Video offers innovation opportunity
It used to be said that open source is purely a commodifying force in the software industry, that open source can't innovate and while we've had Mozilla Firefox and other projects to demonstrate open source innovation, the impression nonetheless persists, writes cnet.
One way to crush the idea completely is for open source to help shape a new market, rather than influence an old market.
Online video, despite 14.3 billion videos watched online in December 2008 in the US alone, according to ComScore, is a nascent market with no 800-pound gorillas building the industry in their image.
Open source boosts Sun growth
The open source route has generated more money for Sun Microsystems than before, says its open source chief, and staying on this path will be central to the company's growth strategy, according to ZDNet Asia.
Sun made more money from Solaris today than it did four years ago after it moved the server platform to an open source model, says Simon Phipps, the company's chief open source officer.
The profits have come primarily from offering the platform on a subscription model, Phipps says, which provides its customers a range of services including technical support, default resolution, code maintenance, warranty and legal indemnity.
Security analyser to be unveiled
Microsoft is unveiling a free tool to help enterprises prioritise program bugs that cause application crashes, eWeek reports.
Microsoft released the tool, called the exploitable Crash Analyser, on CodePlex, at the CanSecWest conference which took place in Vancouver, British Columbia last week.
As a Windows debugger extension, the heuristics-based tool is aimed not only at helping developers assess what is causing crashes, but also ranking the seriousness of a bug.
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