October
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Oct 23, 2008
Open source - it's all about choice
There have always been people in society who help others just because they can - the cub scout leader, the charity volunteer, the community clean up group, they all contribute to making the world a better place. read more...
Marketcetera Extends Open Source Trading Capabilities to the Back Office
Broker/Dealers Can Now Manage Order Flow, Calculate Risk and Analyze Market Positions From an Integrated Open Source Platform read more...
Oct 22, 2008
Symbian Becomes Open Source
Users of the Symbian cell phone operating system believe the software could rival Apple and Google, if it became freely available. read more...
How open will mobile go?
The trickle of open source has become a flood. read more...
Oct 21, 2008
UK Open Source Consulting
Optaros is building momentum in the United Kingdom. We have had a successful start to the UK open source consulting business and are working with some great companies. read more...
Red Hat promises open-source virtualization technology
By 2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises are expected to use open source technology in direct or embedded forms, according to research firm, Gartner. read more...
Oct 18, 2008
VC funding for open source down 12% in Q3
It will probably come as little surprise to anyone to hear that the amount of - publicly disclosed - money invested in open source vendors in the third quarter was down on the same period last year. $76.5m was raised by open source vendors in Q3, down 12.2% on $87.2m in the same quarter of 2007. read more...
More From the Open Source Music Garage
We've reported a few times on efforts to apply open source concepts to the world of music, where many people perceive the music industry to be in need of change and improvement. For example, we wrote about Radiohead's successful effort to open source a music video and Bojam's effort to get musicians around the world to collaborate in open source fashion. read more...
Oct 17, 2008
Microsoft introduces installers for open-source apps
If you can’t beat them, join them, and make certain that people notice. Microsoft has introduced an installer that streamlines installations of free components from its Web application platform, and another to guide its customers in the installation of popular .NET and PHP open-source applications that are compatible with Windows. read more...
Oct 15, 2008
Recession Worries? Open Source Software Is a Great Way to Cut Costs
IT budget slashed again? If you need to cut costs, open-source software can save you a bundle--and it's likely a better application than the proprietary equivalents read more...
U.S. Presidential candidates and open source
Which US Presidential candidate would most likely support open source? read more...
Oct 14, 2008
The adoption of open source increases as businesses look to tighten their IT budgets.
UK businesses and government agencies are increasingly adopting open source technology solutions as the credit crunch takes hold, according to open source firm Alfresco Software. read more...
Squiz Intros Open Source Social Networking Platform Software
Squiz, an enterprise-class open source CMS MySource Matrix developers, reportedly announced the availability of its Open Source Social Networking Platform Module. read more...
Oct 13, 2008
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Reviewed
OpenOffice.org is a free cross-platform office suite, originally developed as the proprietary StarOffice suite. It combined a word processor, spreadsheet, database and presentation tools and was available for Unix and Windows based systems. read more...
Oct 10, 2008
Pentagon is preparing guidelines for open-source adoption
Given the widespread adoption of open-source software within the US federal government, including the US Department of Defense, it's perhaps not surprising that the regulation-heavy federal government is finally getting around to issuing guidelines for open-source adoption within the US Department of Defense: read more...
Red Hat Boosts Open Source Service-Oriented Architecture
Red Hat is expanding its open-source JBoss SOA platform with the unveiling Wednesday of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 and JBoss Operations Network 2.1. read more...
Oct 08, 2008
OpenOffice leading Open Source Adoption
With the latest release candidate out for OpenOffice 3, the open source office suite is picking up steam, and along with Firefow, it is proving to be far and away the most popular piece of open source software out there read more...
Oct 03, 2008
Simplexo launches Open Source Enterprise Search
Simplexo, an Open Source Enterprise Search specialist, has released its first ‘Single Click' information search tool that enables companies to simultaneously search both structured and unstructured data in real-time. read more...
Oct 02, 2008
Sun launches open source OpenSSO for identity management
Sun Microsystems' OpenSSO Enterprise is a major upgrade over its Sun Java System Access Manager predecessor and analysts say it's an intriguing open source model for major commercial products. read more...
Oct 01, 2008
Microsoft finally acknowledges that open source is mainstream
Microsoft just announced the obvious: open source is an increasingly critical (and common) component of software today, including proprietary software. The open-source software in question is jQuery, an excellent open-source javascript library that Microsoft will be including in its Visual Studio application development platform. read more...
