OuterVillage.com | Technology News & Ideas – The CEO of Red Hat at the recent Open Source Business Conference claimed that open source technologies are benefiting from the unpopularity of the US. He suggests that people are resentful of sending billions of dollars back to the U.S. in intellectual property taxes. He claims that hes talked to the governments like China and Russia and they are very keen on deploying technologies that are not tied to any IP laws of the US. [...] read more
Open SourceLife Rocks! 2.0 – OpenOffice.Org 3.0 which is due in September has released a beta version. This beta release is made available to allow a users to test and evaluate the next major version of OpenOffice.org, but is not recommended for production use at this stage. OpenOffice.org 3.0 features new “Start Centre”, fresh-looking icons, and a new zoom control [...] read more
IT Blogwatch – Its IT Blogwatch: in which Sun finally releases OpenSolaris, but with a surprising, cloud-computing twist, courtesy of Amazon EC2. Not to mention a joke for Photoshop users [...] read more
Data Center Knowledge – Sun Microsystems, Inc. (JAVA) today said its OpenSolaris Operating System (OS) will be available on Amazon EC2, part of the Amazon utility computing platform. Sun also is adding premium technical support for its MySQL database running on Linux and Amazon EC2 to its global support and services… read more
