Nearly 1,000 New Developers Flock to Appcelerator After Company Announces Support for Apple’s iPad - Appcelerator, the platform for rapidly developing native mobile and desktop applications using web technologies, announced that Appcelerator Titanium would support Apple’s iPad starting in February. Continue reading ‘Open Source Products New Releases: Appcelerator, Opentaps, Selenium’
Monthly Archive for January, 2010
The second issue of the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review - a collaborative legal publication aimed at increasing knowledge and understanding among lawyers about open source - has just been released.
Continue reading ‘International Free and Open Source Software Law Review: the New Issue is Out!’
Larry Ellison tomorrow will eventually unveil Oracle + Sun strategy, while waiting I took the chance to ping my friend Carlo Piana and ask also his opinion on the European Commission’s clearance of the Oracle/Sun merger.
Continue reading ‘EU Oracle Sun Investigation: Carlo Piana’s Feedback’
Packt - the UK publishing company specialized in books on software running yearly the open source CMS award - published “Funambol Mobile Open Source“, the first ever book on Funambol server.
Stefano Fornari, CTO and co-founder of Funambol, wrote a book explaining step-by-step how to install and get started with Funambol (have a look at the Funambol mail sample chapter to get an idea). Either if you are a geek or simply interested in mobile technology, this book provides you with all necessary information about Funambol architecture, how to provide push e-mail and synchronization services or even how to develop extensions on your own.
Despite both the author and the reviewer, Alberto Falossi, are Italians, the book is written in English.
Now that the European Commission has approved the Oracle/Sun merger, while waiting Larry Ellison’s webcast about Oracle + Sun strategy update, I asked again Florian Mueller to share his opinion on Commission’s clearance of the deal.
Continue reading ‘EU Oracle Sun Investigation: Florian Mueller’s Comments the Day After the EU Deal’s Clearance’
Kaltura, the open source video platform for online video management, today officially released an open source video extension for Moodle, while only few days ago announced the release of an open source video extension for Joomla!. The growing number of plug-ins and extensions available caught my attention, and triggered in my mind the idea to ask Zohar Babin, Community Manager at Kaltura, how they prioritize among Drupal, Mediawiki, WordPress and others.
Continue reading ‘About Kaltura’s Plans for Open Source World Domination’
3.2.0 Release Candidate 2 (build OOO320_m9) - Release Notes - Have a look at OpenOffice.org 3.2.0, it is the second RC of the future feature release.
OpenOffice.org Thumbnail plugin 1.0 released - The new OpenOffice.org Thumbnail plugin - a plugin for KDE file managers to preview OpenDocument Format files as thumbnails - has been released.
UX meeting in Hamburg, Day Two - Discover what the Renaissance team is currently working on to tclean up Impress user interface.
The program of the JavaDay is now on line. A number of Italian and international gurus and developers will share their vision about Java and Java-related technologies from 9 to 14 on Saturday 30th of January, here in Rome.
Registration is free , and if you look for a job don’t forget that 15 IT companies will collect resumes!
Few days ago WaveMaker announced profitability, showing an increase on sales by over 53% in the latest quarter, eventually showing the world that the cloud is a given, and not a prediction.
Chris Keene, WaveMaker CEO, gave me some background information on how the WaveMaker open source framework later became an open cloud development platform.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Cloud: WaveMaker Makes Surfable Waves’
Stephen Walli will held the “Commercial Open Source at Work” workshop at the next Open Mobility, in March in San Francisco. The workshop is part of a joint collaboration between Stephen and myself, of which I am proud and glad.
Below the workshop summary, if you plan to go you better know early bid discount expires in 14 days.
Continue reading ‘Open Mobility USA 2010: Open Source Workshop, by Stephen Walli’
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