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Open source CMSes prove well worth the price When last surveying open source Web CMSes (content management systems) I provided some common-sense advice. For example, it's important to look for not just functionality but also frequent updates, a healthy user community, and the availability of professional support. Some points are still true today, but new offerings may get you rethinking the role of these products in your enterprise. Lawsuit charges open source license violation In what may be the first action of its kind in the United States, the Software Freedom Law Center has filed a lawsuit to enforce an open source license. September 20, 5:15 p.m. PDT Intel project aims to boost power efficiency in Linux Intel plans to announce an open-source project called LessWatts.org, which aims to improve the power efficiency of the Linux operating system and applications. September 20, 11:56 a.m. PDT Thunderbird flies: Mozilla spins off its e-mail client Mozilla spun off its Thunderbird e-mail client into a new for-profit subsidiary on Monday and seeded the unnamed company with $3 million in startup money, the open source developer announced. September 18, 6:17 a.m. PDT Best of open source applications A hunger for lighter-weight and lower-cost sales and CRM applications has brought great success to SaaS vendors such as Salesforce.com, and also lifted the fortunes of open source offerings in the space. Open source ERP has had a harder time breaking out, but here too there are several impressive offerings to choose from. And if you're looking to open source for an enterprise portal, CMS, or Microsoft Exchange substitute, you will not be disappointed.  September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Best of open source in enterprise monitoring Open source software has had a foothold in the enterprise monitoring sphere for almost as long as open source has existed. One only needs to look at the sheer ubiquity of small applications such as MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher) and its RRDTool back end to see that. What we haven't had from open source is the big application -- the comprehensive, community supported open source enterprise management suite that provides the depth and breadth of functionality that businesses need and generally find in closed-source competitors. That is changing in leaps and bounds. In fact, open source enterprise monitoring solutions are evolving so quickly, we won't even try to declare a clear winner yet -- but we're working on it. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT NetApp-Sun lawsuit seen as open-source test case A patent-infringement lawsuit filed by Network Appliance against Sun Microsystems on Wednesday could escalate beyond the storage arena to become this decade's major test case for open-source software, according to storage analysts. September 6, 6:54 a.m. PDT IBM may open source Jazz collaboration software IBM's Rational Software unit is considering putting parts of its Jazz collaboration framework into open source, according to an executive of the company. August 24, 4:20 a.m. PDT Open-source Plone content management app gets major upgrade The Plone Foundation launched a new version of its open-source content management software on Tuesday, emphasizing improvements in ease of use and the addition of automatic versioning throughout the Plone 3.0 product. August 22, 9:42 a.m. PDT Ingres adds open source BI appliance to Icebreaker database Ingres has delivered a business intelligence appliance of its Icebreaker database and Linux combination, after teaming up with JasperSoft for its open source business intelligence (BI) suite. August 22, 7:44 a.m. PDT XenSource takes on VMware with new release An upgraded version of the XenSource virtualization hypervisor out Monday closes the features gap with market leader VMware, but a wide market share gap between the two companies remains, an industry analyst says. August 12, 9:50 p.m. PDT SpikeSource CEO: Linux all grown up The recently concluded LinuxWorld Conference and Expo looked like any other big tech industry conference as the logos of Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Dell, IBM, and other big names filled the exhibit hall at San Francisco's Moscone Center. That's a change from LinuxWorld shows of a decade ago, when open source was a renegade, even subversive, concept. August 10, 4:23 p.m. PDT Changes at MySQL draw fire from community MySQL has made it harder for developers to use the enterprise edition of its database software for free, sparking a debate about whether the company has strayed from its obligation to its open-source community. August 10, 9:14 a.m. PDT VMware co-founder: Virtual appliance a threat to OS The virtual appliance model could be a major threat to operating systems from big vendors such as Microsoft, says a co-founder of VMware. August 9, 1:41 p.m. PDT HP turns to Linux for datacenter of the future Hewlett-Packard's ambition to build the "next-generation datacenter" depends on Linux