http://syslab.com Site News daily 1 2007-08-30T01:01:53Z http://syslab.com/summary-of-the-world-plone-day-2008-in-munich On November 7th the Plone Project arranged a World Plone Day in Munich for the first time ever. Worldwide Plone enthusiastic users and interested parties presented Zope-CMS. No publisher nielsen 2008-11-18T14:23:28Z News Item http://syslab.com/news/gartner-85-percent-of-enterprises-using-open Admit it. When you read that headline - "Gartner: 85 percent of enterprises using open source" - you assumed that was a good thing, right? Who's afraid of enterprises saving a lot of money and getting much more flexible IT for their IT budgets? No publisher nielsen 2008-11-18T14:14:49Z News Item http://syslab.com/news/fi-increase-of-open-source-by-companies-spurs Like Finish companies, public administrations in Finland are increasingly turning to open source, says Matti Saastamoinen of the the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions (COSS). "Their uptake is a little slower, but I expect them to speed it up in the next few years." No publisher nielsen 2008-11-12T13:03:42Z News Item http://syslab.com/news/ec-to-publish-open-source-procurement-guidelines The European Commission's Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR) is working on guidelines for public bodies on how to procure open source software. No publisher nielsen 2008-11-03T14:06:42Z News Item http://syslab.com/news/surviving-the-global-economic-crisis-plone-open From big business to government agencies to non-profit organizations, no one is escaping the financial crisis engulfing the world economy. Jobs are being lost and projects put on hold as spending is reduced. No publisher nielsen 2008-11-03T14:04:57Z News Item http://syslab.com/news/2008-best-other-open-source-cms-revealed Packt is delighted to exclusively reveal the first category winner of the 2008 Open Source CMS Award as Plone. Run on the Zope application server, Plone wins the Best Other Open Source CMS Award and receives $2,000. Also recognized by the judges were dotCMS and DotNetNuke who finished second and third respectively, both picking up $500. Read on for full details. No publisher nielsen 2008-10-29T18:46:03Z News Item http://syslab.com/news/the-impact-of-open-source-software-on-transforming Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON), Oregon State University and the World Bank’s e-Development Thematic Group have partnered to deliver a live webcast of a joint videoconferenced Global Dialogue workshop on the role of open source software in government transformation. No publisher nielsen 2008-10-29T18:38:55Z News Item http://syslab.com/news/europe-leading-open-source-charge Benefits outweigh negatives for more than half of firms, survey finds No publisher nielsen 2008-09-30T13:39:21Z News Item http://syslab.com/news/Plone-Conference-2008-Content.-Community. The sixth annual Plone Conference and pre-conference training will be held in Washington, DC, USA on October 6-10, 2008 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center located downtown. No publisher nielsen 2008-09-23T22:06:36Z News Item http://syslab.com/news/meet-us-at-the-systems-2008-in-munich Syslab.com is exhibitor at this years SYSTEMS in Munich. The prestigious IT fair will take place from October 21st to October 24th 2008. No publisher nielsen 2008-09-23T21:58:04Z News Item http://syslab.com/news/syslab.coms-article-of-the-month-open-source-or The essential IT question for many businesses today is to decide, whether to buy expensive closed software from Microsoft or make use of the free software from the Open Source community available to everyone for public use without cost. No publisher nielsen 2008-09-19T19:57:25Z News Item http://syslab.com/news/launch-of-the-osor-project On 20 October 2008 the Open Source Observatory and Repository for European public administration will go online at the Open Source World Conference organised by The European Commission Directorate General for Informatics (IDABC) in Malaga No publisher nielsen 2008-09-15T14:51:02Z News Item http://syslab.com/news/the-free-software-foundation-fsf-celebrates-25th The GNU operating system is turning 25 this year, and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has kicked off its month-long celebration of the anniversary by releasing "Happy Birthday to GNU," a short film featuring the English humorist, actor, novelist and filmmaker Stephen Fry. No publisher nielsen 2008-09-03T19:01:10Z News Item http://syslab.com/news/forrester-europe-leads-in-open-source-adoption France may not have shown up for the Euro 2008 soccer finals, but it continues to demonstrate the most adoption of open-source software, according to a recent report from Forrester Research ("Open Source Adoption: Notes From The Field"). No publisher nielsen 2008-07-17T17:20:41Z News Item http://syslab.com/news/toward-an-open-source-society One of the oldest arguments against anarchism is that it is impractical, that without central authority to keep the peons in line any large project will dissolve into chaos and disorder. No publisher nielsen 2008-09-19T19:43:39Z News Item