Mueller said the delay in Oracle's response means a decision on the merger won't come from the European Commission until January 27.

Contrary to rumors, Google did not release a beta version of its much anticipated Chrome operating system today. And nothing is coming anytime soon: the final version is at least a year away, the mega giant web company said. But there was some significant news for the community today. Google made the early code available to [...]

Open source Java clustering software developer Terracotta announced its intent to buy an open source job scheduler known as Quartz. The integration of Quartz into Terracotta’s platform will ease high availability job scheduling and scaling applications to multiple nodes, the company said. Quartz is currently integrated into SpringSource and Red Hat products and counts Adobe, Cisco, [...]

With ChromeOS Google is making the same call on networks Microsoft made on chips two decades ago. It's a call that demands a response, not just from the market but from governments. Deregulate. Free the bits. Here and around the world.

MindTouch has launched its own cloud to serve up its open source collaboration solution.

Microsoft licenses are now used on 1 in every 40 open source projects. That's more than Mozilla. More than Eclipse. More than even the Lesser GPL.

Microsoft licenses are now used on 1 in every 40 open source projects. That's more than Mozilla. More than Eclipse. More than even the Lesser GPL.

ChromeOS is a version of Bill Gates' nightmares from 15 years ago, as Netscape was rising, visions that led directly to the case of U.S. vs. Microsoft. [Sponsored] NEC   Ads by Pheedo

ChromeOS is a version of Bill Gates' nightmares from 15 years ago, as Netscape was rising, visions that led directly to the case of U.S. vs. Microsoft. [Sponsored] NEC   Ads by Pheedo

Makers of embedded devices have been moving strongly into open source, especially Linux, and Microsoft was at great risk of being left behind.

Makers of embedded devices have been moving strongly into open source, especially Linux, and Microsoft was at great risk of being left behind.

We should not get too excited about Android's early success. A 3.5% market share is still a gnat on Apple's elephant.

Larry Augustin's story is proof that second acts in business are possible. Most of those who boomed during the dot-boom were never heard from after the dot-bomb. But not Larry. [Sponsored] NEC   Ads by Pheedo

There's some basic math at work here. The smaller your circulation base, the more specialized it is, the better off you'll do with either a paid model or a registration model.

One can argue that, while Montavista hoped to sell for more, its investors are now getting a taste of a fast-growing proposition. And their success, Cavium's success, will be open source's success as well.

As families go, the Linux operating system family has become the family among the Top500 supercomputers, running on 89.20% of all systems. Proprietary Unix, which used to the the preferred OS for these supercomputers in the 1990s is down to 5% share, and Windows is reported to be running on exactly 5 systems, for a 1% share.read more

In the Stupid Network essay, which he wrote while at AT&T in 1997, Isenberg argued that the most efficient network is controlled at the edge, with a design based on the idea of plenty, and transport based on the needs of the data.

Microsoft has won a patent that seems to cover an old Unix authentication scheme known as Sudo.

This Broadcom announcement is the best proof yet that the future of the handheld market is Linux.