open source

451 CAOS Theory: "A couple of articles have been published recently that point to a growing realisation/admission about the role that open source will play in the future of enterprise software."

The Open Road: "Open-source vendors start making money from their customer base precisely at the point that the customer base is least likely to renew."

OStatic: ""...Open source does not need consolidation. Open source needs product managers." Product managers, of course, drive improvements in commercial and proprietary software products, and listen carefully to what businesses need."

About: Acidblood is an open source IRC robot written for Unix. Its features include channel and user management.

Mesa 7.1 has been in development for a number of months already with the first release candidate having come out in May.

However, this update to the open-source 3D graphics library has been delaying the release of X.Org 7.4 as it's a dependency for building the X Server.

With the release of Mesa 7.1, X.Org 7.4 has finally been given a green light!

Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings.

The target is businesses which are heavy users of Linux and open source in their enterprise computing systems.

Xen.org, the home of the open source Xen project, has announced the release of Xen 3.3 engine, the latest version of the open source hypervisor.

Though sales of the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable are strong, there are many who use the devices exclusively for homebrew applications.

Following up from Part 1 of the interview, in this second installment, Scott McNealy discusses his views on open source, what he's most proud of in his career and what he would have liked to have done ...