and open source, an HP executive said at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo Wednesday. August 8, 5:17 p.m. PDT Dell pushes Linux into enterprises with virtualization Dell hopes to push the open source Linux operating system into the corporate desktop environment using virtualization so that alternative Linux operating systems can more easily be run alongside Windows systems from Microsoft. August 8, 2:07 p.m. PDT Oracle opens up latest Linux enhancements Oracle is busy at LinuxWorld, Wednesday opening up its latest work with the Linux community to improve the enterprise capabilities of the open-source operating system. August 8, 11:18 a.m. PDT Linux Foundation adds ace open-source attorneys to team The Linux Foundation Wednesday revealed that two attorneys well-known in the open-source community will make up the legal team for the group, which is aimed at protecting the interests of Linux in the community. August 8, 9:49 a.m. PDT Ingres names new CEO, says appliance servers coming soon Open-source database vendor Ingres appointed a new CEO on Wednesday and said its new appliance servers, which are slightly behind schedule, will be available soon. August 8, 8:45 a.m. PDT Survey: Microsoft's IIS may catch Apache in Web server market Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) continues to narrow the gap with the open source Apache Web server, with a survey firm suggesting that the longtime second banana could surpass Apache as early as next year. August 8, 8:35 a.m. PDT IBM, Novell strengthen desktop, server ties IBM and Novell are beefing up their existing partnership on two fronts with Linux distributor Novell increasing support for IBM's Notes desktop collaboration software and its open-source WAS CE (WebSphere Application Server Community Edition). August 7, 11:35 a.m. PDT Indian agency to deploy Linux in schools The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) is deploying Suse Linux Enterprise across 30,000 desktops and 1,880 servers in schools in southern India. August 7, 11:26 a.m. PDT OSA debuts CCV interoperability prototype Nonprofit vendor consortium the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) made good on its April promise to deliver a prototype demonstrating interoperability between open source and proprietary business applications in time for LinuxWorld this week. August 7, 9:18 a.m. PDT Dell, Red Hat mix and match OS and application stack Red Hat and Linux continued its move up and down the enterprise operating stack with the announcement this week by Dell that it would offer its customers the Red Hat middleware stack on Dell PowerEdge servers. August 7, 6:00 a.m. PDT Google ups Linux support as OIN licensee Google has increased its support for the open-source Linux operating system by becoming Open Invention Network's first end-user licensee. Set up in 2005, OIN is an intellectual property company focused on acquiring and pooling patents to protect Linux against patent infringement attacks. August 7, 5:35 a.m. PDT Red Hat Global Desktop is delayed Red Hat has released more details about its plans for Linux on the desktop, including news of a launch delay. August 6, 8:15 a.m. PDT Open source lands in the enterprise with both feet Looking at the slew of new product announcements coming out of the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco this week, some industry analysts are saying we are witnessing the last mile in the commoditization of the operating system. August 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT The ABC's of RIA Rich Internet applications, or RIAs, comprise a spectrum of application types and technologies. The lightweight end of the spectrum is anchored by AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) or Web 2.0 applications, which add richness and responsiveness to standard Web sites with asynchronous JavaScript libraries: that's the "AJA" part of "AJAX." The "X" stands for "XML," but these days XML is not the only data format used by such libraries; it's also common to see asynchronous data exchange in JSON, HTML, and plain text formats. At this point, many people have stopped treating "AJAX" as a specific acronym and talk instead about the generic "Ajax" class of applications. August 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Open source joins the mainstream As more than 11,000 attendees converge on San Francisco for the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, beginning Monday, one industry analyst says customers are evaluating open source software the same way they evaluate proprietary software: It has to be priced right and work right. August 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT SourceForge unveils winners of 'open source Oscars' Popular open source software development site SourceForge.net hosted the equivalent of the open source Oscars on Thursday evening, billing the event as a big party, not a painfully long and formal awards ceremony. July 27, 4:48 a.m. PDT Mozilla may separate from Thunderbird to focus on Firefox The Mozilla Foundation