August
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Aug 25, 2008
Business tools: Open source moves into the mainstream
If your business hasn't yet dipped its toe into the open-source software waters, it's as behind the times as a company five years ago that was not yet on the internet. read more...
An open-source approach to tracking stolen laptops
SEATTLE--Imagine your laptop is stolen. Set aside for a second the likelihood that if it was you wouldn't be able to read this story and think instead about how you might go about tracking it down. read more...
Aug 22, 2008
SugarCRM Named Best Open Source Technology by CRM Magazine
SugarCRM Recognized for Providing a Sophisticated Alternative to Proprietary Software read more...
The new Intel gets open source mojo with SpikeSource
The biggest business story of the year may be the transformation of Intel from a tech-driven chipmaker to a marketing-driven products-and-services company. read more...
Aug 21, 2008
Sun Says Open Source Storage Is Catching On
Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) says its open source storage initiative is catching on, with registered members growing and more than 40 projects under way. read more...
Open source stack solid foundation for All Homes
After running for six years on a "black box" legacy system, ACT and South Eastern NSW real estate portal allhomes.com.au has migrated its technology stack to open source Linux and Java technologies. read more...
Aug 20, 2008
Spanish Open Source Firm to Make Presence Felt at Astricon
Headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, Presence Technology is a global software company, which offers a highly valuable technology proposal to the contact center market. read more...
Linux Foundation gets a boost as Canonical signs on
Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, has joined the Linux Foundation. This move reflects the growing relevance of Canonical in the Linux ecosystem and indicates that the company has achieved a level of growth that empowers it to contribute additional resources back to the Linux community. read more...
Aug 19, 2008
Collaboration is the new revolution
Sir Thomas More's description of Utopia as a place where "nobody owns anything, but everyone is rich" is not a bad way to describe the open source movement in which people around the world collaborate with each other to produce services that anyone can use - or improve on - for nothing. read more...
ITema Releases Web Site Editor, FREE Hosting for modx Developers
a leading provider of dynamic Websites and associated on-line productivity tools for the small business owner, today released ITema's Sandbox, its user-friendly web site editor for modx, as Open Source under the GNU license. read more...
Aug 18, 2008
Big court win for open source licences
In a significant victory of free and open source licences the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit - which deals with IP issues - has upheld an open source licence (PDF), in particular referencing the Artistic Licence from Creative Commons. read more...
Open source good for security
The key to IT security is secure software - software that is written with not only features, but also security, in mind, says David Jacobson, technical director at Linux services company Synaq. read more...
Aug 14, 2008
IBM targets Microsoft with open source PC
IBM has laid out plans for a Microsoft-free PC by joining up with Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat to bring Linux systems to market next year. read more...
Ruling Is a Victory for Supporters of Free Software
A legal dispute involving model railroad hobbyists has resulted in a major courtroom victory for the free software movement also known as open-source software. read more...
Aug 13, 2008
The Open Source Licensing Implosion
I read Bob Sutor's words about an impending implosion in both open source licenses and standards-setting bodies, and found myself nodding: It's not just that there are "too many open source licenses," but that the consequences for blithely creating new ones are finally becoming concrete. read more...
Benchmarking network performance with Network Pipemeter, LMbench, and nuttcp
Network latency and bandwidth are the two metrics most likely to be of interest when you benchmark a network. Even though most service and product advertising focuses on bandwidth, at times the latency can be a more important metric. read more...
Aug 12, 2008
IBM, Open Source Companies Team on 'Microsoft Free' Desktop Solutions
IBM (News - Alert) is teaming up with Linux distributors Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell, and Red Hat and hardware partners in a global initiative to develop and promote theMicrosoft ( News - Alert)-free personal computing software products like Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony for the desktop market. read more...
OpenClinica - Professional Open Source for Clinical Research
OpenClinica is a free, open source clinical trial software platform for Electronic Data Capture (EDC) clinical data management in clinical research. read more...
Aug 11, 2008
Open source technology is hungry for new college grads
Many college graduates are finding it difficult to enter the information technology world with little or no work experience. read more...
Users made us more open - Microsoft
Microsoft’s annual geek gathering, TechEd, is not the place you’d expect to hear words like “Linux” or “open source” - at least not without a good punchline. read more...
