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 Microsoft to sponsor the Apache Software Foundation: Microsoft Posted by: comforteagle
From the Winpache dept.:
...the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced an unexpected new sponsor: Microsoft. The Redmond software giant, which will contribute $100,000 annually to the ASF, joins Google and Yahoo as a platinum sponsor of Apache development.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7: Linux Posted by: comforteagle
From the Through the Wringer dept.:
Today we released the seventh update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, marking the point where Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 enters the autumn of its life cycle. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is now marching toward the Production 2 life cycle phase — formerly known as the “Transition” or “Deployment” phase. From this point forward, the amount of change introduced for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 minor releases is decreasing constantly as Red Hat focuses its efforts on addressing continued stabilization of the release.
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Ubuntu founder urges Linux desktop to rival Apple: Linux Posted by: comforteagle
From the Leapfrog dept.:
Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth urged development of a Linux desktop to rival what Apple Inc. has done and aired a vision of software changing the world.
Shuttleworth, speaking at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (Oscon) in Portland, Ore., yesterday, also urged development of a new revenue model to fund free software and set his sights on a services-based mechanism. He also stressed the importance of interoperability with Windows.
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Sun readies Web stack featuring choice of OSes: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the SunLamp? Bah dun pah! dept.:
Sun Microsystems Inc. is announcing on Wednesday availability of Sun Web Stack, which puts the company's own twist on the popular open-source LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Perl/Python or PHP) stack.
The company is unveiling the stack at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Ore. Also at the conference Wednesday, Sun will ship Sun OpenSSO Express, which is a version of Sun's OpenSSO (single sign-on) software featuring enterprise support and indemnification. At OSCON, Sun and Joyent Inc. will announce a social application program featuring free Web hosting.
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Drizzle: A Focused on the Web MySQL: Databases Posted by: comforteagle
From the Jenny Craig dept.:
Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL.
Drizzle will have a micro-kernel architecture with code being removed from the Drizzle core and moved through interfaces into modules. Akers has already selected particular functionality for removal: modes, views, triggers, prepared statements, stored procedures, query cache, data conversion inserts, access control lists and some data types.
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Django 1.0 alpha: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Hot Software Action! dept.:
In accordance with the Django 1.0 release roadmap, tonight we've released the first "alpha" testing version of Django 1.0. This release includes all of the major features due for inclusion in the final Django 1.0, though some lower-priority items are still scheduled to be included before the 1.0 feature freeze, which will occur with the first beta release next month.
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Firebug (Firefox Addon) Gets Dedicated Team: Mozilla Posted by: comforteagle
From the Thank You! dept.:
John Resig: I've got a mini-announcement. Starting this week about half of my time at Mozilla is going to be spent driving the direction of the brand-new Mozilla Firebug team. I'm, understandably, quite excited about this proposition. Like all web developers I've found Firebug to be an invaluable tool for web development.
We have a great team forming - I'm going to be joined by:
* Jan Odvarko - Long-time Firebug hacker.
* Rob Campbell - Mozilla hacker, tester, and tool developer. (His announcement post)
We're in a very primordial stage right now - we're meeting at the Firefox Summit at the end of the month and again at the beginning of August for the Firebug Working Group. We'll be setting some major goals for post-Firebug 1.2 development. I highly suspect that we'll be doing some exploratory Firebug extension development as well.
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Google's Android platform: not so open after all: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Who Wha!? dept.:
Google vowed that its Linux-based Android mobile platform would empower enthusiasts and amateur developers, but today we have seen compelling evidence that this is an empty promise. Third-party Android application developers, who have grown increasingly frustrated with the lack of SDK updates, were shocked to discover that Google has been secretly making new versions of the Android SDK available to the Android Developer Challenge (ADC) finalists under non-disclosure agreements.
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Firefox 3.0.1: Mozilla Posted by: comforteagle
From the Plugged Holes dept.:
As part of Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 3.0.1 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download from http://getfirefox.com/.
We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release.
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Judge Kimball Rules at Last!: Legal Posted by: comforteagle
From the Sure there will be more to come dept.:
...Judge Kimball did not change anything in his August 10th order, which I was afraid might happen. He could have, had he heard anything that he didn't know when he made that order. So, SCO breached its fiduciary duty to Novell, converted funds, and so it has to pay. That is ironic, in that this case started with SCO accusing Novell of slander of title, and asking for millions in damages. Instead it has to *pay* Novell millions.
However, Judge Kimball accepted SCO's argument that UnixWare is the latest version of UNIX and that it was the foundation of all the other agreements, even though SYSV was also involved, or so SCO thought. He accepted SCO's argument that if SCO was wrong about owning the copyrights, and it was, then it's too bad for the licensees -- they just got less than they thought they were paying for, and that is a matter for them to work through with SCO. So if EV1, for example, wanted its money back, or part of it, it would have to sue SCO.
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