is thinking about creating a separate organization to take control of its Thunderbird e-mail application, allowing it to concentrate on development of the Firefox Web browser. July 26, 5:58 a.m. PDT User pressure leads SugarCRM to adopt GPLv3 SugarCRM is to adopt version 3 of the GNU general public license (GPLv3) for the next release of its open source CRM software after coming under pressure from its user community to move away from its own Sugar Public License. July 25, 1:33 p.m. PDT You're never alone with Plone Ask Plone users what they like best about the open source content management software and chances are a key feature they'll list along with ease of use and multilingual support is the community of experts that's grown around the product. July 24, 1:39 p.m. PDT IBM, University of Florida team up on healthcare IBM and the University of Florida believe they've come up with middleware that will allow doctors to remotely monitor the health of their patients. July 24, 8:30 a.m. PDT Ready, steady... Sprint! Creating open-source ECM Holding focused meetings, also known as "sprints," over several days to develop, test, and document software is proving very helpful to the open-source Plone community in quickly adding more functionality to its content management software. July 20, 10:13 a.m. PDT TurboLinux to help translate Open XML for Asia Microsoft is enlisting Linux distributor TurboLinux to help tailor work being done to translate documents between Open XML and ODF file formats for Japanese and Chinese users. July 10, 5:38 a.m. PDT Sun to donate Cluster code to OpenSolaris community Sun Microsystems on Wednesday will begin donating its Solaris clustering code to the open-source community, the latest move in the company's ongoing strategy to eventually make all of its software freely available. June 27, 5:04 a.m. PDT Microsoft inks Linux patent deal with Linspire Linspire has signed an intellectual-property agreement with Microsoft that shields the Linux company's customers from patent claims. June 14, 5:02 a.m. PDT Schwartz to Torvalds: Dinner at my place? A day after Linux creator Linus Torvalds publicly questioned the authenticity of Sun's interest in serving the open-source community, Sun CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz invited Torvalds for a sit-down over dinner to discuss how Sun and the overseers of the Linux kernel can join forces. June 13, 3:55 p.m. PDT New York becomes latest state to ponder ODF New York has become the latest U.S. state to ponder whether to use open standards for government document formats, though the move is not necessarily good news for proponents of the ISO standard ODF (Open Document Format). June 7, 11:23 a.m. PDT It takes a wired village It's impressive that there are 2 billion people connected to the Internet, but having 4 billion not connected is a social issue. June 7, 8:51 a.m. PDT Red Hat to assist open source adoption in Indian state Red Hat is to help the communist government of Kerala, in southwestern India, to deploy open-source software in its e-governance and literacy efforts. June 5, 6:51 a.m. PDT Xandros joins Novell in licensing Microsoft IP Microsoft has signed another Linux distributor to a patent-licensing and collaboration deal similar to the one it struck with Novell last year. June 4, 7:59 a.m. PDT FSF issues 'last-call' GPLv3, encourages adoption The Free Software Foundation has released the fourth or "last-call" draft of the third version of its GNU general public license, set a date for its official publication, and laid out reasons why the free and open source software community should adopt GPLv3 sooner rather than later. May 31, 1:01 p.m. PDT TurboLinux Wizpy to launch worldwide in June The TurboLinux Wizpy, a multimedia player that contains a PC-bootable version of the Linux operating system, will go on sale worldwide in June. May 31, 4:42 a.m. PDT Novell goes public with terms of Microsoft Linux deal Novell has published details of its landmark November 2006 Linux partnership agreements with Microsoft. May 25, 6:19 p.m. PDT VA Software becomes Sourceforge Inc. One of the survivors of the early days of Linux has changed its name and folded its software division in favor of doing business entirely on the Web. May 24, 4:09 p.m. PDT Ubuntu founder: Microsoft is our patent pal Microsoft is not the real patent threat Linux and open source developers should be worried about, said Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. In fact, the software giant will itself be fighting against the software patents system within a few years, Shuttleworth predicted. May 23, 8:16 a.m. PDT GPL author: Google must share code Companies like Google that build their business on software such as Linux have a moral imperative to contribute back to the free software community, a prominent open-source advocate said Tuesday. May 23, 4:12 a.m. PDT MuleSource: Lightweight integration for heavyweight companies What do you get when a Swiss Army knife meets enterprise software? That's the pitch from MuleSource, an open source startup