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Although not traditionally known for its contributions to the open source community, the German-based SAP is adopting more open source software, as well as contributing more of its own code back into the community, company officials said in an interview. “In the past we didn’t have an open source strategy,” said Claus von Riegen, SAP’s [...]

Developers at an open source company in Spain are leading an effort to boost PHP application development for Android-based phones. Called PHP for Android (PFA), the project supports Google’s Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) project, formerly called Android Scripting Environment (ASE). [ Also on InfoWorld: Find out who came out on top in Test Center's [...]

Red Hat has come up with an interesting sales pitch that seems to benefit rival Microsoft as much as Red Hat. At last week’s Red Hat Summit in Boston, Red Hat company executives repeatedly said that only two IT vendors have all the software necessary to build an entire cloud, and allow workloads to move [...]

It’s been said that Oracle is now the industry’s most powerful open source vendor, but don’t tell that to Red Hat executives, who say Oracle doesn’t even qualify as an open source company. When Oracle bought Sun, controller of Java, MySQL, and OpenSolaris, Gartner analyst George Weiss argued that the acquisition made Oracle “the most [...]

This just in from VMware: “Fling is defined as ‘a brief casual relationship.’” That text actually appears on a site VMware created to share internal engineering projects — software code that is interesting but not yet ready for VMware’s flagship virtualization products. [ Doing server virtualization right is not so simple. InfoWorld's expert contributors show [...]