Development & Management Tools
Making the Wi-Fi connection
Wi-Fi discovery and connection tools have existed since the early days of 802.11. But while many of these tools have their roots in hacker tools like AirCrack, WEPCrack, AirSnort, CoWPatty, and AirSnarf, which were all originally developed to exploit the fundamental weakness in Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), these tools now legitimately embody the client-side user interface elements that help establish essentially every WLAN link.
Sun, IBM launch ODF tools initiative
Sun and IBM are expected Wednesday to announce the Open Document Format Toolkit Union, an open-source project aimed at making
it easier for developers to use ODF.
Mozilla adds privacy mode to Firefox test build
Developers working on Mozilla's next browser Tuesday added a privacy mode to the still-under-construction Firefox 3.1, a major
milestone in the development of the upgrade.
Developers rank best application servers
The "user's choice" for application servers, according to more than 700 software developers, include two of the oldest-one
might say mature-and one relative newcomer. Developers ranked Adobe ColdFusion, the open-source Apache Geronimo, and Oracle
WebLogic Server, among their favorite options, according to a free report distributed by Evans Data (free registration required).
Free version of Hyper-V now available
Following a similar move by VMware in August, Microsoft Wednesday released a free, low-footprint version of its Hyper-V virtualization
software as it continues to chase the virtualization leader.
The virtual winner: VMware's ESX KOs a roughly built Hyper-V package
When the dust settled in the lab after two long months of testing Microsoft's Hyper-V and VMware's ESX in the areas of performance,
compatibility, management, and security, it all boiled down to two issues: experience and religion.
The issue of virtual compatibility
Both hypervisors have requirements for the hardware they can run on and the VMs they can support.
CodeWeavers offers 'Chrome' browsers for Mac, Linux
Although Google has yet to come up with Mac or Linux editions of its new Chrome browser, CodeWeavers, a company best known
for its CrossOver software, has assembled imitations for those operating systems using Google's own source code.
Sun aims at Google with open source project hosting site
Sun is set to compete with the likes of Google Code and Github through Project Kenai, an open source project hosting site
the vendor launched in beta form late last week.
Bluenog ties together open source CMS, BI, portal
Bluenog Monday released an integrated bundle that pulls together open source content management, portal and business intelligence
software and is aimed at mid-sized companies.
Microsoft virtualization tools reinforce user's data center plans
Hosting provider RackForce Networks expects that Microsoft's just released Hyper-V virtualization technology will give it
a chance to take a major step in its business strategy.
Database vendors add Google's MapReduce
Greenplum and Aster Data Systems, two startups involved in large-scale data analysis, announced this week that their products
will support MapReduce, a programming technique originally developed by Google for parallel processing of large data sets
across commodity hardware.
Mozilla experiments push Firefox envelope
Mozilla is experimenting with several ideas to push the browser envelope, including one that could turn the browser into a
messaging hub.
Alfresco wants to stand in for SharePoint server
Open-source content management vendor Alfresco is hoping to lure away some business from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
(MOSS) -- with an assist from Microsoft itself.
3 open-source challenges: cloud computing, open Web, mobile
"We have come into real contention [for mindshare] in the enterprise," said Tim O'Reilly, CEO at O'Reilly Media, in his keynote
address at OSCON, this week's Open Source convention in Portland, Ore. "So we should be patting ourselves on the back, right?
I'm not so sure."
• Dell puts Linux and Atom in Vostro PCs
• Mozilla names best Firefox 3 add-ons
• Torvalds: Fed up with the 'security circus'
• Dell Latitude ON - big win for Linux
• Open source advocates hail appeals court ruling
LinuxWorld Conference and Expo San Francisco, August 4-7, 2008.
Linux Plumbers Conference Portland, OR, Sept. 16-19, 2008.
FreedomHEC Santa Monica, November 8-9, 2008.
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