Archive for April, 2007
Will GPL die at European administration now that EUPL is available?
For the first time an Open Source Public Licence will have the power of law. The European Union Public Licence (EUPL) has been published the 9 January 2007. The licence is currently translated into the 21 European Union languages, the first ever Open Source licence translated legally and not only “for information” purpose! European Union [...]
SAP A1S and Intalio have same strategy: Zero code, Used by Process Analysts, one-click deploy and Free of charge?
SAP is proposing a new product, A1S, targeted to SMEs having a turn over between 25 to 150 millions Euros. The solution”… will deliver the benefits of enterprise SOA under a new “try-run-adapt” model leveraging the Internet and telesales, and can be managed entirely remotely, from day-to-day operations to upgrades…” [1]. Basically nothing new, the [...]
Dabble DB or the “next generation user interface database”
“…Dabble DB lets you build database applications with no hassle. It’s easy to use yet extremely flexible and powerful…” claims the website. Even they’re right I think they should try to hire some marketing company to find better wording to describe their awesome application. Easily described: Dabble DB provides common functionalities of a database: CRUD [...]
First ever Open Source licence translated into 21 EU languages!
European Union Public Licence v1.0 (EUPL) is almost localised in 27 languages! Already 23 are available but not published already. EUPL is a European Commission (EC) Open Source licence aimed to allow (at least) the EC to release Open Source Software on a legally recognised basis. Many countries have already discussing the choice of publishing [...]
