The elegance of open source is on full display with new product releases
like EnterpriseDB's (EDB's) new PostreSQL-based database solutions.
On the heels of the significant
Microsoft recently made a big noise about its love and support of
the Open Source community (especially Linux), but while it's making
concrete steps toward improving its support for FOSS projects, its
motives may not be entirely altruistic.
As part of the "Second Open Government National Action Plan", the federal
government is planning to share the source code behind many of its
software projects.