Red Hat created a bit of stir recently when it shipped its Enterprise Virtualization for Servers product because the management component runs on a Window server.  That’s right — no Linux support. The platform is an enhancement of the former Qumranet’s KVM-based platform, which was designed for Windows and of course supports Linux virtual machines. But [...] [Sponsored] NEC   Ads by Pheedo

What starts as a BBC feature about a children's show presenter becomes a detective story and then A Christmas Carol, all thanks to Linux.

A lot of people seem to think that open source is a magic solution to project management and that open source projects will automatically attract a large and healthy community of contributors and users who will improve the software. This, of course, is not the case. In fact, creating a successful open source project is a really major and difficult effort. You have to deliver an initial promise that people find interesting, attract other people, then facilitate and lead the community, etc. read more

Vendors serving customers at the application development level are figuring out how to respond more effectively. Our message seems to resonate. It's about the pragmatism of taking advantage of what's out there, and making good choices at the application level.

Open source code responds to whomever gives it the love of time. The parents aren't those who gave it the DNA of capital, but those who gave it the love of hard work.

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The CodePlex Foundation (http://codeplex.org/; Twitter @codeplex_f), which was started back in September of this year, has been trying to gain traction and momentum. Unfortunately, its pro tempore Board of Directors and President are all volunteers already with overflowing plates, so progress hasn't been particularly visible.read more

Firefox has transformed the Web, by creating real competition to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The question to ask today, however, is where does Mozilla go from here?0

The desire of inventors is always to get their work into the market as quickly as possible. Usually this means waiting for it to be turned into a useful, profitable invention. Sixth Sense is bypassing this by going straight to open source.

Anything Google can do to make Javascript more valuable to you is in its best interests, and the tools described on its blog today are pretty marvelous.

I recently wrote this piece for MSB’S Annual Supplement.. then decided I liked it enough to post it on my Blog.. read more

What I have not seen is any reduction in intensity when I write the word Microsoft, from readers, e-mail correspondents, or the open source people I meet. Why is that, I wonder.

Here are some stunning facts that were published at the end of July in Malaysia: More than 70 percent of Malaysian government offices are running open source software, according to figures released by the country's Open Source Competency Centre. The centre was established as part of the 2004 Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan, to guide and co-ordinate the implementation of OSS in the public sector.read more

Ramji has gone from Microsoft, where everything is defined and the fight is continuous, to Sonoa Systems, where nothing is defined and contention is nebulous. It's more wide-open and, he says, more fun.

It seems the idea is to hit the low-end of the market with something that looks like an iPhone, but isn't, and a network that seems like the Internet, but isn't.

CodePlex is delivering code to the commons that might not be contributed otherwise, valuable code that can be used to build new applications.

With Zapatec, Funambol believes it can create a one-stop shop for building mobile applications that run as well as native apps across multiple platforms.

All Skype really plans to open source is a Linux version of its client. The protocol remains proprietary. So if you have a Linux phone and want to support Skype's proprietary protocol on your new hardware, you can.

Traffic Server is designed to optimize Web sites by caching popular content at the network edge, closer to users. It's not something Google needs -- they have their own solution -- but it could be very useful for relatively new, fast-growing sites.

The Open Source movement is consistent with a larger democratic proposition that the more that we can all be involved in affairs that concern them, the better off we'll all be. But sometimes the involvement of some people, whose concern is the maintenance of monopoly and control, doesn't serve the great good. Glynn Moody uncovers the sinister results that are threatening to emerge from a committee in Europe in a blog posting titled EU Wants to Re-define "Closed" as "Nearly Open". I think the EU got it right the first time in 2004, when they said this about open systems: read more