Salivating about Open Source Software - Pavlov’s conditioning?

December 18th, 2004 Some interesting quotes from the article: FIREFOX is a classic overnight success, many years in the making. Firefox is a Web browser that is fast and filled with features that Microsoft's stodgy Internet Explorer lacks.

April 1st, 2006 In a significant (read earth shattering for Java community worldwide) move Sun has announced their decision to open source Java technologies. The JCP will be disbanded in favor of open source bazaar model.

February 9th, 2006 The title is inspired by Dr. Richard Stallman's article - Free But Shackled - The Java Trap.

December 19th, 2004 Here's some interesting observations from the article: FIREFOX is a classic overnight success, many years in the making. Firefox is a Web browser that is fast and filled with features that Microsoft's stodgy Internet Explorer lacks.

June 29th, 2006 Simon Phipps, chief open-source officer for Sun, said the Sun is "months" away from releasing its trademark Java programming language under an open-source license. He said Sun is ruminating over two major issues: how to keep Java compatible and ensure no particular company uses market forces as muscle for its own implementation, a move that would threaten Java's "write once, run anywhere" mantra.

July 17th, 2006 Today's bot / malware writers are leveraging open source tools and development models to improve their bots according to McAfee. Unlike viruses of the past, bots tend to be written by a group of authors, who often collaborate by using the same tools and techniques as open source developers, said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager with McAfee's Avert Labs.

October 23rd, 2008 Google Android finally delivers what was promised at the very beginning. While everyone was speculating if Android is going to be an open source platform, they have come out with Android Open Source Project, which will give public at large the opportunity to make contributions.

May 9th, 2005 Which JVM do you want to use today?

September 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Stanford scientists may revolutionize digital photography with the aid of an open-source digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks. Marc Levoy, professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering, says if the technology catches on, camera performance will be no longer be limited by the software that comes pre-installed by the manufacturer.

July 12th, 2009 KOCHI - The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), The Advanced Center for Informatics and Innovative Learning (ACIIL) and IBM India have signed an MoU that would re-invent IT education in the country. As a part of the MoU, IGNOU and IBM India would partner each other skills to students on IT standards in emerging verticals like healthcare, financial services and retail that have a significant growth potential, in addition to providing open source software skills and open standards, with live projects.

December 28th, 2005 SwingLabs is an Open Source laboratory for exploring new ways to make Swing applications easier to write, with improved performance and greater visual appeal. It is an umbrella project for various Open Source initiatives sponsored by Sun Microsystems and is part of the java.net community.

September 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new software, designed by optical scientists, is likely to revolutionise photography by teaching the camera new tricks. Its performance will then be no longer limited by the software pre-installed by the manufacturer.

July 2nd, 2005 Sun Microsystems is looking at providing its Java Enterprise System (J2EE) customers with a database management solution that will either take advantage of existing open-source database management technologies or developed in-house. I think they should leverage from some high quality open source database management solutions rather than re-inventing the wheel.

September 21st, 2007 Do you know about the other Fedora, the open source software repository? Fedora open source software gives organizations a flexible service-oriented architecture for managing and delivering their digital content. At its core is a powerful digital object model that supports multiple views of each digital object and the relationships among digital objects.

September 3rd, 2009 EU probes Oracle's bid to buy SunBRUSSELS — European Union regulators on Thursday launched an antitrust probe into U.S. software maker Oracle Corp.'s takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc., saying they wanted to make sure Oracle was committed to developing Sun's rival open-source database software MySQL.