that's striving to bring flexibility, speed, and low cost to the complex world of large-scale integration. May 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT Open-source firms MuleSource, Zmanda net extra funding Two open-source companies had reason to celebrate Tuesday as each announced more venture capital funding to grow their businesses. May 22, 12:27 p.m. PDT Linux users say 'Sue me first, Microsoft' In an unconventional request, some users of Linux and other open-source software are inviting Microsoft to sue them. May 22, 4:40 a.m. PDT Hyperic: Open sourcing systems management Many a successful startup owes its creation to a wild gamble that paid off. Think about Andy Bechtolsheim's $100,000 bet on Google, a promising search company that didn’t even have a bank account yet. May 22, 3:00 a.m. PDT Dell Linux machines to debut Thursday Dell is expected to begin selling on Thursday three models of its long-awaited laptop and desktop computers loaded with Ubuntu Linux. May 21, 2:53 p.m. PDT How risky is open source? Even as its adoption in the enterprise has exploded, open source software remains dogged by questions regarding its legal status. Most recently, Microsoft has claimed that open source violates no fewer than 235 software patents. May 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT Open source takes center stage "I can think of only two industries that refer to customers as users. One of them is IT." That particular gem comes from Anne Thomas Manes, research director at The Burton Group, one of the star speakers at last week's SOA Executive Forum in New York. (For those of you who missed the event, we'll be posting many of the presentations online, at SOAExecForum.com later this week.) May 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT Hilf: Microsoft won't sue over Linux, for now Microsoft ignited hostility following its assertion in Fortune magazine on Monday that Linux and other open-source software infringe on 235 of the company's patents. The software giant, which signed a controversial patent cross-licensing deal with Novell last November, is encouraging other companies to reach licensing agreements to resolve intellectual property claims. It has made companies nervous about whether they could eventually be targeted by lawsuits from Microsoft. May 17, 7:49 a.m. PDT Microsoft patent claims complicated by GPLv3 The expected approval of the GPLv3 (GNU General Public License version 3) could further muddy the waters for Microsoft's claims it will collect payment on its patents for Linux technology, as there is a question about whether the company's interoperability deal with Novell will violate the forthcoming final draft. May 16, 2:16 p.m. PDT Norway likely to mandate open document formats Norway is considering mandating the use of the Open Document Format (ODF) and Portable Document Format (PDF), which could eventually reduce the use of Microsoft's Office software in the country. May 15, 6:35 a.m. PDT Samba developers quash serious bug Users of the open-source Samba software are being urged to patch their code following the discovery of a critical bug in the file-and-print software. May 15, 4:28 a.m. PDT Open-source users, companies scoff at Microsoft threats Open-source supporters are thumbing their noses at Microsoft Corp.'s claim that it will seek royalties from users and distributors on 235 patents it holds for technologies in Linux and open-source software, saying they are not worried about being the target of litigation for patent infringement. May 14, 11:24 p.m. PDT Microsoft's patent hard line hardest on startups Microsoft Corp.'s threat to sue open source software users who violate its patents could be hardest on startups and smaller companies unable to take on the software giant, business and legal observers say. May 14, 10:50 p.m. PDT Microsoft demands royalties for open source software Microsoft reportedly wants open source software users to pay royalties on 235 alleged patent violations. May 14, 4:19 a.m. PDT Q&A: GlassFish shows open source at its best GlassFish is the first project to spring from Sun's decision to open source its Java programming code, and Ken Drachnik, one of its chief evangelists, points to the project as a lesson in how open source spurs innovation. May 9, 4:02 p.m. PDT Sun partners with Ericsson on Java platform Sun is collaborating with Ericsson to support development of Java-based server applications that can run on wireless networks. The announcement was made at the JavaOne 2007 conference Tuesday in San Francisco. May 8, 4:10 p.m. PDT Sun: The bulk of Java is open sourced Sun Microsystems announced Tuesday it has finished the process of making the bulk of its core Java technology available as open-source software under the GNU general public license version 2 (GPLv2). The vendor made the announcement at its JavaOne conference in San Francisco. May 8, 4:21 a.m. PDT Ubuntu plans mobile Linux version Ubuntu Linux developers plan to extend its open source software development to handheld Internet-enabled devices. May 7, 9:37 