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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
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Social Media Draws a Crowd – WSJ.com
“Analysts and ad executives say the space won’t be dominated by small competitors for long because advertising holding companies and bigger public-relations firms will likely ramp up acquiring the smaller boutique firms, much like they have done with other digital areas such as search advertising.”
tags: social media
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Virus targets Siemens industrial control systems | Technology | Reuters
“The German company said the malware is a Trojan worm dubbed Stuxnet that spreads via infected USB thumb drives, exploiting a yet-to-be-patched vulnerability in Microsoft Corp’s Windows operating system.”
tags: virus siemens microsoft windows
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Amazon Says E-Books Now Top Hardcover Sales – NYTimes.com
“Amazon.com, one of the nation’s largest bookstores, said Monday that for the last three months, sales of electronic books for the Kindle, Amazon’s e-reader, outnumbered sales of hardcover books for the first time.”
tags: amazon kindle ebook
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Linux First Steps | ITworld
“Every now and again someone writes me and asks me “What’s the best way for me to get started in Linux?” Over the years, I’ve answered in several different ways, but here’s the summarization of my thoughts.”
tags: linux
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Linden Lab Announces Management Changes — SAN FRANCISCO, June 24 /PRNewswire/ –
“Linden Lab®, creator of 3D virtual world Second Life®, announced today that company founder Philip Rosedale has been named interim CEO, and CFO Bob Komin has assumed the additional role of COO. Linden Lab also announced that Mark Kingdon is stepping down as CEO.”
tags: second-life
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Red Hat Integrates Server and Desktop Virtualization – MarketWatch
“Red Hat, Inc. (RHT 30.91, -0.45, -1.44%) , the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the next step in the integration of its enterprise-grade server and desktop virtualization portfolio with the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2. In addition to providing the first release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops, the 2.2 update includes new scalability capabilities, migration tools and features to expand the performance and security of the solution.”
tags: red-hat
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Firefox update brings protection from Flash crashes
 “Mozilla is rolling out an update of its Firefox Web browser that adds support for plugin isolation. Version 3.6.4, which includes the new feature, was officially released on Tuesday and will be deployed soon through the browser’s automated update system.
It is unusual for Mozilla to deploy a major new feature in a minor point update, but the plugin isolation capability is a worthy exception to the rule, since it will significantly improve the browser’s stability. In the new version of Firefox, plugin components like Flash and Silverlight will run in external processes. When these plugins crash, the browser itself will not be terminated.”
tags: firefox, flash
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Eclipse project releases major update of open source IDE
“The Eclipse project has announced the Helios release train, a major update of the open source Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) and many of its key components.
Due to the modularity of the software and the diversity of its community, Eclipse is developed like a platform. There are a multitude of independently-developed components that supply specific kinds of functionality. The most widely-used components are collected into a set of standard Eclipse packages that are targeted towards specific kinds of development.”
tags: eclipse, open-source
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iPhone 4 – Part 3: First Impression | patrickWeb Archives
“The Fedex delivery man pulled up at 10:30 this morning with an iPhone 4 in his hand — there were 15 more on his truck. The packaging is elegant and simple to open. After syncing the iPhone 3GS and Stainless Shuffle to be sure iTunes was up to date, I connected the iPhone 4. The first screen to appear showed my mobile phone number and asked me to enter my zip code and last four of the social for authentication. After agreeing to the Apple and AT&T terms and conditions the phone was activated and the copying of apps plus thousands of songs and music began. I went out for an errand and when I got back the iPhone 4 was loaded with my data. The next step was to set up the Google accounts for over-the-air syncing of my 1,500 contacts plus all the calendar entries and gmail. Minutes later I was good to go. It doesn’t get much simpler than that.”
tags: iphone
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Counting the Cost of Free: What Value, Linux? | COMPUTER ZINE
“Your study found that it would cost $1.4 billion for a company to build the Linux kernel from scratch today, and $10.8 billion to build an entire Linux distribution similar to Fedora 9. Can you explain how you reached those figures?”
tags: linux, cost, fedora
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Microsoft says Azure still not up to par – Computerworld
“Due to an early emphasis on getting the right architecture for its Azure cloud platform, which went live in February, Microsoft’s cloud service is still missing key features that are available in the company’s standalone products, said Microsoft executives at the company’s 2010 Tech Ed conference, being held this week in New Orleans.”
tags: microsoft, azure, cloud
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When should excluding open source be illegal? | ZDNet
“Last week Laurent Bounin of Savoir Faire Linux in Quebec wrote in with good news.
A Canadian court ruled the provincial government broke the law in 2006 when it upgraded Windows on 800 workstations and excluded open source from the bid.
It wasn’t a complete victory. The decision was not reversed. But Savoir Faire got its court costs, and the government is on notice.”
tags: open-source, canda
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Eclipse: Developers growing more fond of desktop Linux
“A key finding was the continued growth of Linux as a developer desktop. “Close to one-third of developers (33 percent) now use Linux as their primary development operating system; this is up from 20 percent in 2007,” the report said.
“In parallel, Microsoft Windows has dropped from 74 percent in 2007 to 58 percent in 2010,” Eclipse said in the report.”
tags: eclipse
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Open Innovation’s Challenge: Letting Go Is Hard To Do – BusinessWeek
“But the best role model is Eclipse, formed through IBM’s 2001 donation of its Java development software. IBM executives decided to share control when they realized “they needed Eclipse to become independent to achieve their strategic goal to have the broader Java ecosystem adopt Eclipse,” says Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. Since then, the foundation has been able to attract outside participation not only through its formal processes, but also through new bottom-up initiatives created and led by outsiders.”
tags: innovation, open, eclipse, open-source
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Life at Eclipse » Blog Archive » EPL/GPL Commentary
“The EPL and the GPL are inherently incompatible licenses. That is the position of both the Free Software Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation. In preparing this we consulted with the FSF to make sure we fully understood their interpretation of the GPL and how it interacts with the EPL. You may not link GPL and EPL code together and distribute the result. It doesn’t matter if the linking is dynamic, static or whatever. This bears repeating: if you or your organization are distributing EPL and GPL licensed code linked together into a single program you are almost certainly violating both the EPL and the GPL.”
tags: eclipse, epl, gpl, licenses, open-source
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