CIO.com’s Esther Schindler suggests the perfect way to boost a career: Get involved in an open-source project:
As Esther writes, open source is a great way to circumvent office politics, which tend to rely on “who you know” rather than “what you know.” Open-source communities, while not perfect on this score, generally offer a meritocracy: You’re [...]
The deal with Microsoft must have some level of joint engineering possibility that would help Mono mature and make .NET cross-platform. If Microsoft’s goal really is to create the WAMP stack, it will still require a great deal of community development to get people to write and donate applications, something Novell is good at managing.
The [...]
“This is very unusual,” Fermilab Director Piermaria Oddone said of the gift in an address to employees on Friday, according to a report in Science magazine. “It’s not a building that carries a name. It’s really a commitment to…particle physics as a long-range, important undertaking for our nation.”
The gift marks is the second time [...]
On the eve of the RSA security conference, there’s a showdown in the offing between “Old Europe” and U.S. search operators. Earlier Monday word leaked about a European regulatory plan to press search engine providers to dump personal search data after six months.
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Barring the unforeseen, it’s likely the European Commission will look [...]
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I spent my lunch today in Buenos Aires with Red Hat’s general manager of South America, which I’ll report on tomorrow. Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, Red Hat announced a cool deal with Munich Airport, thrice-named “Airport of the Year” in Europe.
Why? Because Unix couldn’t deliver the performance that Munich Airport needed, [...]
Correction 10:45 a.m. PST: This blog initially misspelled the name of one of the Python programmers hired by Sun. His name is Frank Wierzbicki.
Sun Microsystems has hired high-profile Python programmers Ted Leung and Frank Wierzbicki, stepping up its bet on open source and scripting languages.
Sun has already hired other open-source luminaries such as Debian Linux [...]
As of Wednesday, an exploit code allowing someone to attack the domain name system (DNS) was available in various places on the Internet.
On July 8, IOActive researcher Dan Kaminsky disclosed a flaw in the DNS but would not provide the details until all the affected vendors had released patches and all the systems worldwide [...]
Bits and pieces of Google’s acquisition of FeedBurner continue to seep out. Friday marked the quiet “public” launch of AdSense for Feeds, a service that was soft-launched to a small group of AdSense users back in May.
Once integrated into publishers’ RSS feeds, it’ll serve up contextually-related advertising based around the content, helping publishers make money [...]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Famed venture capitalist John Doerr is conflicted. He says pace of innovation in green technologies, breathtaking in the past five years, is far from fast enough to address the scale of the world’s energy problems.
Doerr was the keynote speaker at the MIT Energy Conference here Saturday. He alternated between expressing wonder at the [...]
Radar Networks is prepping for a March public beta of Twine, a Web application that organizes information into a “semantic graph,” connecting people, places, companies, products, Web pages, videos, and photos, and turning it into Semantic Web content.
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Radar Networks) In addition, the company raised $13 million in Series B funding from Velocity Interactive, [...]
