The Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved two
licenses. These licenses, written by Larry Rosen, attorney for OSI, are
intended to be encapsulations of the best of their class of open source
licenses.
Here is Red
Hat's press release announcing the availability of Red Hat
Linux 8.0. There's lots of new stuff in this release, of course,
including the controversial "Bluecurve" desktop, OpenOffice,
Apache 2.0, and more.
A large Italian tour operator is the first business to deploy this
solution, which integrates the IBM X-Series server with Red Hat's Linux
operating system and Tarantella Enterprise 3 software.
CMP Media's TechWeb Network launched
The Open Enterprise, a news-and-analysis Web site devoted entirely to
open-source and standards-based software in a corporate setting.
"The Open Enterprise's inaugural feature is "The Promise of the Open
Enterprise." The piece focuses on what it means to use open-source and
standards-based software in enterprise IT systems, how they change IT
practices and policies, how enterprise business technologists acquire
open-source software, and issues of deployment, architecture, cost-benefits
and risks."
