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Open source software offers reduced procurment risks
Talkback As a way for any business or government agencies to reduce their risks when acquiring open source software, I recommend they read the following: Guide to Open Source Software for Australian Government Agencies http://www.finance.gov.au/publications...
[January 16, 2009, 20:30]
Open Source Software: A Source of Possibilities for Software Engineering Education and Empirical Software Engineering
White Papers Open source projects are an interesting source for software engineering education and research. By participating in open source projects students can improve their programming and design capabilities.
[January 2, 2009, 0:00]
Open source software may be free, but there's still money involved
Blog Serious money is being spent on employing coders to hack the kernel, and the companies responsible wouldn't do that if there was no money to be made from open source software. Open source software isn't anti-commercial, and it doesn't even just sit...
[August 21, 2009, 17:17]
Open Source Software: The Success of an Alternative Intellectual Property Incentive Paradigm
White Papers The open source software movement, which has gained publicity as the popularity of the Linux operating system has grown, provides an alternative to the economic incentives that dominate the thinking of U.S.intellectual property policy.
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
Project management software review: Open Workbench
White Papers Microsoft Project many be the benchmark in project management software, but you can find effective open source and shareware alternatives. If you've used Open Workbench or other open source and shareware project management software, join our...
[May 17, 2006, 1:00]
Open-source encryption software gets update
News The latest version of popular open-source encryption software TrueCrypt is available for download. The free open-source disk-encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux allows people to encrypt an entire hard disk partition or a storage...
[March 21, 2007, 14:23]
Open source versus free software debate rages
News Love was defending himself and the open source movement against reproaches by Richard Stallman, the chairman of the Free Software Foundation. But," said Love, "before they could become that successful, they had to develop proprietary software.
[June 25, 2001, 15:05]
Software Developer Makes File Format Conversion Quick and Easy With Open XML
White Papers Panergy Software develops products for customers who use less-common technologies and written languages. The company took advantage of Open XML Formats to create docXConverter, which converts .docx files into other formats, and Direction Fixer...
[November 4, 2008, 0:01]
Security Engineering and Open Source Software Development
White Papers Open source projects usually do not define tasks and workflows explicitly in contrast to the closed source software business. The paper wants to make open source software more secure by learning how secure systems are being built in an open source...
[May 20, 2009, 3:17]
Development of Robot Controllers Based on PC Hardware and Open Source Software
White Papers In fact, most important success factors are the use of off-the-shelf hardware and open source and/or free software, as well as a design focused on reconfigurability and portability of the control software is crucial.
[May 18, 2007, 1:00]
Recommendations for Porting Open Source Software (OSS) to Blue Gene/P
White Papers Each of the Open Source Software (OSS) components that the application is dependent upon requires a separate port - some of which will be easy and others which might not. Migrating applications from a Linux cluster to IBM's Blue Gene/P can be a...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
Using Open Source Software for Scientific Simulations, Data Visualization, and Publishing
White Papers Primarily, this is open source software. There is a growing number of software packages that can be legally downloaded from the Internet and used in educational and research projects under licenses that involve no costs and few practical restrictions.
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
Hard Real Time Quick EXAFS Data Acquisition With All Open Source Software on a Commodity Personal Computer
White Papers For ease of future growth and flexibility, almost all software components are open source with very active maintainers. This paper describes here the data acquisition subsystem of the Quick EXAFS (QEXAFS) experiment at the National Synchrotron...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Data Mining for Software Process Discovery in Open Source Software Development Communities
White Papers This paper explores techniques for discovering development processes from publicly available open source software development repositories that exploit advances in artificial intelligence. Software process discovery has historically been an...
[September 20, 2008, 0:00]
Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Policy Support
White Papers In most software markets, where FLOSS provides significant competition, open standards can only be those that allow equal access to FLOSS products. It argues that most of what is claimed for "Open standards" in recent policy debates was already...
[April 5, 2006, 1:01]
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 lab's software library, dubbed OpenCV, allows a...
[December 12, 2001, 12:10]
A Multi-Dimensional View of the "Sustainability" of Free & Open Source Software Development
White Papers Questions of "Sustainability" are at the core of much of the speculative discussion about the long-term significance of the open source software movement, and particularly the characteristic community-based mode of developing FLOSS (Free/Libre and...
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
Managing the Risks of Open Source Software
White Papers The recent evolution of the telecommunications and IT markets has promoted the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the telecommunications industry. The necessity to cut time to market requires the use of mature, standard software.
[April 1, 2009, 4:09]
NASA may launch open-source software projects
News An analyst for NASA recommended in a recent paper that the agency move some software development to an open-source model. The paper, published in late April and featured on the Slashdot discussion Web site on Friday, argues that developing software...
[May 19, 2003, 8:07]
Intel Platforms Running Open Source Software Help Indian Life Insurance Company Achieve More With Less
White Papers The company realized that continuing to deploy proprietary operating systems and software was becoming costly. Bajaj Allianz needed better control over its information technology (IT) system and turned to the open source Linux Operating System (OS...
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
