Software

The Free Standards Group announced this week the opening of a Linux certification lab in China. The lab will certify Linux distributions and applications to the Linux Standard Base and will be maintained by the FSG and the China Electronics Standardization Institute. It is the first certification au...

The widespread adoption of open-source software by corporations and governments has raised some security concerns in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the agency is responding. It has funded a three-year grant reportedly worth US$1.24 million to -- among other things -- set up a daily au...

The much-anticipated first draft of GNU General Public License Version 3 will be released on Jan. 16 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. However, the draft may raise more questions than answers. In fact, the debate over the content and exact wording of the license has al...

As revelers wish each other happy New Year this weekend, members of the open-source community will be reveling in events from the past year -- a year that saw their movement make significant strides in strengthening its position on the technology landscape. "This year we saw a lot of CIOs and a lot ...

Nessus, maker of one of the most popular open-source vulnerability scanner programs available, changed its licensing agreement with the release of version 3.0.0 on December 12, causing a bit of a stir among security industry players that rely on the code as a component of their commercial solutions....

Microsoft is making some moves that are making Firefox glad: killing IE for Mac and incorporating the Firefox RSS feed icon into IE version 7 for Windows. The software giant released a statement on Friday announcing it was ending Mac support for Internet Explorer. Microsoft initially warned Apple fa...

Red Hat this week announced a new service to provide full certification and production support for key open-source software stacks. Starting in early 2006, Red Hat will offer three new stacks aimed at simplifying and standardizing open-source application stacks. The company said its goal is to allow...

JBoss today said it has acquired distributed transaction monitor and Web services technologies from Arjuna Technologies and HP. JBoss plans to open-source these offerings for its Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS). JBoss executives believe the strategic move will propel JEMS further into the high-en...

Sun Microsystems this week delivered what it believes is a one-two punch in the battle to create the software platform of choice for the next-generation of the Internet. Analysts, however, are not sure the experiment will do anything beyond reducing pricing power in the field. Based on what Sun call...

After several Release Candidates, Mozilla said it would finally release the much-anticipated version of its popular open-source Web browser this evening. Firefox 1.5 will be available for free download, with details about a major marketing campaign coming as soon as later this week. "Firefox 1.5 bui...

Mozilla is doing something that no open-source Web browsing project has ever done before -- using independent filmmakers to spread the word about its next release. Call it open-source marketing. Mozilla is reportedly preparing to tap into the large community of amateur filmmakers to produce 30-secon...

Mozilla's popular open-source browser hit the open market a year ago today. Firefox is celebrating with a slew of data proclaiming its maturation in the world of Web browsing. When Firefox was introduced to the masses, Mozilla Foundation President Mitchell Baker called it a major milestone. He decla...

Open-source browser developer Mozilla was hit with some good news and some bad news this week. The good news is that the Firefox browser has gained 10 percent of the planet's browser market share, according to UK Web analytics firm OneStat.com. Further good news is that the first release of Firefox ...

Red Hat sees virtualization, stateless Linux, and developer enablement as the key drivers to reduce costs by increasing organizational efficiency and agility. So stated the Linux provider in its just-released technology plans for 2006 through 2007. "Technologies are now emerging that will make the ...

It won't help in the aftermath of hurricanes, but it could help in technology storms. Insurance underwriter Kiln plc, a Lloyd's of London underwriter and Miller Insurance Services Limited, a Lloyd's broker, said yesterday that they will offer a new product called Open Source Compliance Insurance. Op...