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Selling Your Job: Tips for Successfully Marketing Your Open Positions
White Papers There may be thousands of open job positions available annually in the United States in the company's area of expertise. What is one doing to ensure that the openings stand out amongst all of the other open positions?
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Denmark urges govt support for open source
Talkback Of course the only really open format is a text file comprising ASCII format characters. If you use ANY other file format for archive purposes, it will become obsolete. This is in addition to the extra storage capacity required.
[October 27, 2003, 8:39]
Microsoft ready for open source in schools fight
News Microsoft is ready to fight competitors entering the IT education market, it said on Monday, after a leaked government report highlighted the benefits of open source software for schools. In an email to ZDNet UK, the software company said that...
[May 9, 2005, 16:40]
Introducing the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Part 3: Create an Enterprise Architecture With TOGAF
White Papers This paper walks through how to begin that process by leveraging an existing architectural model like The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). When considering the implementation of an enterprise architecture, one can begin to feel...
[April 30, 2008, 1:02]
Ubuntu takes early lead in Open Source Census
Blog They announced it in December, but OpenLogic's census of open source software is now actually open for business. It turns out I have 11 open source packages on that machine. I've downloaded and run the client software from the census site, and...
[April 16, 2008, 14:46]
All the open source security you need?
Blog There's a list of 75 good open source security applications, on eSecurity Planet. If nothing else, the list - which we found linked from Linux Today - is a strong argument in favour of open source within security, and evidence of its increasing...
[April 29, 2008, 12:36]
Emergency response team picks open source telephony
News An emergency response centre in South Africa has implemented an open source VoIP telephony system to cut the cost of handling calls. Asterisk, an open-source application that provides all the functionality of a standard private branch exchange (PBX...
[February 8, 2006, 9:55]
China, Korea and Japan close to open-source deal
News Three North Asian countries are closer to signing a deal to co-develop an open-source operating system to replace Windows, according to the Japan news daily Nihon Keisai Shimbun. As in other parts of the developed world, in Asia open-source...
[September 1, 2003, 13:00]
Novell emphasises open-source commitment
News At Novell's annual Brainshare customer conference, the company said it is bundling open-source software with its own commercial products, including its flagship NetWare operating system, and creating incentives to get open-source developers to use...
[April 16, 2003, 10:19]
Expunging the myths of open source
Talkback Stallman's software every day, but on the topic of "open source software" he is confused. When a bunch of us met in Palo Alto in 1998 and decided to call it "open source" rather than "free", it was to be inclusive of the BSD license.
[December 9, 2004, 17:28]
Sun plugs open standard into VirtualBox upgrade
News Sun on Wednesday updated its VirtualBox virtualisation software to version 2.2, adding features such as support for the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard. It also added support for Windows 7 and the upcoming Snow Leopard version of Mac OS X...
[April 8, 2009, 16:19]
Local authorities keen on open source
News Cost, security and dissatisfaction with Microsoft will drive almost two-thirds of local authorities to increase their use of open source software over the next three years, according to new research. The survey of 99 local authorities by local...
[May 10, 2005, 15:50]
Nokia's Series 40 won't be open-sourced
Blog Heard the rumour about Series 40 being made open source? According to a spokesperson, they have "no plans to open source Series 40". They also thought I might have confused Series 40 with Series 60, which is going open source along with Symbian...
[August 22, 2008, 16:53]
Apple tried open source defence in ad case
Blog Apple said the Safari web browser on the iPhone was built to open internet standards, the same as Safari on a home or office computer, and supported open standard languages such as CSS, JavaScript and Ajax.
[August 27, 2008, 11:32]
Not Open Source
Talkback the SugarCRM Public License (SPL) is not mentioned on the site of the OSI [www.opensource.org] which is the keepsake of all true open source licenses. However the term 'open source' is really not appropriate!
[March 12, 2007, 14:05]
Google Chrome - an open source browser, and more...
Blog Through the unusual medium of a comic book, Google has apparently published details of Chrome, an open source browser with more than a hint of being a complete system. It also uses the open source Webkit rendering engine, which it shares with...
[September 1, 2008, 18:44]
Intel gives PCs eyes with open-source software
News Intel has updated its open-source software to help computers use two cameras in the same way that people use their eyes to recognise objects and gain depth perception, the company said on Tuesday. The update came out of Intel's research lab in...
[December 12, 2001, 12:10]
Intel launches open source group
News Intel has created a group to focus on Linux and other open source software issues, the newest move to bring the open source operating system closer to parity with competing products from Microsoft. Intel spokesman Michael Houlihan confirmed the...
[May 11, 2005, 9:45]
IBM targets SMEs with open source Java buy
News IBM on Tuesday said it acquired privately held start-up Gluecode Software, a company that offers a low-end, open source alternative to IBM's WebSphere line. Based in El Segundo, California, Gluecode sells corporate customers services around a suite...
[May 11, 2005, 10:15]
Citigroup buys into open source
Talkback "But open source systems don't offer a 'significant' competitive edge, and the cost benefits are 'frothy and overhyped' Oh, what codswallop. Read this: http://www.localtechwire.com/article.cfm? u=13851
[April 27, 2006, 10:49]
