Sam Varghese
Sam Varghese has been writing for iTWire since 2006, a year after the site came into existence. For nearly a decade thereafter, he wrote mostly about free and open source software, based on his own use of this genre of software. Since May 2016, he has been writing across many areas of technology. He has been a journalist for nearly 40 years in India (Indian Express and Deccan Herald), the UAE (Khaleej Times) and Australia (Daily Commercial News (now defunct) and The Age). His personal blog is titled Irregular Expression.
Tuesday, 21 April 2009 04:50
Oracle: what happens to MySQL and OpenSolaris?
From a company that was touting its own progress and supposed ability to steer itself through difficult technology waters on its own, Sun Microsystems, over a few months, became an entity that was desperately looking to be acquired.
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Friday, 17 April 2009 07:06
Ubuntu circus set to start again
Six days from today, the Ubuntu circus will start all over again. The release of version 9.04 is scheduled for April 23 and lots of bandwidth will be consumed that day as people upgrade or else download the distribution for the first time.
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009 08:34
Ex-Novell developer releases port of Tomboy
A software developer who was sacked by Novell in the first quarter of this year has begun porting Tomboy, one of two Mono-dependent applications which is part of the GNOME desktop, to C++/Gtkmm.
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