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Re:The global economic crisis will provide a boost for open-source software
Talkback Cool ! When do we start seeing this on the ground then? The nose dive started last September, so it's taking a while.
[October 16, 2008, 14:23]
Open-Source Software Kit and Community Portal Advance Web Accessibility
White Papers Microsoft partnered with HiSoftware, a leading provider of software solutions that help organizations maintain compliance in areas such as accessibility, privacy, and security, to develop the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint.
[July 3, 2008, 1:01]
Learning Software Engineering Principles Using Open Source Software
White Papers To address these issues, the authors have worked on a project whose overarching goal is to teach students a subset of basic software engineering principles using source code exploration as the primary mechanism.
[April 1, 2009, 3:09]
Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
Talkback How about a generation of people who know how to use software based on recognised open standards, rather than the arbitrary ones decided on the whim of a firm whose primary motivation is money? We'll have a generation of people taught to use non...
[May 10, 2005, 13:49]
Open-source browsers pick up steam
News Meanwhile, designs for a Java-based Mozilla browser have sprung back to life in two open-source settings. Indeed, the open-source Jazilla effort, launched weeks after Netscape uncorked its client source code in March 1998, has picked up steam of...
[July 15, 1999, 8:57]
Open source - feel good, but work better.
Blog Comment As for 'benevolence', I haven't noticed that it features much in the minds of of Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Intel or any other major player in the software or hardware industry; and it could be argued that professionalism is mostly applied to the...
[May 3, 2009, 22:03]
Open source awareness growing in Scotland
Talkback Use of open formats would lessen the grip of any single vendor and make it possible for departments to choose which software actually meets their needs best rather than ending up being forced into a specific platform as the result of their data...
[August 26, 2005, 12:16]
Open source 'pressuring Microsoft pricing'
Talkback Any attempt by Microsoft to suggest that they aren't offering their discounts, but are instead trying to 'prove the value of its software' is just any attempt to leave readers so confused that they don't realize that if Microsoft's products were...
[February 20, 2004, 3:37]
Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
Talkback Curiously, once they have gotten used to linux, they have not really used windows, and 2 have sked me to remove it, as they want the extra disk space.so, really IMHO, learning linux and other non-standard software, is a matter of getting over the...
[May 10, 2005, 20:08]
Open-source payroll application launched
Talkback With open software, this scenario is not going to happen. One day, he hit the limits of the software, and decided to upgrade. To his horror, his software is so old, the vendor no longer support it. And to top it off, he's having problems exporting...
[November 26, 2004, 10:31]
Open source router firm apologises to Nortel
Blog It's a joke, and it's in poor taste, if you're a Nortel employee, but you have to admire open source router company Vyatta's readiness to take the responsibility (and the free publicity). We didn’t mean to do it… you’ve got to believe us," said...
[January 16, 2009, 17:38]
Comparison of the Enterprise Functionalities of Open Source Database Management Systems
White Papers This paper is an in-depth evaluation on open source DBMS in consideration of their applicability on enterprise-level applications. The following open source DBMS have been evaluated: Firebird 1.5.2, Ingres r3 3.0.1, MaxDB 7.5.0.23, MySQL 4.1.10 and...
[March 10, 2006, 0:01]
Signs of life in open source routers
Blog I continue to believe network hardware could show some of the strongest benefits from open source. Vyatta, the company leading the charge on open network hardware has a couple of news announcements that bear this out - a low-cost small business...
[March 26, 2008, 13:03]
VMware to go open source? Not.
Blog Someone asked VMware's chief about open source, and he made a predictable answer. Does that mean the company is going to open source its hypervisor? VMware's hypervisor to go open source? Apparently VMware boss Paul Maritz had been asked about open...
[September 19, 2008, 12:59]
White Paper: Building on the Foundation of Open Watcom Debugger Cross-Platform Tools, SciTech Software Inc. Has Extended Debugger Support for QNX Neutrino X86 Targets
White Papers If the target system can mount an NFS image of the host system source code tree, the developer can even run the remote debug session directly via a remote terminal connection like SSH. Open Watcom Debugger is already functional for debugging GNU...
[April 3, 2007, 1:00]
Open-source geeks are modern heroes, says think tank
Talkback There is a growing social software development which is making community software AND installing it in developing countires - check out http://www.barnraiser.org/
[November 29, 2004, 21:11]
Open-source fight staged on 'wrong battleground'
Talkback The companies whose license revenue would likley be threatened by such products (Siebel, Oracle, IBM) are Microsoft's competitors, and Microsoft would love to keep its Windows revenue stream and have the FLOSS software Development threat diverted...
[November 13, 2003, 23:04]
Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
Talkback Get hold of a copy of the OpenCD - although the Windows software on there is a couple of months out of date, there's a full copy copy ajority of offices use MS Office products OpenOffice is more compatible with older versions of MS Word than is MS...
[May 10, 2005, 2:26]
Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
Talkback Learning a non-standard software? Sounds like the same mentality of those who shouted “get a horse” when 1 in a 1000 were choosing to try out the “new standard” .the horseless carriage. Today's “standard” is just a milestone along the highway.
[May 10, 2005, 16:44]
Open source developers step up anti-patent campaign
Talkback Hi, about software patetns: MS is the biggest proponent of software patents in the EU. The action is meant to show MS infringes just as many / more patents than any other software firm. I started an action, mentioning patents-numbers may MS...
[April 15, 2005, 22:31]
