Thursday, April 19, 2007
McNealy Touts Open-Source Education Site
McNealy Touts Open-Source Education Site
17 Apr 2007
Since Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder Scott McNealy stepped down as chief executive to focus on his chairmanship full-time, he's been spending a lot of time as pitchman for a project called Curriki -- short for curriculum and wiki, which is a Web site allowing users to add and modify content and claim a piece of authorship.
With Curriki, parents, teachers and students can post and download free lesson plans, sample tests, book chapters and other materials.
Read the full report from here @ MyFox Twin Cities
17 Apr 2007
Since Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder Scott McNealy stepped down as chief executive to focus on his chairmanship full-time, he's been spending a lot of time as pitchman for a project called Curriki -- short for curriculum and wiki, which is a Web site allowing users to add and modify content and claim a piece of authorship.
With Curriki, parents, teachers and students can post and download free lesson plans, sample tests, book chapters and other materials.
Read the full report from here @ MyFox Twin Cities
Labels: advocacy, education, sun-microsystems
OpenOffice deal pushes open-source to business
OpenOffice deal pushes open-source to business
China Martens, Apr 19, 2007
Open-source business intelligence (BI) software vendor Pentaho is hoping a new tie-up unveiled today with the OpenOffice.org community and Sun Microsystems will bring its BI offerings to the attention of many more new users.
Read the full report from here @ PC Advisor, UK
China Martens, Apr 19, 2007
Open-source business intelligence (BI) software vendor Pentaho is hoping a new tie-up unveiled today with the OpenOffice.org community and Sun Microsystems will bring its BI offerings to the attention of many more new users.
Read the full report from here @ PC Advisor, UK
Labels: business-intelligence, partnerships, sun-microsystems
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Sun to Contribute to Open Source Storage
Sun to Contribute to Open Source Storage
16 April 2007
Sun has said that it plans to give some of its storage software and hardware technology to the open source community. The donated technology includes Sun-only administration features of Solaris ZFS to be given over to the OpenSolaris open source community...
This will enable community members to combine OpenSolaris with hardware from any source to create storage solutions at a fraction of the price of traditional proprietary storage vendors. This combination of open source and commodity hardware could herald a new stage in the storage industry...
Read the full news item from here @ SDA Asia Magazine
16 April 2007
Sun has said that it plans to give some of its storage software and hardware technology to the open source community. The donated technology includes Sun-only administration features of Solaris ZFS to be given over to the OpenSolaris open source community...
This will enable community members to combine OpenSolaris with hardware from any source to create storage solutions at a fraction of the price of traditional proprietary storage vendors. This combination of open source and commodity hardware could herald a new stage in the storage industry...
Read the full news item from here @ SDA Asia Magazine
Labels: it-hardware, it-storage, prices, sun-microsystems
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Sun plans open source NAS?
Sun plans open source NAS?
By Beth Pariseau, 03 Apr 2007, SearchStorage.com
Sun Microsystems Inc. is planning an announcement next week on a new strategy for open source network attached storage (NAS), according to industry insiders.
The initiative, that some say is code-named FISH for fully integrated software and hardware, will feature NAS on servers running Solaris. It will include the ZFS file system and another open source performance-monitoring tool called DTrace. The goal is to generate interest in Sun's NAS storage products in the open source community where Java has already been a success.
Read the full news story from Storage Technology News @ Tech Target
By Beth Pariseau, 03 Apr 2007, SearchStorage.com
Sun Microsystems Inc. is planning an announcement next week on a new strategy for open source network attached storage (NAS), according to industry insiders.
The initiative, that some say is code-named FISH for fully integrated software and hardware, will feature NAS on servers running Solaris. It will include the ZFS file system and another open source performance-monitoring tool called DTrace. The goal is to generate interest in Sun's NAS storage products in the open source community where Java has already been a success.
Read the full news story from Storage Technology News @ Tech Target
Labels: it-networking, it-storage, sun-microsystems
Monday, April 2, 2007
A New Dawn Rising For Open Documents?
A New Dawn Rising For Open Documents?
April 3, 2007
By Jacqueline Emigh
So far, the government document landscape in the US has been overwhelmingly dominated by three proprietary formats - .DOC (Microsoft's Word document), .PPT (Microsoft's PowerPoint), and .XLS (Microsoft's Excel spreadsheets).
With the filing of a new bill in Oregon, five US states have now taken legislative action around adopting open documents. Still, government agencies in the US lag way behind those in Europe in moving beyond Windows lock-in. In one big bright note, though, the ODF (OpenDocuments Format) Alliance--a one-year-old organization backed by Microsoft rivals such as IBM and Sun--seems to be spurring a lot of positive change, says this article.
Read the full article from here @ Datamation
April 3, 2007
By Jacqueline Emigh
So far, the government document landscape in the US has been overwhelmingly dominated by three proprietary formats - .DOC (Microsoft's Word document), .PPT (Microsoft's PowerPoint), and .XLS (Microsoft's Excel spreadsheets).
With the filing of a new bill in Oregon, five US states have now taken legislative action around adopting open documents. Still, government agencies in the US lag way behind those in Europe in moving beyond Windows lock-in. In one big bright note, though, the ODF (OpenDocuments Format) Alliance--a one-year-old organization backed by Microsoft rivals such as IBM and Sun--seems to be spurring a lot of positive change, says this article.
Read the full article from here @ Datamation
Labels: documents, government, ibm, microsoft, sun-microsystems, usa
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