- Tue Feb 9 9:34 AM PST 2010 Ex-Sun CEO ponders autobiography
Jonathan Schwartz was a prolific blogger and now has begun tweeting. The next possibility: a book about being Sun's chief executive.
- Tue Feb 9 12:00 AM PST 2010 Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder's gaming start-up
Stewart Butterfield and his friends are back at it with a new company. CNET's Daniel Terdiman was given exclusive, behind-the-scenes access as they built it from scratch.
- Sun Feb 7 1:25 PM PST 2010 Oracle loses some MySQL mojo
Oracle veteran and MySQL sympathizer Ken Jacobs has resigned from the database giant, calling into question Oracle's ability to deliver on its MySQL promises.
- Sat Feb 6 9:57 AM PST 2010 Microsoft dropping FAST search for Linux, Unix
Microsoft is getting set to phase out its FAST enterprise search offerings for Linux and Unix. Will customers move to cloud-based search or move to Windows?
- Fri Feb 5 5:55 PM PST 2010 Oracle signals change of tone about cloud
Even as Oracle kills off the critically acclaimed Sun cloud offering, it prepares a PR blitz to proclaim its cloud strategy: the software arms dealer to the cloud-computing stars.
- Fri Feb 5 7:48 AM PST 2010 What to expect from open-source Symbian (Q&A)
Symbian Foundation CEO Lee Williams talks about the open-sourcing of its mobile OS and whether to expect a Symbian-based tablet.
- Fri Feb 5 6:00 AM PST 2010 From Alfresco to Canonical
After four-plus years at Alfresco, it's time for the author of CNET's The Open Road to move on to a new challenge, as COO of Ubuntu Linux backer Canonical.
- Fri Feb 5 4:26 AM PST 2010 Mozilla releases Thunderbird 3.1 alpha
Bug fixes, interface refinements, and a revamped browser engine are built into the first test version of Mozilla's new e-mail software.
- Thu Feb 4 6:25 AM PST 2010 Symbian now fully open-sourced
All source code for the mobile phone OS is now available for free under the Eclipse license and other open-source licenses
- Thu Feb 4 6:00 AM PST 2010 Apple, Google, and the importance of Bing
Software freedom requires more than just a license. It also needs an open market to be meaningful--witness Apple, Canonical, and others flirting with Microsoft.