a.m. PDT Comcast works on dashboard with Zimbra Comcast has turned to open-source software vendor Zimbra to help supply some of the technology behind the U.S. cable provider's upcoming free SmartZone communications dashboard for its broadband users. May 7, 4:42 a.m. PDT SugarCRM: Open source on the fast track The cost and complexity of CRM has long stymied IT, but John Roberts, Clint Oram, and Jacob Taylor believed there was a better way. So in the spring of 2004, all three quit CRM software vendor E.piphany and -- after just three months of coding -- launched the Sugar open source project. May 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Berlin says 'nein' to open-source migration The German federal government in Berlin, which is an advocate for open-source software in the public sector, may have some lobbying to do at its own front door. May 3, 9:50 a.m. PDT Falcon to be the major piece of MySQL 6.0 The most significant development in the next major release of MySQL's open source database, MySQL 6.0, will be the inclusion of the vendor's homegrown Falcon storage engine, according to company CEO Marten Mickos. April 26, 1:30 p.m. PDT Adobe to open-source Flex SDK by end of year In an effort to build a larger community of developers for its Flex environment, Adobe Systems said Thursday it plans to open-source the Flex software development kit (SDK), designed to let developers build multimedia-rich Internet applications, by the end of the year. April 26, 4:28 a.m. PDT Red Hat to acquire MetaMatrix Red Hat said Tuesday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the business of MetaMatrix, a provider of data management and integration software. April 24, 9:21 a.m. PDT Sun, Canonical strengthen Ubuntu ties Sun and Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced Thursday a further deepening of their existing partnership. April 19, 11:25 a.m. PDT Open-source group takes first interoperability steps Nonprofit consortium the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) has begun making moves to increase businesses' use of open-source software. April 19, 9:31 a.m. PDT Mozilla releases Thunderbird 2 e-mail client Mozilla unveiled the final version of its open-source Thunderbird 2 e-mail client on Thursday, improving how users can organize and label their messages. April 19, 7:12 a.m. PDT Microsoft releases Media Player plug-in for Firefox Microsoft, as part of its outreach to the open-source community, has released a new official Windows Media Player plug-in for Firefox 2.0 that resolves problems with the older one. April 17, 4:19 a.m. PDT Open-source project aims to erase e-voting fog Joseph Kiniry, a computer science lecturer at University College Dublin, seems an unlikely candidate to work on open-source voting software. April 16, 8:15 a.m. PDT Sun buys mobile phone software maker SavaJe Sun said Thursday it plans to acquire the intellectual property of SavaJe Technologies, a provider of Mobile Java application development tools. April 12, 3:04 p.m. PDT Iona buys open-source SOA company Iona Technologies has acquired open-source software company LogicBlaze, its second acquisition in as many months to help grow its SOA business. April 10, 8:15 a.m. PDT Closing a chapter of open source By now you will have heard the news: InfoWorld has closed down its print edition and moved to a Web-only model. Over the coming weeks and months, InfoWorld will continue to evolve to take better advantage of the online medium. You can expect many changes -- some subtle, others less so. For example, this will be the last edition of Open Enterprise. April 9, 3:00 a.m. PDT XenSource expands its virtualization capabilities A new version of the XenSource virtualization hypervisor, released Monday, now works on servers running the Windows 2000 operating system from Microsoft. April 2, 4:41 p.m. PDT Red Hat CEO undaunted by Oracle, Microsoft Red Hat's latest financial results prove the company can withstand new competitive challenges, according to Matthew Szulik, the company's chairman and CEO. March 30, 4:24 a.m. PST Red Hat says Yahoo relationship intact Tough competition appears to be driving profits down for Red Hat, but the company has hung onto one marquee customer, Yahoo, despite recent reports to the contrary. March 29, 5:06 p.m. PST GPLv3 third draft: Linus likes it, ACT hates it Initial reactions to the latest proposed draft of a popular license for FOSS (free and open source software) have been wide-ranging, with the changes winning some kind words from the creator of Linux and a critical bashing from an industry association. March 28, 12:14 p.m. PST Sun to close Solaris 'usability gap' Ian Murdock says he drew a lot of puzzled looks from his colleagues in the Linux community when he joined Sun Microsystems Inc. in its newly created position of chief operating platforms officer. "What's a Linux guy doing at Sun?" he was asked. March 28, 10:24 a.m. PST GPLv3 takes hard line on MS, Novell deal The Free Software Foundation Wednesday released the penultimate draft of its planned third version of a