Open Source

Calxeda Shows Ultra Low-Power ARM Server Prototype

Calxeda's prototype server, powered by its EnergyCard compute blades and running Ubuntu Linux and a LAMP stack, adds to the…

13 years ago

Red Hat To Offer Open Cloud Application Platform

Red Hat will offer its OpenShift cloud application platform as an alternative to VMware's vSphere, Microsoft's Azure and NASA/Rackspace's OpenStack

13 years ago

Oracle Opens Java 7 For Consumer Download

Java 7 is now available for consumers to download via the Java.com website, Oracle has revealed

13 years ago

Jimmy Wales Backs Government Scheme To Free Academic Research

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales will help get government-backed research freely available online

13 years ago

Tim Berners-Lee: Corporations Would Benefit From Releasing Their Data

The inventor of the World Wide Web says sharing is caring

13 years ago

Jury Still Mulls Decision In Oracle Versus Google Lawsuit

The jury in the Oracle versus Google lawsuit has entered its second day of deliberations, without yet reaching any decisions

13 years ago

Eucalyptus: Cloud Standards Will Emerge

Eucalyptus Systems follows Amazon's cloud standard, but CEO Marten Mickos thinks open standards will emerge

13 years ago

Jury Mulls Arguments In Oracle Versus Google Java Lawsuit

The jury in Oracle's lawsuit against Google had a few hours to begin their deliberations but reached no conclusion

13 years ago

Microsoft Open Source Unit Updates Redis

Microsoft's open source subsidiary has released its first deliverable, namely Redis on Windows

13 years ago

Schwartz And McNealy Clash In Court Over Java APIs

Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy has clashed in court with Sun's last CEO, Jonathan Schwartz

13 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: What is the source of open-source?

Test your knowledge of open source software. It's an inspiring story.

13 years ago

Conflict Of Interest Derails UK Open Source Consultation

Open source expert's Microsoft involvement takes consultation back to square one

13 years ago

Oracle Ships Java Developer Tools For Mac OS X

Oracle has for the first time released the Java development kit (JDK) and JavaFX SDK for Apple's Mac OS X

13 years ago

Ex-Google Developer Removed Java Code From Android

A former Google software architect has testified he removed part of the Java code from Android after Oracle's lawsuit

13 years ago

Eric Schmidt Insists Google Only Used API Names

Oracle has grilled Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt in court, who insisted only the names of the APIs were used

13 years ago

Toshiba Looks To SMBs With Linux Telephone System

Toshiba has partnered with Polycom to offer SMBs a Linux-based wireless telephone system

13 years ago

Could PCs-On-A-Stick Clear Up e-Waste?

Homekey's USB computer is supposed to get the older generation online, but Peter Judge thinks it could also reduce e-junk

13 years ago

HomeKey £70 PC-On-A-Stick Launched For Elders

Valerie Singleton's SimplicITy outfit has a granny-friendly Linux-based USB machine she made earlier

13 years ago

Google v Oracle Jury Must Understand Open Source

Judge and jurors will get a crash course in open source software in a case that could affect IT for…

13 years ago

Mozilla OS Phone Due Late 2012?

A phone running Mozilla's open source Boot to Gecko is set to be released in Brazil

13 years ago

Anonymous Launches Uncensored Alternative To Pastebin

AnonPaste created in reaction to Pastebin's alleged divulgence of IP addresses to authorities

13 years ago

Twitter To Sponsor Open-Source Development

Twitter looks to open up with its Apache Software Foundation support

13 years ago

Oracle Questions Google Engineer About Key Email

A Google engineer has been questioned by Oracle lawyers in court over a key email he wrote about Java alternatives

13 years ago

Patent Commentator Florian Mueller Admits Oracle Consultancy

Author of the popular FOSS Patents blog declares that Oracle 'very recently' became a consulting client of his

13 years ago

Larry Page Tells Court Google Didn’t Need Java Licence

CEO Larry Page told the court he didn't believe Google needed Java licence as it only used freely available elements

13 years ago

Sergey Brin: Apple, Facebook Comments ‘Distorted’

Sergey Brin says the media didn't give a wholly accurate representation of his thoughts

13 years ago

Larry Ellison Slams Google For Not Licensing Java

Oracle boss Larry Ellison has criticised Google for not licensing Java in Day 2 of the courtroom showdown

13 years ago

Dell Brings In CloudStack Partners

Canonical, enStratus and Mirantis are to provide products and services around Dell's OpenStack and Hadoop efforts

13 years ago

Oracle Finally Takes Google To Court

Oracle versus Google, the "World Series of court cases" starts today

13 years ago

First Raspberry Pi Systems Hit Leeds Schools

The first batch of Raspberry Pi machines make it to end users

13 years ago