In this eWEEK podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, xTuple CEO Ned Lilly explains how the current economic climate is helping to drive the open-source phenomenon into the enterprise application arena.
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Intel and Novell have announced plans to extend their existing collaboration around the Moblin open-source Linux mobile Linux platform.
- Intel and Novell have announced plans to extend their existing
collaboration around the Moblin open-source Linux mobile Linux platform.
The two companies signed an agreement outlining their plans for
collaboration, including efforts to promote the adoption of Moblin
among original equipment manu…

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 brings a variety of new features, including availability in 70 languages, privacy tools such as Private Browsing Mode, support for JSON and Web worker threads, and improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering. Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 has been under development for 10 months, and its release comes over six weeks after the Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Web browser release.
- Mozilla released Firefox 3.5
Beta 4 on April 27.
The latest beta release of the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, based on the
Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, contains a number of new features, such as availability
in 70 languages, privacy tools including a Private Browsing Mode, improvements
to th…

An open-source community expert isn’t convinced that Oracle, the prospective new owner of MySQL, Java and a host of other open-source development projects, will put the same kind of commitment into the community that Sun Microsystems does.
- With the April 20 acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle, there is an
impending change of guard involving the open-source community and its largest
enterprise supporter.

Sun has harbored more open-source projects and developers and had developed a
larger outside community than any other ma…

NEWS ANALYSIS: Oracle’s $7.4 billion Sun acquisition will put an end to one of the most successful high-tech companies in Silicon Valley history, and the inspiration for so many enterprise startups that followed in the 1990s and 2000s. But it’s a sad day most of all for the open-source community, which loses one of its strongest commercial software supporters.
- Oracle
is killing Sun Microsystems.
The two companies announced the $7.4 billion deal the morning of April 20.
For the rest of the tech industry, it’s a sad day. Dress in black and mourn.
One of Silicon Valley’s finest is gone. If the Valley
were a tree, Sun would be one of its major roots. Li…

The Linux Foundation and Novell team up to deliver Build Service, which will aid in the creation of software packages for CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise and Ubuntu.
- Recently, I wrote about the
need for Linux operating system providers to expand the range of
ready-to-install applications available for their distributions by pooling
their software packaging efforts, perhaps with the help of Novell’s OpenSUSE
Build Service project.
I was pleased to learn that…

Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 covers a lot of ground, offering organizations a menu of server roles that range from hosting traditional LAMP-type workloads to taking on Microsoft .NET applications and acting as both a host and a guest for server virtualization tasks. While eWEEK Labs found that SLES 11’s feature ambitions result in a product that’s stretched thin in some places, we found SLES 11 an apt building block for many organizations’ server platform needs. Following is a tour of SLES 11 based on eWEEK Labs’ tests. Read my review here.
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The Linux Foundation, the organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, announces it will host the Moblin project, an open Linux-based mobile project started by Intel.
- The Linux Foundation, the organization dedicated to accelerating the growth
of Linux, has announced it will host the Moblin project, an open Linux-based
mobile project started by Intel.
According to Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, quot;the
Moblin project will be support…

One of the main attractions of Linux-based netbooks is their ability to boot up almost instantly and provide quick access to Web browsers and other core applications. But what if you could give the same kind of instant-on functionality to Windows notebooks (especially older ones)? That’s the idea behind Xandros Presto, which was launched at Demo in early March. Presto installs on top of Microsoft Windows and lets users choose to quickly boot into the lightweight Linux Presto OS instead of Windows. In Presto, users can access Web browsers, instant messaging, Skype and many other applications, while still being able to access the files and folders located in the underlying Windows system. Currently a beta, Presto has some hiccups, but looks promising as a way of providing instant access to the apps we use the most.
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The latest release of Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLED 11, is probably the most Microsoft-friendly Linux desktop ever, with support for various Microsoft formats and protocols that extend the functionality of Linux desktop regulars such as OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox and Evolution. These additions, combined with Novell’s enterprise-friendly support plans, might just convince companies that the time is right to make a move from Windows.

SLED 11 has a great deal in common with the OpenSUSE 11.1 release that eWEEK Labs reviewed Feb. 17, but the biggest difference between SLED 11 and so-called community-oriented Linux options such as OpenSUSE and Ubuntu is the relatively limited selection of software packages available for SLED. eWEEK Labs Executive Editor Jason Brooks takes a look.
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