Soashable: Create Your Own Meebo with this Open Source Project
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| Meebo might not have anything to be worried about yet, but Iverson is clearly
| committed to bringing competition to the IM space. He writes:
|
| “Soashable is Open Source because I believe that any one or any company
| should be able to creating a competing product, in a cooperative way, as
| this raises the user experience bar for everyone..."
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http://mashable.com/2008/03/18/soashable/
Sun Makes Digital Archiving Free, Open With Code Donation Of Fixed Content
Object Storage System
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| One popular open source group, the Fedora Commons, will add their software
| into the Java,net and OpenSolaris communities and, at the same time, use the
| newly available source code from the StorageTek 5800 in its own product
| development.
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http://www.datastorageconnection.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7B46969358-B8C6-456C-898B-D6F80BC618CB%7D&Bucket=Current+Headlines
Sun Turns To Eclipse To Get Object/Relational Mapping
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| In seeking to keep Java standardized, Sun Microsystems has turned to an open
| source project led by Oracle for its standard for mapping software objects
| into relational databases.
|
| The process of mapping is a key one to Java programmers because objects are
| not easily translated into relational data, the way transactions are.
| Instead, they must be mapped into a table of rows and columns so that both
| the functionality of the object and its data may be reassembled.
|
| One of the more successful examples of object/relational mapping in the world
| of open source code has been JBoss's Hibernate project. With JBoss now owned
| by Red Hat, the dominant enterprise Linux distributor, Sun turned elsewhere
| for its "reference implementation" of Java object/relational mapping.
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http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206904549
Last week:
WordPress is Open Source
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| Six Apart has recently decided that the best way to win back customers
| fleeing their platforms is to target WordPress, which is a new strategy they
| call competing. (What have they been doing the past 7 years?) A good example
| is this exchange between a commenter on Valleywag and Byrne Reese, the lead
| developer of Movable Type:
|
| Sundown: “@anildash: what part of Wordpress is not open source?”
|
| byrnereese: “@Sunnduwn - I think that is a question better asked of
| Automattic. Anil, and certainly not Six Apart, has never been briefed, nor
| has anyone for that matter been presented with an accounting of what is open
| and closed source at Automattic.”
|
| Okay, here’s some accounting:
|
| WordPress is 100% open source, GPL.
|
| All plugins in the official directory are GPL or compatible, 100% open
| source.
|
| bbPress is 100% GPL.
|
| WordPress MU is 100% open source, GPL, and if you wanted you could take it
| and build your own hosted platform like WordPress.com, like edublogs.org has
| with over 100,000 blogs.
|
| There is more GPL stuff on the way, as well. :)
|
| Could you build Typepad or Vox with Movable Type? Probably not, especially
| since people with more than a few blogs or posts say it grinds to a halt, as
| Metblogs found before they switched to WordPress.
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http://ma.tt/2008/03/wordpress-is-open-source/
How The GPL Can Save Your Ass
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| If you are the multi-billion dollar IT industry you stick you head in the
| sand and just keep making cars. It is after all, not your problem. That seems
| to be the attitude of almost every company with a vested interest in the
| computing market. There was a recent announcement indicating Intel and
| Microsoft have put up $10 million to fund research in parallel software. Hah!
| I'm going to laugh harder this time HAH, HAH! Ever here the phase pissing in
| the ocean, well this is more like throwing a match into the sun. We need
| more -- much more.
|
| [...]
|
| Second, the entire in industry must co-operate and be involved. We need
| everyone working on this problem. The best minds in high performance
| computing have been at it for quite a while and it is time to turn up the
| volume. Fantasies of telling your R&D guys to get on it are not enough.
| Trying to corral your Intellectual Property (IP) with trade secrets and
| patents is wishful thinking. The rocket scientists (and plenty of other smart
| people) have been working on this issue for a long time. You don't have the
| time to waste trying to expand your IP fiefdom. Instead start thinking about
| what happens when the next generation of products is of absolutely no
| interest to your customers.
|
| Third we need to respond quickly. There is no time for IP agreements,
| posturing, and NIH ego trips (Not Invented Here). We need leaders to
| recognize the scope and magnitude of this challenge and act. Before too long,
| it will not be unreasonable to have four or even eight cores in a desktop. A
| workstation or server may have double this amount. It would sure be nice if
| my software could effectively use all these cores.
|
| [...]
|
| Using the GPL will immediately remove issues that would normally choke such
| an important undertaking. First, the any IP barriers get pushed aside and
| everyone can cooperate openly
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5379
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