Open Source PostgreSQL Developer Bruce Momjian Spills The DB Beans
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| In a recent interview, the lead developer and bearded sage of the PostgreSQL
| project, Bruce Momjian, talked about the emergence of a commercial company,
| EnterpriseDB, behind PostgreSQL and the vitality of the database itself.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201802308
There's also this:
Estimating the number of active and stable FLOSS projects
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| By using a slightly more relaxed definition of “stability”, with an activity
| rating between 60% and 100% and at least a release in the last year, we
| obtain around 18000 stable and mature project from which to choose- not a bad
| result, after all.
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http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/08/23/estimating-the-number-of-active-and-stable-floss-projects/
http://tinyurl.com/2u6v7a
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Fraunhofer IESE Participating in European Open Source Quality Offensive
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| As one of eight consortium partners, Fraunhofer IESE provides support for
| the European project QualOSS - Quality of Open Source Software. Its subject
| is a quality evaluation system for Open Source software... The project has
| an overall volume of almost 3 million euros and is initially scheduled
| to run until 31 March 2009.
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http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news202076
Critical Open Source Software Projects Receive 6,000 Bug Fixes in First Year
of Coverity Scan Site
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| Department of Homeland Security open source hardening project grows to
| 150 applications and regular scans of 35 million lines of source code
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070327/sftu036.html?.v=89
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070112025016466
Europe, Brazil and China Unite to Foster Open Source Software to Boost Growth
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| The 20 founding members, across Europe, Brazil and China, are a
| heavyweight group of ICT industry players (Atos Origin, Bull,
| Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, European Dynamics, Siemens,
| Telefonica I+D, Thales), SMEs (Centro Ricerche Matematica Pura e
| Applicata, Mandriva), governments (the Department for innovation
| and technologies of the Italian Presidency of the Council of
| ministers, the French Gendarmerie Nationale, Serpro), and
| academics (Fraunhofer FOKUS, INRIA, the Poznan Supercomputing
| and Networking Center, the State University of Sao Paulo, the
| South China University of Technology / Guangzhou Middleware
| Research Center, the University of Bozen, the University of
| Insubria and the University Rey Juan Carlos). The project is
| funded by the European Commission under its sixth framework
| program (FP6), as part of the Information Society Technologies
| (IST) initiative.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070315/ukth001.html?.v=101
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