June
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Jun 25, 2009
Click2try Adds MoinMoin to its List of Virtualized Open Source Applications
Click2try, a community site which enables the easy opening and trying of open source software announced the addition of MoinMoin to its online catalog of virtualized open source applications. read more...
Open source webERP takes on the big guns
ERP software may be largely the realm of large enterprises, but little known open source application, webERP, is becoming more popular and fits into businesses of all sizes. read more...
Jun 24, 2009
Talend open source data integration goes real-time
Open source data integration software specialist Talend has released a new real-time data integration platform for enterprise application integration. read more...
'Canadian excellence' strengthened by extensive adoption of open access
BioMed Central and Wilfrid Laurier University today announce the launch of Laurier IR, an institutional repository that provides a visible point of open access archiving of intellectual output for all members of the University community. read more...
Jun 19, 2009
New York State Senate goes open source
The New York State Senate has launched what it’s calling a cutting-edge program to not only release data, “but help empower citizens and give back to the community”. read more...
Jun 18, 2009
A Guide to Open Source Software Security
Companies everywhere are opening their doors to open source software, Rob Rachwald provides a ten point governance and security plan. read more...
Jun 17, 2009
CIA Invests in Open Source Lucene, Solr Search
Yes, the Central Intelligence Agency is among 18 U.S. Intelligence organizations to benefit from the Apache Lucene/Solr enterprise search technology. read more...
Jun 16, 2009
Open source vs Microsoft: further progress in Switzerland
The Swiss Open Systems User Group and the canton of Berne treasurer's office have reached a rapprochement. read more...
Jun 15, 2009
Linux is first OS to support USB 3.0
Sarah Sharp, a self-styled "geekess" and Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center who has recently been working on the Linux USB subsystem, announced on her blog that support of USB 3.0 will soon be integrated into the Linux kernel. read more...
Open Source LMS OLAT wins IMS Leadership Award for Best Open Source Learning Platform
At the Learning Impact conference in Barcelona IMS awarded the best e-learning products with their prestigious “IMS Impact Awards”. read more...
Jun 10, 2009
Open source, digital textbooks coming to California schools
The cash-strapped Golden State has decided that, starting next school year, schools will be able to use open source, digital textbooks for a number of math and science subjects. Ars talked with Brian Bridges, the Director of the California Learning Resources Network, which will be reviewing the texts, to find out more about what the program entails. read more...
Are Commercial Buildings Ready for Open-Source Energy Management?
Picture the lighting and chillers of commercial buildings being controlled by a system designed in the same way as Mozilla’s Firefox — through open source, the collaborative method of developing software source code. read more...
Jun 09, 2009
Research groups join Open Cirrus
Hewlett-Packard Inc., Intel Corp. and Yahoo Inc. on Monday announced that three new research organizations will join Open Cirrus, a multiple data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research. read more...
Open standards and Becta save the world
Why computers use electricity, lots of it. ICT-related energy consumption globally is equivalent to the entire aviation industry and accounts for fully 2% of the earth's total energy consumption. read more...
Jun 08, 2009
OpenConferenceWare is Beautiful Software for Events
An open source development team in Portland, Oregon has released OpenConferenceWare, a sophisticated free package for processing event session proposals and displaying event schedules. read more...
Government considers US-style open source data website
The UK government is considering launching an open source data website, similar to the data.gov site launched by the US government in May. read more...
Jun 04, 2009
Asian Open Source Software Center (AOSSC) Alliance Formed by 10 Countries and Regions to Push Development and Adoption of Open Source in Asia
en Open Source Software Centers and related promotion organizations in Asian countries and regions announce today the formation of Asian Open Source Software Center (AOSSC) alliance/network to further promote the adoption, and development of open source software (OSS) technology among Asian countries. read more...
SAP gets closer to open source with Eclipse
From the 'who isn't open?' files: When I was at Interop in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, I heard SAP CTO Vishal Sikka (pic left that I took) explain how SAP supports Open Source for the cloud. read more...
Jun 03, 2009
Government computers slow to go 'open source'
A 42 million franc contract between the Federal government and Microsoft is being challenged in court. read more...
Using Drupal Content Management System: Open Source Drupal CMS
Using Drupal is easy if you have a video tutorial from which to learn. Drupal is an open source CMS (content management system), which can be sued to create websites, blogs, social networking sites and so on. read more...
