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Mobile infrastructure vendor Urban Airship of Portland delivered 100 million messages before taking its first outside funding today, a $1.1 million injection from two Seattle venture capitalists. But what CEO and co-founder Scott Kveton wants you to know about his four-man company is they're using open source. "We take advantage of a lot of open source tools to do what we do. We couldn't have done this five years ago." That's an unintended double entendre, albeit entirely clean. Phones like the iPhone made his business possible, but Kveton also wanted us to know open source tools were not as good back then. (Yes, we're talking about 2005. Kelly Clarkson dominated the airwaves, Shrek 2 dominated the box office, people were still hanging on library ...
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After a lull where few new open-source vendors were signing patent-protection deals with Microsoft, the pace has begun to pick up again. On August 26, Tuxera Ltd anounced it has signed an intellectual-property (IP) licensing agreement with Microsoft; joined Microsoft's exFAT driver-licensing program; and joined the Microsoft Interop Vendor Alliance. Tuxera, based in Helsinki, Finland, was founded by the NTFS-3G open-source project. As a result of the deal, Tuxera is claiming to be the first independent software vendors to offer exFAT drivers. From Tuxera's press release: "Tuxera has now access to the exFAT specifications, Microsoft s source code implementation of exFAT, and testing and verification tools. Tuxera exFAT for Embedded Sytems will be first available for Linux." Tuxera CEO Mikko Valimaki added that Tuxera "cannot ...
Exclusive Q&A with Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation
'We continue to struggle a bit with what developers think 'Eclipse' means. They have heard of it, but they believe that we are entirely focused on Java tools when in fact we are doing so much more,' says Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, in this exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geelan. 'Our goals at Eclipse are to create an industrial-strength open source development platform that spans extensible tools, frameworks and runtimes,' Milinkovich adds.read more
Open source's evolving marketing message - CNET News
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Open source's evolving marketing messageCNET News, CAby Matt Asay For years, open-source advocates like myself have fixated on freedom. "Don't get locked in!" has been our rallying cry to the teeming masses, yearning to be free from the shackles of proprietary lock-in. "Stop feeding your firstborn sons ...Could you switch over to being 100% open source?ZDNet BlogsTime for Canada's government to open upGlobe and MailA Guide to Open Source Software SecurityPrincipiaall 6 news articles
Ubuntu 8.04 Now Available On click2try's Online Open Source Catalog - TMCnet
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Ubuntu 8.04 Now Available On click2try's Online Open Source CatalogTMCnetBy Calvin Azuri click2try has announced it has made Ubuntu (News - Alert) 8.04 available in its online catalog of virtualized Open Source applications. click2try is a community website that enables users to try applications for free and use by ...click2try(TM) Helps Users Run Ubuntu Directly from Open Source CatalogPR Newswire (press release)Will Ubuntu remain a minor playerZDNetUbuntu added to online preview siteeWeekall 15 news articles
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