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Happy birthday, Dries (Mr. Drupal)

http://news.cnet.com

Dries Buytaert celebrates his thirtieth birthday today. For someone that has built an open-source community that numbers in the millions of downloads and hundreds of thousands of contributors, Dries is a very unassuming, interesting, and likable person.

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Laid Off? Top Ways to Find Opportunities in Open Source

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Both Joe Brockmeier at ZDNet and Matt Asay at CNet have items up today about how some of the newly unemployed folks out there can benefit from FOSS contributions. While it may seem illogical that making free contributions to free products is a good idea when the pink slip pops up, they make some good arguments for how it can improve both job and pay prospects.

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New Open Source Database Offerings from Ingres and Sun

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This has been a big week on the open source database front. Yesterday, Ingres launched version 9.2 of its database, which you can download here. And today, Sun Microsystems announced the new version 5.1 of MySQL, with a near-final candidate release downloadable here, and a final version expected on December 6th.

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Open Source Data Protection from Zmanda Soars to the Cloud(s) in 2008

http://www.marketwatch.com

The cost of data protection continued to present a significant challenge throughout 2008. In these difficult economic times the open source value proposition from Zmanda resonates well with IT managers who are struggling to meet their goals with rapidly dwindling budgets.

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Fonality Call Center System Saves SunPorch $100K in Annual Advertising Costs

http://www.marketwatch.com

SunPorch, the leading manufacturer of ready-to-assemble sunroom kits, has reduced its annual advertising spend by $100,000 because of its deployment of PBXtra Call Center from Fonality(R), a leading provider of open source unified communication systems for businesses.

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rSmart and Kuali Lead the Way for Open Source ERP in Education

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Today, at Kuali Days VII, rSmart--the leading full-service provider of open source enterprise software solutions for education--announced additional growth for its Kuali solutions business.

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Everyone needs open-source distribution in a down economy

http://news.cnet.com

Open source rules in a bad economy, but perhaps not always for the reasons suggested. Forget source code for a minute, and put development aside. One of the biggest assets that open source provides is a low-cost distribution model. In a bad economy, you want your software to find budgets still filled with cash, rather than spending money to chase money, and nine times out of 10 coming up empty.

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Boxee Raises $4 Million for Open-Source Media Center

http://www.readwriteweb.com

These are clearly not the easiest times to secure financing for a startup, but Boxee, which makes an open-source media center application that works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and the Apple TV, just announced a $4 million investment from Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures. Bijan Sabet from Spark and Fred Wilson from Union Square will join the Boxee board.

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Optaros Announces Global Internal Deployment of SugarCRM

http://www.marketwatch.com

Optaros Inc., assemblers of Next Generation Internet (NGI) applications, completed a global in-house implementation of SugarCRM, a leading commercial open source CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solution. The deployment includes enhancements to Optaros' revenue module and the creation of a substantial forecasting module.

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Open source journalism goes local

http://blogs.zdnet.com

ZDNet is a good example of open source journalism applied to a vertical market. We use open source tools. A small staff works with a large group of writers who are paid based on performance. The key is to monetize pages enough so income equals outgo with a bit left over. We use open source tools. A small staff works with a large group of writers who are paid based on performance.

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Guess which patents are not infringed in the Microsoft Visual Studio suit?

http://news.cnet.com

WebXchange is suing Microsoft--or, rather, three of its customers--for allegedly infringing its patents in Microsoft Visual Studio, as CNET reports. Just desserts?

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Unicon Adds Over Twenty New Open Source Projects for CAS, Sakai, uPortal and Zimbra in Q3 2008

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Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source software consulting services for the education market, today announced that it has completed over twenty new open source services projects in the third quarter of 2008 for numerous colleges, universities, and for U.S. corporations: Cisco, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and Pearson Education.

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Yahoo to make BrowserPlus open-source

http://news.cnet.com

It was probably inevitable given what Google did with Gears, but Yahoo said Tuesday it's releasing BrowserPlus software as open-source software. BrowserPlus and Gears are aimed at improving browsers' native abilities so Web applications can better match those running natively on a computer's operating system, and Gears already is open-source software.

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Norway Pledges Funds for Government Open Source Usage

http://ostatic.com

Norway has become the the latest country to pledge funds for public sector use of open source software. Minister of Government Adminstration and Reform Heidi Grande Roeys is granting 2 million kroner ($285,000) to the national center for free software, and the terms of the deal are interesting.

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Open Source becoming popular in corporate

http://business.techwhack.com

Gartner researchers have found that Eighty-five percent of companies are already using open-source software in some form or the other. The report added that most of the remaining entities are also planning to start using open source applications in the coming months.

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