March
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Mar 16, 2009
Schools to benefit from £30m open source project, first in UK
Scheme will provide content online and ‘solve’ compatibility issues - The government has launched the UK’s first national open source project, the National Digital Resource bank. read more...
Web based companies open to open source software
CHENNAI: With cost cutting being the main agenda of the corporate sector now, web based companies have been thankful, for the boon of open source software and cloud computing. read more...
Mar 13, 2009
Outfit Your Netbook With Open Source: 21 Tools
These days everyone is looking for a bargain, and laptop manufacturers are eager to deliver. read more...
Asia Pacific to Receive GroundWork Open Source IT Management Solutions from ICE Systems
ICE Systems, in collaboration with GroundWork Open Source, Inc., recently announced that they had plans to deliver the GroundWork Monitor family of open source network and systems management solutions to enterprises that were located in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. read more...
Mar 11, 2009
Open Source To Fuel Smartphone Growth Through 2013
Although Symbian's open source platform for smartphones has been a major sales driver, the growing momentum of Google's Android is expected to spur continued growth. read more...
IBM, Microsoft and open source citizenship
Matt Asay has offered a rather strange post noting that if history had been different the roles of IBM and Microsoft would be reversed. read more...
Mar 10, 2009
New York: Tax break for open source developers?
A New York State Assembly bill intends to give open source developers the opportunity to offset 20 per cent of their development expenses, up to a maximum of $200, against tax. read more...
Open source server appliances ship
Israeli software appliance project TurnKey Linux announced a dozen new open-source server appliances based on Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS (Long-Term-Support). The releases include servers for LAMP, Ruby on Rails, Joomla, MediaWiki, Drupal, LAPP, Django, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, says the group. read more...
Mar 09, 2009
SourceForge wants to host your app
Many open-source projects would love to offer a hosted version of their products, but lack the resources to be able to do so. SourceForge, the world's largest repository of open-source projects, is therefore stepping into the void to host open-source applications. read more...
An open source textbook is more than a book
The release of an “open source” physics textbook by the state of Virginia is a serious milestone. read more...
Mar 06, 2009
IBM talks smart software and open source
THE GENERAL manager of IBM Germany, Martin Jette, took to the CeBit stage this morning to discuss IBM's "Smarter Planet" inter connectivity strategy, software, hardware and thoughts on open source. read more...
Genivi shows why open source is good for business
The automotive industry consortium, Genivi, has been announced. Its aims are to produce a common Linux-based stack to run the user-level electronics in cars — entertainment, navigation, information systems, and so on. read more...
Mar 05, 2009
Open Source Project Gives Java Devs a 'Lift'
Some might question whether there's a need for another Web application framework following the recent consolidation of the upstart Merb project with the Rails 3 effort, but the creators of the open-source Lift Framework project aren't letting that stand in their way. read more...
Open Source Think Tank
Good to see new CEOs at the Olliance group meeting. read more...
Mar 04, 2009
e-Zest to showcase OpenSource Competency at CeBIT 2009 Hannover Germany
With the world economy in recession many businesses are already expecting rough seas ahead. IT budgets will shrink along with all other budgets, and maybe even more than other budgets. read more...
CureTogether, a platform for open-source health research
CureTogether helps people to anonymously track and compare health data, to better understand their bodies, make more informed treatment decisions and contribute data to research. read more...
Mar 03, 2009
Could Microsoft actually be getting an open-source clue?
couldn't make it to OSCON last week in Portland, OR, but I have read the announcements that Sam Ramji, the director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab, made at this open-source software show. They were the friendliest things I've ever seen come out of Microsoft towards open source. read more...
Palm leads on open source development, iPhone gaining
The number of open source projects targeting mobile platforms increased at a compound annual growth rate of 55 percent between 2005 and the end of 2008 according to a new study released by open-source software management services provider Black Duck Software. read more...
Mar 02, 2009
The Essential Project - Launch of an Open Source Enterprise Architecture Toolkit
Enterprise Architecture Solutions Ltd announces the launch of the Essential Project, a powerful, professional, proven and free of charge open source toolkit that comprises: read more...
Open Source, the Recession and the Lower-TCO Promise
As the global economic crisis deepens, companies are considering options they might once have rejected out of hand in order to cut costs. Open source vendors have long waved the lower-TCO banner, and the recession seems to fueling business in the sector. It's not quite clear, though, whether a switch to open source will result in cost savings in the long run. read more...
