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Work underway to keep Xen support in Fedora 13
Open Source Subnet blog: On Monday, Fedora 13 was released and it was chock full of features to appeal to the enterprise. There is good news/bad news for Fedora lovers who prefer the Xen hypervisor. Read More


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Databases Are The Bottleneck In The Cloud. Terracotta Is The Open Source Answer
Alan Shimel: So you think you can just take that MySQL or Oracle database with all of that data that you have been using for 4 years or more and transfer it up to the cloud? Cloud don't work like that. But Terracotta does. Read More

Microsoft uses open source to make Outlook data portable
Amy Vernon: Microsoft announced two more open-source projects today, which will give developers the ability to access data from the widely used (and hacked) Outlook program. Read More

Don't Talk The Talk, Without Walking The Walk
Alan Shimel: One thing I have learned in years of writing "on the public record" is that if you have to be very careful when you make statements about companies positions. Read More

Can Open Science Be More Successful Than Greed?
Alan Shimel: The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Read More


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An Open Web App Store could eliminate interoperability problems
Amy Vernon: An Open Web App Store could revolutionize the booming app business, or it could be a crushing failure - due to no fault of its own. A post this week on the Mozilla blog details what the foundation proposes. Read More

Winner and Still Champ, DotNetNuke
Alan Shimel: When I started writing about commercial open source companies that have been successful selling to the enterprise, several comments pointed to DotNetNuke. Read More

Rackspace powers Windows cloud with Citrix Xenserver
Jon Brodkin: Rackspace has built its Windows-based cloud service on top of Citrix's XenServer hypervisor, rather than the more basic open source version of Xen, and plans to move its whole cloud infrastructure over to XenServer. Read More

One Mighty Big Cup o' Froyo
Mark Murphy: Google put out many a hint earlier this year that they were going to cut back to two Android releases per year, versus the eight they shipped in 16 months previously. If today's Google I|O keynote is indicative of the scope of Android advancement per release, those will be very large releases. Read More


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Do The Laws Of Robotics Apply To Google? WebM May Test It
Alan Shimel: Google now finds itself in a R. Daneel Olivaw -like conundrum regarding the VP8 video codec and the future of video on the web. Read More

Chrome browser exits beta for Mac, Linux for the first time
Google has removed the beta label from the latest version of its Chrome browser, marking the first time a "stable release" is available for the Linux and Mac OS platforms, not just Windows. Read More

Microsoft uses Apache License for open source Outlook tools
Microsoft has released two open source tools on CodePlex that let developers more easily create apps for Outlook PST files. Those tools are not only open source, they've been released under the Apache License (instead of one of Microsoft's own two open source licenses). The tools follow Microsoft's February release of full documentation for its Outlook 2010 .PST files. Read More

7 open source innovations on the cutting edge
Think open source doesn¿t innovate? Think again. Here are seven projects that are exploring exciting new directions in computing -- for free Read More

Novell unveils new version of Identity Manager
Last week Novell brought BrainShare back to Europe after a four year absence. But the gathering in Amsterdam almost didn't happen, as the Icelandic ash cloud closed Amsterdam's Schiphol airport two days before the conference was to begin. I heard lots of stories about people scrambling for ways to get to the city. But it did get going on time and, I'm really happy to say, it looks like Novell is back. Read More

Red Hat exec: Oracle's not an open source company
Red Hat disses Oracle, and expounds on its open source strategy. Read More



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