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Sun's desktop demise proves open source's power
Leader It's difficult enough killing a project before launch, when the ramifications are purely internal, but it's doubly hard once it's been released to the world. One of the hardest decisions in business is to know when to stop.
[June 29, 2005, 14:15]
Changing specs put NHS IT project in danger
News The future of the multi-billion pound project to upgrade the National Health Service IT systems is in doubt, according to leaked internal memos published this weekend. The Sunday Times reported that Richard Granger, director general of IT for the...
[November 14, 2005, 9:30]
Samba will move to GPLv3
News After internal consideration in the Samba Team, we have decided to adopt the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licences for all future releases of Samba," said Jeremy Allison, a Samba project leader. The new version 3 of the General Public License got a major...
[July 10, 2007, 9:03]
Debian developers locked out after server hack
News The Debian GNU/Linux project has locked a number of its developers out of their system accounts following a security scare in which the hack of a key internal server was discovered this week. The lockout took place due to the fact a compromised...
[July 14, 2006, 15:25]
Tempest Toast, Apples and Atoms
Blog My seemingly never ending project finally gets delivered to the internal customer Monday. My project at work got shoved to the back of my "attention stack" once IKE hit. The project delivers a bare-metal hard drive and system restoration that can...
[October 11, 2008, 10:03]
Faster to Market With Vehicles That Delight
White Papers Specifically, Mahindra is using the UGS Teamcenter digital lifecycle management software to enable: lifecycle data support, platform and variant management, multi-site data notification and synchronization, change management and support for...
[January 15, 2008, 0:01]
The slow poison of OneCare
Leader Perhaps the problems are being fixed, but all the signs are that OneCare is a project in massive internal disarray; misbegotten, mismanaged and mismarketed. A week ago, we reported that Microsoft's OneCare Live security package had failed in a...
[March 16, 2007, 16:13]
Bolt from the blue, Notes guru resigns
News An internal memo sent out on Tuesday stated that Ozzie was leaving Iris Associates, a Lotus subsidiary, to work on an unidentified new project. "Ray has left to pursue work related to Notes and Domino," said Bryan Simmons, spokesperson for Lotus.
[October 1, 1997, 11:48]
Researchers fight Red Hat's Fedora trademark
News Computer scientists at Cornell University began working in 1997 on a project to build a software tool, mainly for the benefit of librarians, that would blend content from various internal and external sources and present them in a unified form...
[November 24, 2003, 10:15]
Sun sets up open-source Solaris project
News Sun is now in the process of preparing for the project, which some Solaris engineers call Open Source Solaris in internal blogs. Sun Microsystems will create an open-source project around its Solaris 10 operating system by the end of the year...
[September 14, 2004, 11:05]
.Net developers can write for Linux using Mono
News On Thursday, Novell launched a test release of Mono, which is an open-source project that recreates Microsoft's .Net programming framework on Linux and Unix. Enterprises can utilise their internal .Net skills to build multi-platform applications...
[May 7, 2004, 17:15]
SAP project with German military stalls
News Under the three-year, $30m deal, SAP has agreed to provide accounting software to the Internal Revenue Service as part of a larger information technology renovation project at the tax agency. Software maker SAP is taking some heat for a stalled...
[November 22, 2002, 10:01]
Blogging: A double-edged sword
News Many are used for project collaboration, while others are used for social interaction at work," the white paper said. Google uses its own blogging product, Blogger.com, to create and manage several hundred internal blogs.
[September 9, 2005, 16:45]
IBM, Harvard tap grid computing for solar-cell study
News Harvard University and IBM have launched a project to identify cheap solar-energy materials, by harnessing the computing muscle of thousands of computers. The Harvard project aims to test the chemical properties of a number of organic materials...
[December 8, 2008, 14:42]
Google Chrome - an open source browser, and more...
Blog The comic itself goes into some detail on the internal structure of the project, and is licensed under Creative Commons. Through the unusual medium of a comic book, Google has apparently published details of Chrome, an open source browser with more...
[September 1, 2008, 18:44]
Intel passes Moblin on to the Linux Foundation
Blog On Thursday, the non-profit Linux Foundation (LF) announced that it was going to host the Moblin project which aims to develop mobile Linux-based applications. Moblin was a project under development by Intel which has effectively handed control...
[April 3, 2009, 17:36]
Managing large project budgets
News However, as a project gets larger it helps to have the overall budget broken down into a series of smaller, more discrete entities. Having your budget allocated at a lower level allows you to keep better control of the details and it may point out...
[August 9, 2005, 12:20]
Thus: Don't run into convergence
News There needs to be a planning phase, as convergence is a business-wide project so you have to make a careful assessment," Gross told ZDNet UK. For example, a database used by both external suppliers and internal employees would be crucial to the...
[September 16, 2005, 18:00]
Government five-year IT plan points to cloud, Web 2.0
News Other strands cover shared services, architecture and standards, open source, green IT, information security and assurance, the government IT profession, better project delivery, supply management, and internal alignment and compliance.
[December 1, 2009, 7:41]
Info site unpicks Information Act
News It includes: guidance on planning and internal training; guidance on procuring relevant IT systems; codes of practice for compliance with the act; the DCA's Project Initiation Document for implementation.
[July 2, 2004, 11:35]
