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Marten Mickos
AS Profile Marten Mickos left MySQL, the open source database company founded in 1995, at the beginning of the year, less than 12 months after it was acquired by Sun Microsystems. Of Mickos, another judge said:... [29 Sep 2009]
Linus Torvalds
AS Profile Linus Torvalds has only missed out on the Agenda Setters list twice (2006 and 2008) since it started in 2000 and returns in 2009 at a respectable 20, reflecting the continuing importance of open source... [29 Sep 2009]
Matt Mullenweg
AS Profile Texas-born Mullenweg founded Automattic in 2005 and is seen by some as one of the most influential people on the web due to the work his company has done to produce highly regarded open source blogging... [29 Sep 2009]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile Prior to joining Google in 2001, Schmidt was chairman and CEO of open source software company Novell as well as CTO at Sun Microsystems where he helped develop Java. Google CEO Eric Schmidt makes the... [29 Sep 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News The UK government may have been slow to adopt open source software but there are signs that the tide may be turning. In February the CIO Council published a policy designed to stimulate the uptake of... [29 Sep 2009]
Google's Chrome-in-IE tech means higher malware risk, says Microsoft
News Google Chrome Frame is an open source plug-in that is currently in an early developer release and was designed with security in mind from the beginning," Google said. That is a trade-off that customers... [28 Sep 2009]
Open source API to aid cloud-hopping businesses
News IBM and Microsoft have pledged support for the creation of an open source API that aims to simplify the process of switching cloud providers for organisations. Open... [24 Sep 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Google Chrome
Cheat Sheet Erm, no - Chrome is Google's open source web browser that launched around a year ago. So Google's invented its own metal now has it? Ah, I'm with you now. So what's a search company doing launching a web... [22 Sep 2009]
Nortel on Nortel: An Anti-Spam Solution That Works
White Paper It deployed an in-house, tailored, multilayered solution based on spam expertise and utilized open-source tools. On any given workday, Nortel IT blocks 97-99% of incoming spam emails, which amounts to... [19 Sep 2009]
Scammers pose as banks in live chat hack
News The scammers are using the open-source Jabber IM protocol to manage the one-on-one chat, RSA said, declining to identify the bank involved in the scam. Online scammers have created a phishing site... [18 Sep 2009]
Why malware writers are turning to open source
News Malware developers are going open source in an effort to make their malicious software more useful to fraudsters. According to Candid Wüest, threat researcher with security firm Symantec, around 10 per... [18 Sep 2009]
Red Hat Open Source Security
White Paper Open source technology gives administrators control over their infrastructure in a way that helps improve and prevent problems before they cause damaging downtime. The open... [18 Sep 2009]
The perfect storm: Why now is the time for open source
White Paper Specifically, the value proposition of low-cost, highreturn open source solutions is resonating now more than ever. Although used successfully by leading-edge companies for more than 20 years, some... [17 Sep 2009]
Open Source in the Next Computing Wave
White Paper And open source is once again playing a major role. Today, a fresh set of trends and technologies is changing the way that we build computing systems and operate them. Two of the biggest are... [16 Sep 2009]
Red Hat and Intel: Moving Intelligence Forward
White Paper Red Hat's open source, commercial-strength innovation delivers optimized results for performance, energy efficiency, and advanced virtualization on Intel platforms, all at an affordable price. Put... [16 Sep 2009]
