Open Source Insider

April 2011

• The Apple Android amalgamation situation

  Adrian Bridgwater 29 Apr 2011

RunRev's LiveCode development platform has this week been augmented with an Android package.

• Orchard's free, open source content management system

  Adrian Bridgwater 27 Apr 2011

Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused project aimed at the ASP.NET platform. Orchard 1.1 is a .NET-based CMS (content management system) application designed to allow users to create ...

• Poised for growth? Twidroyd & Twitter clients for Android

  Adrian Bridgwater 26 Apr 2011

If you are going to develop the next big thing, the next Twitter client for Android, or the next Twitter-killer itself even -- then think about Twitter policy compliance, or you could come unstuck.

• Openoffice.org regains community-based pedigree

  Adrian Bridgwater 17 Apr 2011

OpenOffice.org has regained its status as a purely community-based open-source project as Oracle drops its commercial version of the productivity suite.

• Real or imagined? Open source contributions from Oracle

  Adrian Bridgwater 15 Apr 2011

Oracle announces first development milestone release for MySQL 5.6, the (as they put it) "world's most popular open source database" system.

• Novell: we are among "top" contributors to Linux kernel

  Adrian Bridgwater 15 Apr 2011

Novell's director of Linux marketing Michael Applebaum has been vocal this week on the subject of Linux and its relationship with enterprise level deployments.

• The open source USP? - flexibility, flexibility, flexibility...

  Adrian Bridgwater 14 Apr 2011

Open source should be more directly recognised for the flexibility it brings to software deployment

• Open source "application monitoring" & ergonomic toilet brushes

  Adrian Bridgwater 12 Apr 2011

Open source tools for application monitoring represent a more flexible and customisable option for smaller companies in the SME/SMB space, potentially

• Vodafone 3D apps developer day, the Airplay SDK & pizza for lunch

  Adrian Bridgwater 08 Apr 2011

Ideaworks Labs to showoff the Airplay SDK, which is a C/C++ SDK designed to enable the development of rich apps and games for Android, iOS and other smartphone platforms.

• Ubuntu App Developer Week to run in cyberspace

  Adrian Bridgwater 06 Apr 2011

Ubuntu App Developer Week scheduled to run via IRC later this month

• Live video stream for 20th Anniversary of Linux

  Adrian Bridgwater 05 Apr 2011

The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is held from April 6 - 8 in San Francisco,