popular license for free and open-source software, the GNU general public license (GPL). March 28, 9:29 a.m. PST ODF group a year old, but format still unproven Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of the ODF Alliance, an international group of organizations dedicated to promoting ODF (Open Document format for XML) as an international standard for document formats. But while the group has encouraged public agencies across the world to enact policies to support open IT standards over the last year, ODF supporters have more work to do to increase the adoption of alternatives to Microsoft's Office suite, industry watchers said. March 27, 4:45 p.m. PST Linux Foundation announces new board The recently formed Linux Foundation, a merger of two Linux evangelizing industry consortiums, named its 15-person board of directors Tuesday. Along with executives from IT firms, the board also features the founder of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, a leading end-user of open-source software, and a lawyer whose work is focused on consortiums and standards development. March 27, 9:59 a.m. PST Delayed GPLv3 third draft to debut Wednesday Months later than had been expected, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) intends to release the third draft of its GNU general public license version 3 (GPLv3) on Wednesday. The organization now also plans a final "last-call" draft following feedback on the third draft. March 27, 7:59 a.m. PST Mr. Gates, tear down this wall IBM's latest filing in the SCO case looks particularly damning; it may finally be curtains for SCO. But even if the judge dismisses the suit tomorrow, Linux customers won't be able to rest easy. As Bruce Perens reminds us, the Microsoft/Novell partnership has brought a host of new intellectual property issues to bear. And so, the cold war between Microsoft and open source software lumbers on into another year. March 26, 3:00 a.m. PST Novell, Red Hat bring Linux updates to desktops Open-source rivals Novell and Red Hat are each highlighting initiatives to bring Linux-based functionality to the desktop. March 22, 2:46 p.m. PST SugarCRM update due in beta next month SugarCRM plans to ship the beta version of Sugar 5.0 next month, an upgrade to its open-source CRM software that should make it easier for companies to extend the product with third-party applications, company executives said Wednesday. March 21, 12:11 p.m. PST Collax puts Web face on application management Linux vendor Collax wants use the Web interface it has built for managing small-business servers to manage applications from other vendors too. March 19, 4:42 a.m. PST Open source VoIP makes the business connection Nearly three years since Jon “maddog” Hall predicted that “VoIP using an open source solution, such as Asterisk, will generate more business than the entire Linux marketplace today,” open source VoIP for the enterprise remains a wild frontier. SMB uptake has been considerable, as open source VoIP’s promise of control and cost savings make it a natural fit. But when it comes to large-scale implementations, open source voice has yet to get most enterprises to listen. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Lending ear to open source VoIP Whereas commercial VoIP vendors typically supply their own phones, tying them to their IP PBXes for solid integration and providing phone setup, configuration, and maintenance as part of their packages, when it comes to deploying an open source VoIP solution such as Asterisk, it’s strictly a BYOP (bring your own phone) affair. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Case study: Asterisk proves its worth Despite Digium’s current positioning of Asterisk for the midmarket, plenty of large-scale implementations speak to the scalability and versatility of the open source IP PBX. One such rollout — that of Summer Bay Resorts, a time-share vacation property company — provides ample evidence that if the phone is the lifeblood of your business, Asterisk is more than up to the task. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Adventures in Asterisk deployment It seems I eat so much of my own dog food these days that I don’t have time to enjoy a nice steak every now and again. My experience with Asterisk hasn’t been any different. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST VoIP’s mad scientist Some stories are a labor of love. “Open Source VoIP Makes the Business Connection” is one of them. The love, in this case, originates with Senior Contributing Editor Paul Venezia. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Are you an open source user or joiner? In my previous column, I touched on the issue of what constitutes an open-source vendor. Ask Andy Astor that question, and his answer is a shrug. "Honestly," he says, "who cares?" To Astor, there are really two broad categories of companies with respect to their relationship to open-source code. Some are users. Others are joiners. March 12, 3:00 a.m. PST > Applications |
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