Compiled weekly by Raven Zachary for Enterprise Open Source Journal (EOSJ)
THIS WEEK’S TOP NEWS
SUN AND GOOGLE FORM PARTNERSHIP. Sun Microsystems and Google announce a partnership to promote Java, Google’s application initiatives, and OpenOffice. Analysts expect this partnership to lead to a web-based version of OpenOffice, hosted by Google.
CHINA PLANS MAJOR LINUX DESKTOP ROLLOUT TO [...]
We’ve posted the digital edition of EOSJ #2 on the web site. Please check it out!
If you’re a US-based subscriber, then you should be receiving your printed copy of the magazine any day now.
One of my responsibilities with Enterprise Open Source Journal (EOSJ) is the creation of the weekly Open Source Update email newsletter. I’ve been compiling this newsletter now for 28 weeks, since late March 2005. How time flies!
I will be adding the news content from these newsletters to my blog, starting this week. For those who [...]
I have just finished migrating my blog entries from EOSJ Blog to Blogger. This is a more sustainable solution, and Blogger has more features than the custom blog that was developed for EOSJ.
I will continue to cover EOSJ issues here, and we will likely link to this blog from the EOSJ site.
100 Million Dollars.
This is the amount of open source funding I have come across in my 22 weeks of compiling The Open Source Update since March 2005. This is by no means a complete survey of open source funding during the period, and this does not include any funding in the Linux hardware or hosted [...]
I recently purchased a new Intel PC to experiment with various open source operating systems, such as Linux (miscellaneous distributions), FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris. I had initially planned to use Symantec PartitionMagic to allow for multiple operating systems to be installed on the same drive using partitioning.
While my experience with PartitionMagic was positive, the process [...]
What a day!
I just returned to my hotel after a long day at the OSCON exhibit hall. Bob Thomas and I spent most of the day at the EOSJ booth, shaking hands, handing out the inaugural issue of EOSJ, and talking to advertisers and writers regarding upcoming issues. We’re on track to run out of [...]
Bob Thomas (the publisher of EOSJ) and I arrived in Portland, Oregon, today for the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON 2005). We will be at the convention center on Tuesday for meetings and booth setup. On Wednesday and Thursday, we will be at the EOSJ booth in the exhibit hall. We were able to register [...]
Enterprise Open Source Journal will be exhibiting at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon, USA, next week.
If you plan to be at the conference, please stop by the EOSJ booth in the exhibit hall and say hello!
OSCON Exhibit Hall Hours:
Wednesday, August 3: 10:00 am - 4:30 pm & 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Thursday, [...]
Dale Churchett, a former colleague at Excite (and a good friend), has posted a blog entry entitled “From Proprietary to Open Source and Experiences Along The Way“. Dale is the project lead for Hippikon, an open source authorization API for Java applications. He writes about his experience open sourcing proprietary code for the creation of [...]
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