Sun’s chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, has left the company following its acquisition by Oracle, the executive announced in his blog Tuesday. “Today is my last day of employment at Sun (well, it became Oracle on March 1st in the UK but you know what I mean),” Phipps wrote. “I am a few months short of my 10th anniversary there (I joined at JavaOne in 2000) and my 5th anniversary as Chief Open Source Officer.”
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Sun’s open source chief leaves following Oracle merger
A new industry group is trying to apply open-source principles to the design and construction of data centers, which it says could accelerate the use of new technologies and increase competition in the industry. The Open Source Data Center Initiative, announced this week, will act as a repository and test bed for mechanical and engineering advances in data-center design, which it hopes will be submitted by small engineering firms, graduate students doing research with federal grant money, and others.
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Group seeks to open source data-center design
Amazon.com has agreed to pay Microsoft an undisclosed sum as part of a patent cross-licensing deal between the companies.
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Microsoft, Amazon strike patent licensing deal
The latest version of OpenOffice fixes several vulnerabilities that could cause a computer to become compromised by a remote attacker. OpenOffice.org has issued version 3.2, which adds a lengthy list of new features and improves the suite’s overall performance while also fixing six vulnerabilities .
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OpenOffice 3.2 fixes vulnerabilities, adds features
Beehive, an Apache Software Foundation open source project providing a Java programming model, has been retired due to inactivity, the foundation said on Wednesday. Based on the former BEA Weblogic Workshop development tool runtime, Beehive was built on J2EE and the Struts Java Web framework; it used annotations to reduce coding. [ InfoWorld’s Paul Krill reported on Oracle’s BEA roadmap for BEA, which classified Beehive as being in maintenance mode .
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Apache Beehive project retired
Ksplice Tuesday officially launched its no-reboot patching service for Linux servers. The Cambridge, Mass., startup has about 35 customers and several thousand servers using its paid Uptrack service, in which security and maintenance patches are automatically applied to Linux servers with minimal delay and no downtime, according to Chief Operating Officer Waseem Daher.
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Ksplice debuts zero downtime service for Linux
IBM’s Lotus division has taken another stab at Microsoft Office, releasing a beta 2 version of Symphony 3.0, its free suite of productivity applications. Released Thursday, the beta is the first version of Symphony that is based on OpenOffice 3.x.
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OpenOffice-based Symphony 3.0 beta adds VB support
The Symbian Foundation will move forward on Thursday with offering up the full Symbian smartphone platform to open source. The Symbian 3 platform, including applications, middleware, and the kernel itself, will be offered under terms of the Eclipse Public License and other open source licenses.
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Symbian OS now fully open source
Oracle is dropping support for Sun Microsystems’ Project Wonderland, a Java-based platform for developing 3-D virtual worlds, according to a Jan.
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Oracle unplugs Sun’s virtual world
An open-source MDM (master data management) suite from Talend is now available, giving companies a lower-priced option to proprietary products from the likes of Tibco, Kalido, and IBM, the company announced Monday. Master data is information used across multiple applications, such as lists of products and customers
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Talend reveals open-source master data management
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