Thursday, July 24th, 2008 by Enrico
I found a really cool story here.
Turns out that the Fedora Project is rolling out a new system called “Fedora Talk” that allows contributors to sign in using standard VoIP hardware and software to talk to other Fedora contributors. I think this is a really cool idea and a great application of VoIP technologies. While [...]
Monday, July 14th, 2008 by Enrico
Just caught this article as I was reading technology news this morning. Apparently, Best Buy will soon be selling Ubuntu Linux 8.04 in a retail box, with manual, quick start guide, and 2 months of support, all for $19.99. It certainly beats the pants off of the pricing for Vista.
Ubuntu has made some excellent progress [...]
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 by Enrico
Michael and I very often browse Reddit for interesting articles on all sorts of topics, including computer science and IT. Today, I was looking through Programming Reddit as usual and the link at the top of the front page was to this site. Reddit has made their code available through a public git repository and [...]
Friday, May 30th, 2008 by Enrico
Alfresco and Ingres recently announced a partnership, the first product of which is an all-in-one installer with GUI that installs Apache Tomcat, Java, Ingres, and Alfresco. This gives developers and end users a very easy way to get started with the two technologies, which together form a fully enterprise-ready open source content management solution.
We [...]
Friday, April 18th, 2008 by Enrico
Sun recently acquired MySQL, a gutsy move that some might interpret as a slap in the face to Oracle. Oracle’s database has been a key part of enterprise Java software stacks for a long time and, until this point, a relational database was one of the few things that Sun did not directly provide [...]