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Commercial help for open source security package
News However, they are quite successful, because the scanner is free and the source code is available and portable to any platform.eEye is still plotting its strategy, deciding between using the open source antivirus technology and licensing a...
[December 13, 2005, 9:00]
Open-source cloud platform goes commercial
Blog The commercial venture has raised $5.5m in venture capital, Eucalyptus said in a statement on Wednesday. Eucalyptus, an open-source project aimed at making it possible to set up Amazon Web Services-compatible private cloud infrastructures, has...
[April 29, 2009, 13:15]
Evaluating Software Engineering Processes in Commercial and Community Open Source Projects
White Papers This paper describe a current study for obtaining information about management of commercial and community open source projects. Leaders of more than 75 open source projects have been interviewed and surveyed.
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
No open source company can become a commercial monopoly
Talkback GPL does not stop a company becoming a commercial monopoly even in the open source market. No open source company can become a commercial monopoly. If some Linux and open source firms have failed, then they have failed for the same reasons that...
[January 16, 2009, 20:18]
Avid Technology Choosing Commercial Open Source for CRM Success
White Papers Avid transacts tens of thousands of sales every year with substantial data transfer, storage and retrieval requirements. In order to manage all this activity and data, Avid needed a Sales Force Automation (SFA) system that could offer an efficient...
[July 14, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft Koolaid
Talkback Open Source is going to bring down the commercial world, put all IT wonks out of business and shoot your dog. The only difference between commercial Open Source companies and commercial closed source companies is that the code the paid developers...
[March 8, 2007, 15:23]
BitRock Case Study: SugarCRM
White Papers SugarCRM is the world's leading provider of commercial open source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. As a commercial open source company, one of SugarCRM's top priorities is to grow the SugarCRM user base as quickly as possible.
[July 13, 2007, 1:00]
Coders 'have support concerns' over open source
Talkback .but open source/free softwares have nothing against commercial "support" or accountability. Just a note , reread the eula of all your commercial "closed source" products. Even the open nature of exchange allow an easy evaluation of a product : is...
[January 20, 2005, 11:13]
Open Enterprise Server to get February release
News Novell plans to begin shipping in February its Open Enterprise Server, which combines open source and commercial networking platforms. Open Enterprise Server "represents the successful result of an ambitious effort to meld traditional commercial...
[October 11, 2004, 16:35]
Open source threatens Java servers
News Analysts say it's difficult to measure the extent to which open-source Java application servers, such as Tomcat and JBoss, have eaten into the revenue of commercial providers of Java application servers.
[February 14, 2003, 14:04]
Microsoft: Open source 'not reliable or dependable'
News It isn't clear from Murray's statement which category he believes commercial open source companies, such as Red Hat and MySQL, fit in to. A senior Microsoft executive told a BBC World documentary that people should use commercial software if they...
[May 19, 2006, 13:30]
Ballmer: We are winning on server and desktop
News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has criticised the lack of innovation in open-source software and accused the community of merely trying to "clone" commercial software. Technology innovation has happened much more from commercial companies than open...
[July 13, 2004, 17:30]
Open source picks some new fights
News Now two open-source projects have launched efforts to assemble "stacks" of software applications that offer an open-source equivalent to commercial software from Microsoft, Oracle, BEA Systems and others.
[November 22, 2004, 14:45]
MySQL gets gold star on bug test
News A source-code analysis of MySQL, a popular open source program at the heart of many Web sites, revealed few bugs compared with the number found in commercial code, testing company Coverity said Friday.
[February 7, 2005, 8:50]
Ballmer: We are winning on server and desktop
Talkback Technology innovation has happened much more from commercial companies than open source. Open source has just been trying to do clones of commercial software. Does Ballmer have a clue how much open source software there actually is out there ?
[July 13, 2004, 20:37]
vTiger launches open source CRM
News India-based vTiger on Wednesday released vTiger 3.2, the first commercial version of its open source customer relationship management application. Indian company vTiger on Wednesday released vTiger 3.2, the first commercial version of its open...
[December 31, 2004, 11:40]
JBoss offers customers legal protection
News In an effort to offer the same guarantees as commercial software companies, open-source Java server software company JBoss Group will indemnify its customers from legal liability associated with its software.
[November 17, 2003, 8:37]
Industry backs Mozilla's commercial move
News The IT industry has reacted positively to the Mozilla Foundation's decision to create a commercial subsidiary that will be responsible for the development and distribution of its open source products.
[August 3, 2005, 17:20]
Open-Xchange offers free trial
News Open-Xchange is making its commercial features available as a free trial, as part of a drive to get more users onto the open source Microsoft Exchange competitor. The server is available in bundles with the two main commercial Linux distributions...
[September 20, 2006, 16:35]
Munich picks its Linux distro
News The City of Munich has chosen to migrate its 14,000 desktops to a free Linux distribution, rather than a commercial version of the open source operating system. Peter Hofmann, the project leader of the Linux migration, codenamed LiMux, said that he...
[April 15, 2005, 15:45]
