffice going to Apache

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Bob Sutor

Earlier today, Oracle announced that they would be donating source code for OpenOffice to the Apache Software Foundation to start a new incubator project. It’s been an interesting road to get to this point over the decades, with well and … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 05/16/2011

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Bob Sutor

Groklaw 2.0 Interview: PJ on the beginning, ending, and future of Groklaw | opensource.com “Last month PJ announced that because SCO as we knew it is no more,” she would stop publishing new articles today, May 16, Groklaw’s anniversary. Now … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 01/15/2011

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Bob Sutor

What Factors Justify the Use of Apache Hadoop? – tecosystems “When is Hadoop justified? For a petabyte workloads, certainly. But the versatility of tool makes it appropriate for a variety of workloads beyond quote unquote big data. It’s not going … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 01/05/2011

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Bob Sutor

Google Wins One Against Microsoft – WSJ.com “Google Inc. has won a key ruling in its lawsuit against the U.S. Interior Department, two months after the Web giant accused the agency of improperly favoring rival Microsoft Corp. in a contract … Continue reading →

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Review of the blog for 2010 – October through December

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Bob Sutor

I finish my survey of what I blogged about in 2010 as I look at the final three months of the year. Last Time: “Review of the blog for 2010 – July through September” Just as the third quarter of … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 12/06/2010

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Dark forces gunning for Google – Telegraph “But a key player in all of this that you might not have heard of is the Brussels-based “Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace”, or ICOMP, which has been lobbying for an antitrust … Continue reading →

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ApacheCon keynote presentation

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Here are the slides I used today during my ApacheCon 2010 keynote. The presentation was called “Data, Languages, and Problems” with the abstract Much research work over the next decade will be driven by those seeking to solve complex problems … Continue reading →

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ApacheCon keynote preview

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Bob Sutor

I don’t give my ApacheCon keynote for 24 hours, but here are a few bullets I’ll address in my presentation: For any programming language I mention that does something, there will be 10 that do something similar that I won’t … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 10/22/2010

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Statement by the ASF Board on recent Java-related events : The Apache Software Foundation Blog “As reported recently in the news and elsewhere, there are two issues currently facing the Foundation that merit a response from the ASF.” tags: apache … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 10/20/2010

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Boosting Ubuntu’s Productivity: 20 Tips — Datamation.com “In this article, I’ll share twenty tips that have saved me countless hours of wasted time, while making my life with Ubuntu easier in general. Some among you may have different variations of … Continue reading →

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Keynote at ApacheCon 2010

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Bob Sutor

The Apache Software Foundation has announced the keynote lineup for their ApacheCon 2010 conference: ApacheCon, the official conference, trainings, expo, hackathon, barcamp and meetups of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), today announced the keynote presenters and sponsors for ApacheCon North … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 10/04/2010

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Bob Sutor

The New Type of Programmer: DevOp | ITworld “One theme that came up repeatedly in my research for an article about what’s different about programming for cloud computing is that developers should expect to learn more about cloud computing platforms, … Continue reading →

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ApacheCon North America 2010

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Registration is now open for ApacheCon North America 2010, the annual conference of the Apache Software Foundation. The conference will be held from November 1 to 5 at the Westin Peachtree in Atlanta, Georgia. This and other conferences are listed … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 07/20/2010

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Java’s team of rivals: Conflicts and alliances in the Oracle era “Oracle may be Java’s new proprietor, but SpringSource, Apache, and Eclipse are driving the development agenda too” tags: java oracle eclipse apache Social Media Draws a Crowd – WSJ.com … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 05/23/2010

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Novell’s SLE update adds full KVM support, improved clustering “Novell announced SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 11 Service Pack 1 (SP1) in server and desktop versions. SLE 11 SP1 advances the server version’s virtualization capabilities with full support for KVM, while … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 05/18/2010

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Bob Sutor

451 CAOS Theory » Alfresco’s new Activiti en route to Apache “Interesting news from open source content management vendor Alfresco this morning, which has launched the Activiti business process management project and hired Tom Baeyens, founder and architect of the … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 02/23/2010

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Bob Sutor

A little overagressive on the links today, but there’s a lot going on … The Apache Software Foundation Announces the 15th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server : The Apache Software Foundation Blog “The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) — … Continue reading →

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Checking broken links in WordPress blogs

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Bob Sutor

I just installed the Broken Link Checker plugin. It scans your blog entries and pages and gives you an nice report and way to fix any links that end up in the great web void rather than honest web pages. … Continue reading →

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