European OpenSource & Free Software Law Event
The second edition of EOLE will take place on 9 december in Brussels, focusing on legal aspects. This year the themes are « FLOSS Terminology » and « Mutual developpment in the cloud … and other experience »
This event is organised by Benjamin Jean and Philippe Laurent, two speakers at the Profoss event on legal matters.
Journée Opportunité des Logiciels Libres en Wallonie
Le 26 novembre aura lieu à Charleroi (Aéropole de Gosselie) la journée "Open the source: Opportunité des Logiciels Libres". Le programme interpellera plutôt les professionnels intéressés par les opportunités offertes par logiciels libres pour leur entreprise.
A noter qu'il est surprenant de lire cette phrase sur une page du site: "Comment choisir entre un brevet logiciel, une diffusion sous licence propriétaire ou open source ?" alors que les brevets logiciels sont invalides en Europe.
Offre d'emploi chez ETNIC
ETNIC (Entreprise des Technologies Nouvelles de l'information et de la Communication) est un organisme d'intérêt public, créé en mars 2002 par la Communauté française. Il travaille avec tout service public en Communauté française et assure un support informatique, téléphonique et statistique. Une offre d'emploi pour "analyste programmeur serveur Linux" est actuellement publié. Les candidatures sont à envoyer pour le 27 septembre 2009.
RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.4 disponible
RedHat a annoncé la publication d'une nouvelle version de RHEL. Cette version est une évolution par rapport à la version précédente, le plus important etant l'introduction d'un support commercial de KVM, une technologie de virtualisation, qui fait son apparition à coté de Xen, qui était déja proposé auparavent. Ces deux technologies peuvent être gérées avec les mêmes outils (libvirt).
Engine Yard secures $15M funding
EngineYard, the Ruby applications hosting company, (on top of the $3.5M earlier this year).
Engine Yard is also sponsoring the development of Merb, a ruby web development framework, and rubinius, a ruby implementation.
Of course, Engine Yard also hosts Ruby on Rails applications
Three new open source projects published by Google
Google recently released several open source projects:
- RatProxy: a passive web application security assessment tool
- Protocol Buffers: a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format and the format used for almost all of Google's internal RPC protocols and file formats.
- GoogleTest: a framework for writing C++ tests on a variety of platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Windows CE, and Symbian).
Interesting for developers to check out!
RedHat Q1 revenue grows 31%
RedHat published a press release detailing their Q1 financial results. Revenue increased 32%, and operating cash flow Increased by 60% Year-over-Year.
Impressive numbers, further analysed by Matt Asay.
Orbitz publishes 2 open source monitoring projects
InfoQ is reporting the release of 2 open source projects by Orbitz, a big online travel company.
The first project is for the java platform: ERMA (Extremely Reusable Monitoring API), is "an instrumentation API that has been designed to be applicable for all monitoring needs" with the goal to "make instrumentation as simple as logging".
The second, built with Python, is Graphite, "a highly scalable real-time graphing system". this project seems similar to MRTG and RRDTool.
Symbian, the mobile open source platform of the future?
Nokia announced today its intention to buy Symbian shares it din't already own, and the start of a new Symbian Foundation with the help of other parties interested in Symbian (like AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Vodafone and others).
Nokia will contribute the Symbian and S60 software to the Symbian Foundation. Sony Ericsson and Motorola also announced their intention to contribute technology from UIQ.
The eventual goal is to propose an open source platform for mobile computing licensed under the EPL.
Although it's only an announcement at this stage, the least we can say is that it's an interesting one. Let's see what materialises, and how this Symbian Foundation and the Open Handset Alliance will do in the future.
OEM agreement between Alfresco and Adobe
Alfresco published a press-release announcing their OEM agreement with Adobe. Adobe will embed Alfresco's ECM software in its own LifeCycle Enterprise Suite.
