InfoWorld - Ian Murdock is vice president of developer and community marketing at Sun Microsystems. Prior to that, he was the founder of the Debian Linux distribution and CTO at the Linux Foundation. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Murdock at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week to talk about open source and how Sun, with its OpenSolaris version of the Solaris Unix platform, will fare in the open-source arena versus Linux.PC World - The free office suite's support for Microsoft's XML-based Office 2007 file formats leaves much to be desired.PC World - Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plugin that has been downloaded...PC Magazine - OpenOffice.org said Wednesday that it had made the beta version of OpenOffice 3.0 available for download. On tap: a better "Start Center," and improvements in the Calc spreadsheet application.InfoWorld - Capabilities to integrate workflows between software developers and artists are being developed for NetBeans, Sun's open source IDE, Sun Vice President James Gosling said this week.PC World - A new, volunteer computer emergency response team aims to be a clearinghouse of security information for open source projects.PC World - A virtual uprising that broke out among developers questioning One Laptop Per Child's commitment to open-source software has...PC World - Google has reinstated an open-source project just days after pulling it in response to a copyright-related takedown notice.PC World - Google has thrown its weight behind a fledgling security reporting group for the open-source community.InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems officials on Monday acknowledged issues the company has had to deal with in offering products such as the OpenSolaris OS and Java via an open source business model.NewsFactor - Sun Microsystems on Monday released the OpenSolaris operating system. Some industry analysts are suggesting the community-developed platform based on Sun's Solaris kernel could give Linux a new challenge.TechWeb - The pre-configured appliances will include SAP's ERP suite for midsize businesses, a database, and the SUSE Linux OS.TechWeb - Pre-configured appliances will include SAP's ERP suite for midsize businesses, a database, and the SUSE Linux OS.PC World - Google has removed an open-source project that enables the proprietary CoreAVC high-definition video decoder to run in Linux...TechWeb - We tested openSUSE, Ubuntu 8.04, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva Linux One, Fedora, SimplyMEPIS, and CentOS 5.1. All performed well, and each had at least one truly outstanding feature.InfoWorld - Sun and the OpenSolaris community are launching Monday the official first version of the open-source OpenSolaris operating system, which has only been available in pre-release versions for developers until now.TechWeb - Bid to increase its enterprise systems management coverage hinges on OpenPegasus.TechWeb - SpringSource Application Platform 1.0 is an open source, lightweight version of an application server and will compete with products from Oracle, IBM, and Red Hat.NewsFactor - In its continuing efforts to build support for its OpenStorage system, Sun Microsystems announced that it will provide new software tools and expanded professional support to assist developers in building open-source storage solutions. With the new resources, Sun estimates the average developer will be able to set up an OpenSolaris server is about 10 minutes.PC World - Enterprise search vendor Dieselpoint is behind a new open-source project centering on a document "pipeline"-- or as the...

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