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The crashing of the global economic systems and the job lay-offs following will be hard on open source. Bringing in donations will slow and open source participants that loose their jobs will not be as interested in giving up free time. This is all to be expected but the one area that concerns me most is the potential flooding of job market with job seekers that have long term experience in using commercial systems and technology. Can the new found popularity of open source survive a resurgence...

Economy to give open source a good thumping

Adrew Keen is on to something with his take on how the newly jobless will view open source on the whole. Not just the software but the whole idea of free user generated content may be in danger. Business models that pay the users and contributors will rise against their open source counterparts.

FireOrb License

FireOrb the name The name "FireOrb" is released under the Public Domain License and is not a trademark. Use of the name in conjuction with the use, distribution and marketing of the FireOrb Content Management Framework is allow under all circumstances covered by the Public Domain license.

MySQL creator might leave Sun Micro

Monty, the guy that wrote most of the MySQL code back in 1995 is now thinking about leaving Sun. Sun aquired MySQL a few months ago and apparently the size and management systems of Sun don't give Monty that warm cozy feeling. He misses working for a small company where everbody knows your name. No one is quite sure what this will mean for MySQL developement in the future. Though Widienius probably is not resonsible for many of latest innovations in MySQL it does raise some questions....

OpenX 2.6.1 is available for download

This patch release (v2.6.1) includes 58 bug fixes and enhancements. In this release upgrading and installing OpenX is now even easier; single page call can be used to deliver one zone many times efficiently and the homepage tab error (code: 823) has been resolved.

Improve your open source project with more surveys

There seems to be more and more surveys done on web development, web applications, content management systems and web developers themselves. This might possibly be a good thing. Surveys are a way of questioning the way things are done.

CMS vs. Programming - the seperation of church and state

Whether or not you believe it an open source CMS project is similar to a church organization and PHP, ASP.NET and Java are like government entities. Typically CMS third party developers cannot see the difference. This is because there should not be any.

Soop Content Management Portal - Is it vaporware?

Even in this day and age their are people that promote vaporware. They seem to think that they are smarter and more crafty than other developers and seek to take advantage of newbies to the world of programming. Such a project is the Soop Portal ASP project. It is quite litterally nothing but a scam. So if you are looking for a content management system written in Classic ASP don't waste your time with this bunch of con artists.

Nukedit - A true open source CMS in Classsic ASP

Back in 2004 and even today web developers that use Microsoft technology are not willing to embrace the GNU/GPL system for open source software. So it is rare these days to find a mature open source content management system like Nukedit that has a Classic ASP code base.

A community for supporting open source Flash

OSFlash is a watering hole for open source Flash developers and users to meet, talk about and contribute to new and existing open source projects for the Flash Platform.

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