March
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Mar 14, 2008
An open approach to virtualisation management
With all the news surrounding the virtualisation capabilities provided by Microsoft Windows Server 2008, it seems like a good time to take a look at the capabilities offered by competing environments. read more...
VoIP app WengoPhone forced to find new sponsor
In the closing days of 2007, open source voice-over-IP (VoIP) project WengoPhone found itself without a sponsor. The project's creator and underwriter, Wengo, announced it was halting its support after more than three years of development. read more...
Mar 13, 2008
Latest Firefox 3 beta offers exciting features
Firefox 3 is in testing, with the latest build, beta 4, released Monday. Mozilla is aiming for a final release of its flagship product before the end of the first quarter of 2008. Let's take a look at the changes coming down the pike. read more...
NEFITS: Open-source software worth considering
Give your opinion on this story? For most computing tasks, you can probably find three or four programs, many of them free, to do the job. So how do you choose only one? read more...
Mar 12, 2008
IBM rolls out 'Microsoft-free' PCs to Europe
n a move to challenge Microsoft on the desktop, IBM has teamed up with Austrian and Polish system integrators to supply the emerging Eastern European and Russian business PC markets with "Microsoft-free" systems based on Red Hat Linux and open standards-based productivity software. read more...
EZblue Linux server makes administration easy
EZblue Software touts EZblue Business Server as "a fully integrated [L]inux server. It has a built-in file server, print server, Web server, mail server, and a whole lot more" -- just like many other distributions, of course. read more...
Mar 11, 2008
Open-source security code released for Java
Open-source identity community OpenLiberty.org has released code to help Java developers build privacy and security features into applications. read more...
Open Source professionals higher skills, higher paid: survey
A new survey of companies and individuals supplying Open Source solutions and services claims to show that Open Source IT professionals make more money than their proprietary IT counterparts because they're more highly skilled. read more...
Mar 10, 2008
Educating Tux: case studies of Linux deployments in high schools around the world
Linux has a lot to offer cash-strapped education departments. It’s free, for one thing. It is naturally secure with distinctly non-privileged accounts and it is easily centrally administered. However, the experiences by schools that have gone this route are a mixed bag. Let us investigate some and see what lessons there are. read more...
Recording sounds for Impress slides with eVoice
Over the last few years, OpenOffice.org has started to develop a respectable number of extensions, mostly for Writer and Calc, the two most widely used applications. read more...
Mar 07, 2008
CeBIT: Everything in Unison on Linux
Software developer Unison has launched what it claimed is the world's first fully-unified communications suite based on Linux. read more...
VCs regain interest in open source
Venture capitalists (VC) first discovered open source during the dot-com bubble at the turn of the millennium. When the bubble burst, open source was connected closely enough with its general failure that all but a handful of VCs lost interest. read more...
Mar 06, 2008
Microsoft influencing partner NGOs to support OOXML in India
Microsoft is encouraging its business partners to promote its Office Open XML specification (OOXML) to the Indian Bureau of Standards (BIS) and Ministry of IT. This move has incensed supporters of the rival OpenDocument Format (ODF) who fear that the "soft" Indian state may not be able to stand up to Microsoft pressure tactics. read more...
Open source in schools could save the taxpayer billions
In a 2005 report the Government quango Becta showed that schools could effect considerable savings by making use of Free Open Source software such as Open Office. read more...
Mar 05, 2008
OpenMoko Offers 3-D Printing For Cell Phones
The company releases its CAD files to the open source community in a technology that can create unique plastic parts for a mobile device at home for about $3,500. read more...
Archive files in both Windows and Linux using PeaZip
If you need an archiving program that can run under both Windows and Linux, sport a graphical interface, and be licensed as open source software, only a single program will do: PeaZip. read more...
Mar 04, 2008
Managing distributed software teams
Increasingly software development teams are becoming bigger and more dispersed. This is particuarly true in the free and open source community where many of the members of project teams may never meet one another face to face. read more...
Paylocity saves money developing on Linux
Paylocity provides payroll and human resources outsourcing services for companies that don't want the burden of performing those functions in house. Launched in 1997, is is the brainchild of founder Steve Sarowitz, who was previously a salesperson for other payroll companies. read more...
Mar 03, 2008
End Software Patents project comes out swinging
Four months after being announced, the End Software Patents project (ESP) is launching a new Web site with arguments for economists, computer scientists, lawyers, and lay people about why they should support the project. read more...
Microsoft To Expand Web Services For Businesses
Microsoft plans to broaden the availability of its online services for e-mail and collaboration software. read more...
