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A software developer from JPL explains the reasons that NASA has embraced free and open source software in its application development process. Because, in a Mars launch, the term "mission critical" has a literal meaning.

Page for radiusclient at Freshmeat.net -- obsolete project.

Here's a fascinating document coming from Microsoft – actually a job advertisement for the post of Senior Marketing Manager – Open Source Community. One of his jobs: to move free and open source away from free and open source GNU/Linux and to the clos

Last time I interviewed Zack it was the day that MySQL officially became a part of Sun Microsystems and it was over the phone.  Last week however we were both at the MySQL conference and got meet face to face.  Here is the resulting interview, enjoy!

My interview with Zack (9:24)  Listen (Mp3)   Listen (ogg)

 
Zack's the one in the middle.

Some of the topics we tackle:

• Exceeding expectations at the MySQL conference
• The availability of MySQL's 5.1 later this quarter and all the cool new features
  
• The GA of Workbench - a modeling tool for DBAs
• The morning's keynotes (here is the video Zack shot)
• The challenges that Werner Vogels, Amazon's CTO, faces
• Sun's performance tuning team and how it helps MySQL shine
• Zack's impressions of his first six weeks at Sun

Pau for now...

Nice collection of tips for the new KDE 4.0 desktop.

The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help

along that scale.

Gartner has issued a research note that finds that proprietary software is facing serious pricing pressure from a range of different software trends, among them Software as a Service (SaaS) and open source.

mithro via kattekrab