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11 leaders from the open source and vendor communities discuss the current open source climate and outline the challenges and opportunities ahead.

11 leaders from the open source and vendor communities discuss the current open source climate and outline the challenges and opportunities ahead.

What are the next steps needed for open source as a software production methodology to reach the next level?

Where do you see open source heading in the next five years, especially with regard to development, community, and market opportunities?

11 leaders from the open source and vendor communities discuss the current open source climate and outline the challenges and opportunities ahead.

Mostly lost among the flock of announcements at Microsoft's Mix08 Web developer conference last week was the news that Redmond is starting to test a Web database service based on its popular SQL Server database management software.

A startup company will release the first commercially supported distribution of Drupal, an increasingly popular open-source Web site builder/content management system, in the second half of this year.

The European Commission fined Microsoft a massive 899 million euros (US$1.3 billion) for continued failure to honor the 2004 antitrust ruling against it, Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes said Wednesday.

IBM is giving new meaning to the phrase "virtual data center." And it looks a lot more like Second Life than VMware.

Just a few years ago, the world of open source packages for generating database reports was a quiet secret shared by programmers on a deadline. Anyone could spend a few minutes linking in a library to start generating relatively clean tables filled with data pulled from an SQL database. I've personally made a few clients happy by adding JasperReports to some projects with just a bit of XML and a JAR file.

Models and designers from around the world participated in the Seamless: Computational Couture event, showing off designs that incorporate technology.