September
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Sep 16, 2009
Western Australia Department Shifts to Open Source Database Management
The Department of Education and Training (DET) in Western Australia has gone live with an open source data management system that uses Ingres Database, an open source database management technology. read more...
Microsoft continues rocky relationship with open source community
Microsoft is funding CodePlex - a new venture aimed at bringing open source and proprietary software firms together to work side-by-side on open source projects. At the same time Microsoft continues to pose a litigation threat to open source communities. read more...
Sep 14, 2009
Is Microsoft as Free as Open Source?
For Microsoft shops, the price to move out of the Microsoft stack might be very expensive and discouraging. read more...
Survey: Two Thirds of Enterprises Entertain Open-Source Solutions
While two thirds of enterprise companies have some degree of interest in open-source, far fewer indicate its adoption is a high priority, according to a Forrester survey of 2,252 software decision-makers. read more...
Sep 11, 2009
Protect Your Network With an Open-Source Firewall
When you need a robust firewall on a non-existent budget, here is an easy solution - It's the rare IT person who doesn't sometimes run into a situation where they are helping a client or organization who has more IT needs than budget. read more...
Using free software improves relation between state and society says the President Of Brazil
There is a new relationship developing between the state and its citizens. Free software is rejuvenating these social relations this century", said the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in his opening speech of the second edition of the International Free Software and Electronic Government (Consegi) in the capital, Brasília on 26 August. read more...
Sep 10, 2009
Deep packet inspection engine goes open source
A leading European vendor of deep packet inspection (DPI) has just open-sourced the detection engine that identifies protocols passing over the Internet—just don't count on learning how it identifies even encrypted BitTorrent and Skype connections. read more...
Russian Federation Commits to Open Source
Open source software development in Russia is one of the most important directives for Igor Schegolev – the Head of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation. On February 5, 2009 Schegolev met with Werner Knoblich, Red Hat Vice President for EMEA at the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation, and other industry leaders. read more...
Sep 09, 2009
Euros try multi-product open source support
Credativ, a 10-year old open source support company launched by Postgres contributor Michael Meskes, is bringing its act to America. read more...
Ingres Open Source Solutions Help Slash Costs for Department of Education and Training in Western Australia
Centralized Data System Running on Red Hat and Ingres Eliminates Costly Support Contracts From Proprietary Vendors. read more...
Sep 07, 2009
Open source, portable Mail Browser Backup does what it says
Looking for a simple way to back up (and restore) several different Windows email clients and web browsers? Open source MailBrowserBackup supports a lengthy list: read more...
InfoWorld honors Openbravo with Best of Open Source Award 2009
- Openbravo and its community recognized with Bossie award on heels of new innovative products and broadened range of applications - read more...
Sep 04, 2009
Broad open source plans promised
Nthabiseng Mosupye has been appointed chairperson of the Open Source Software Standing Committee (OSSSC) in Johannesburg. read more...
Effective Open Source: Anchor House Hostel shortlisted for best use of technology
Anchor House , a hostel and life skills centre for homeless adults based in Canning Town has reached the final of the Charity Times Awards 2009 for its effective use of open source technologies. read more...
Sep 03, 2009
Open Source DNA: Mathematical Formula Protects Genetic Privacy
In the chilling science fiction movie Gattaca, Ethan Hawke stars as a man with "inferior genes" who assumes another's genetic identity to escape a dead-end future. The 1997 film illustrates the very real fear swirling around today's genome research — fear that private genetic information could be used negatively against us. read more...
Student Data Interchange Gets Open Source Boost
As part of its OpenEAI Project, the OpenEAI Software Foundation has begun releasing new open source Web services that enable the secure exchange of student data between student applications systems and applications on the Web. read more...
Sep 02, 2009
Using open-source GNU, Eclipse & Linux to develop multicore Cell apps: Part 5
The Cell SDK Integrated Development Environment - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 in this series have presented the Cell SDK's tools for building, debugging, and simulating applications. read more...
Skype buyout wakes up open source vendors
In the wake of a large part of Skype being sold by eBay to private investors, open source companies are hoping to capitalise on a, hopefully, reinvigorated Skype to offer interoperability with the proprietary phone platform. read more...
Sep 01, 2009
Open source DNA
A new mathematical tool from Dr. Eran Halperin of TAU's Blavatnik School of Computer Science aims to protect genetic privacy while giving genomic data to researchers. read more...
The Top 5 Open Source Projects
There are many great, easy to use, very popular Open Source projects out there. I am going to go over my top 5 in this article and give a brief description on what they are used for. This is not a definitive list; it is just what my opinion is. read more...
