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Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
News One of the signs that this will take place is Moonlight - the Novell-sponsored, open source, Linux-based implementation of the Silverlight web application development platform - which Microsoft helped build. [07 Jul 2008]
Google Android facing a fragmented future?
News People have been predicting the success of open source for some time [but] fragmentation is easy, and integration is hard. Wood went on to list the extra costs of mobile open source: the costs of debugging; the loss of intellectual property through... [13 Jun 2008]
LiMo targets the business mobile
News Leach said: "For LiMo it is a validation of its collaborative-development model and the [intellectual property] safe harbour that it creates, allowing proprietary and open-source software to co-exist within a single platform. [15 May 2008]
Open source key to SaaS future
News The analyst predicts users will increasingly turn to 'application platform as a service' providers to bring in open source to help share software applications. Open source software will be key to the adoption of software as a service (SaaS) over... [16 Apr 2008]
Steve Jobs top of the Power pops
News Google's mobile-phone efforts revolve around the ongoing development of Android, an open-source platform for handsets. Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for 2007, for having "twice altered the direction of the computer industry". [29 Nov 2007]
Will Google's Android rock the mobile world?
News Instead, the company is looking to transform the mobile industry by making it easy to develop new applications that can be pushed out to hundreds of handsets on many carrier networks using free, open source technology. [06 Nov 2007]
Google to unveil mobile software suite
News Google is ready to unveil a suite of software for mobile phones based on open source technology, backed by some of the largest wireless industry companies in the world. The open source community appears to be contributing a lot of technology to... [05 Nov 2007]
Novell in the pink after bedding Gates
News Steve Harris, senior sales director for open source at Novell, said: "This [sales increase] is public endorsement that our joint engineering efforts are already paying dividends to customers operating in a mixed environment, which, by the way, is... [01 Oct 2007]
We want iPlayer for Linux and Mac fans, says BBC Trust
News The Trust described the meeting with the OSC as "useful and constructive" and added: "The Trust welcomed the OSC's offer of help to establish an open-source, cross-platform solution. The BBC and the Open Source Consortium (OSC) have met to discuss... [25 Jul 2007]
Mac virus threat still "insignificant"
News However, it was attacking the open-source office productivity suite rather than the Apple platform itself - Badbunny also affected Windows and Linux systems running OpenOffice. However, despite all these vulnerabilities, the Mac's resilient... [12 Jul 2007]
Red Hat to sell open-source buddies' wares
News Cormier said: "The value that used to come from four or five vendors now comes in one open source platform, saving tens of thousands of dollars for each server. The company will use customer feedback mechanisms to rate the open source options... [15 Mar 2007]
Sun to offer Java under Linux-friendly licence
News Not only are we making an influential and widely used software platform for the web available under an open source licence, it also underscores Sun's commitment to changing the whole industry model for how software is enhanced and developed. [13 Nov 2006]
Motorola cooking up Apache-flavoured Java
News Mark VandenBrink, a senior director and chief platform architect in Motorola Mobile Devices business, said: "Although we are not aware of Sun's open source plans, we would hope Sun would join in this effort. [02 Nov 2006]
Motorola pledges 50 per cent Linux
News Others are run at the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum, the Open Source Development Labs, and the Linux Phone Standards Forum (LiPS). But in 2007, consumers in North America and Europe will begin to see widespread Linux phones as Motorola pushes... [16 Aug 2006]
'This town is big enough for Linux and Microsoft'
News The next few years will see many companies opting to mix and match proprietary and open source software where they see fit, according to analyst group Gartner. Speaking on Thursday at the Midsize Enterprise Summit in Paris, Phil Dawson, Gartner... [23 Jun 2006]
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