Firefox 3.5 final prepped to ship early next week
Paula Rooney: The Mozilla team made available another release candidate of Firefox 3.5 last night. But RC3 is of little interest. What’s most exciting is news that Firefox 3.5 will ship early next week. That’s the pledge of the development team, which indicated its final ship plans after meeting this week. Firefox 3.5 should be considered a major update to [...]
Thu Jun 25 13:53:43 PDT 2009
At what stage of life is the open source industry?
Dana Blankenhorn: Every industry goes through life stages, just like people. At what stage is open source at, now, in the middle of 2009?
Thu Jun 25 08:40:52 PDT 2009
Reductive to service Puppet open source configman tools
Paula Rooney: Key founders of Puppet have incorporated and received $2 million in venture capital funding to advance the open source configuration management software project. Reductive Labs, ?which has evolved from the same named consulting firm founded in 2003, will provide training, service and support for Puppet, the next generation open source infrastructure automation framework which is reportedly [...]
Wed Jun 24 11:46:47 PDT 2009
Zoho embraces Sharepoint lock-in
Dana Blankenhorn: Zoho, which offers Office-compatible applications as services, is now offering a version of Sharepoint, aimed at extending Microsoft's lock-in of customers.
Wed Jun 24 06:17:57 PDT 2009
Intel-Nokia deal boosts open source
Dana Blankenhorn: The Nokia alliance, combined with Far East manufacturing, give Intel a chance to innovate on a major player's behalf and gain a place at the smartphone table. But time is of the essence, because the market is ebbing away fast.
Tue Jun 23 13:21:32 PDT 2009
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Tue Jun 23 07:02:02 PDT 2009
How friendly is the Movable Type fork?
Dana Blankenhorn: For Movable Type to advance against WordPress, it needs this fork to succeed.
Tue Jun 23 07:02:02 PDT 2009
Can open source police open source?
Dana Blankenhorn: When a proprietary code base becomes popular, its owner brings in the cash necessary to defend their position in court. This is not automatic in the open source world, which thus remains vulnerable to small time scams.
Tue Jun 23 06:27:34 PDT 2009
First release candidate of Firefox 3.5 posts Friday as expected
Paula Rooney: The Mozilla team reached a major milestone Friday by making available the first release candidate of Firefox 3.5. As expected, version 3.5 Release Candidate 2 was released after 4 pm on June 19th. Earlier in the week, the Firefox team released second builds of RC1 to about 800,000 existing beta testers. On Friday, RC2 became officially available [...]
Mon Jun 22 12:07:12 PDT 2009
Creative destruction in Canada
Dana Blankenhorn: Canada is much better off nurturing entrepreneurs than trying to bail out the past.
Mon Jun 22 07:50:01 PDT 2009
Channel ambition is not a conspiracy
Dana Blankenhorn: A monopolistic practice occurs when two sides are offering the same deal and one side gets all the business. But in this case both sides were not offering the same deal. Microsoft offered channel support, Linux a hearty handshake and rhetoric about freedom.
Mon Jun 22 06:21:20 PDT 2009
How much do desktops matter?
Dana Blankenhorn: It's obvious that the only way to achieve device unity is online. One operating system is not going to bind our futures. You may choose to live in a Windows world, but each part of that world must compete with components running something else.
Fri Jun 19 06:22:07 PDT 2009
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