Open Source News

The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) has announced plans to host an Open Source Health Care summit as part of their upcoming 2007 conference, SCALE 5x. The focus of this event will be on the use of open-source software in the health care industry. The goal of this event is to foster an awareness of the availability of open-source options to medical organizations, private practices, and hospitals. The Open-Source Health Care Summit will be held on February 9, 2007 at the Los Angeles Airport Westin Hotel. Topics to be covered at this workshop include: • Relevance of Open Source software and Open Standards for the Health Care industry. • Integrating proprietary systems with Open Source software. • Case studies of using Open Source software in health care environments. • Open Source software in the private medical practice. • Open Source softwar... (more)

Palamida Expands Open Source Reach

PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) -- Palamida(TM) today announced alliances with two major open source organizations, Eclipse Foundation, Inc. and SourceForge.net. In addition to extending the reach of its software intellectual property compliance solution, IP Amplifier, the new relationships will also ease open source developers' concerns about the utilization of their custom-created intellectual property, and allow organizations to be more confident in their use of open source software. Palamida has joined the Eclipse Foundation as ... (more)

Creator of Python Joins Google – Can He Help Boost Its Open-Source Offerings?

Dutch-born Guido van Rossum (pictured), the founder and creative power behind the ever popular Python programming language has accepted an offer from Google - a huge user of Python. "I wonder if this heralds Google finally upgrading from Python 2.2," quipped one wit on the comp.lang.python newsgroup. The key technical person for opensource at Google isn't von Rossum though, it is Greg Stein. Stein's contributions to open source have been very wide-ranging, and he's been Google's engineering manager for opensource for quite a while now. He's also chairman of the Apache Software Fo... (more)

Sun Will Alter Java License To Make Bundling JRE with Linux Easier

Java could well become ubiquitous in Linux distributions. Reports are trickling in, notes Erik Thauvin on his Linkblog, that Sun plans to alter the Java license to make it easier to bundle the JRE with Linux. Allowing Linux distros to include the JRE by default would save users from the well-known risk of failure during installation. Speaking on Thursday during a press teleconference, a company spokeman - Laura Tolson, a VP in the Java platform group - said that the license changes are aimed at making Java easier to work with for those using an open-source OS such as OpenSolaris... (more)

IBM Marks First Anniversary of Gluecode Acquisition With New Open Source Partner Initiative

Marking the one-year anniversary of IBM acquiring Gluecode and throwing its support behind the Apache Geronimo project, IBM has announced a partner initiative for IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition, IBM's open source application server. The new initiative is aimed at helping business partners reduce costs and grow revenue when supporting open source technologies. IBM is providing partners with free sales, marketing and technical support to use WAS Community Edition to provide departmental and small and medium sized customers with an open source foundation fo... (more)