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Open Source e-commerce WAP applications released
News E-commerce company OpenSales releases what it claims are the first comprehensive open source e-commerce applications for WAP Wednesday. Bill Claybrook, research director at IT consultancy the Aberdeen Group is also enthusiastic about moving open...
[May 24, 2000, 15:36]
Embedding Open Source BI in Mission Critical Applications: Dos and Don'ts
White Papers If you're wondering if Open Source BI is ready for the enterprise, consider that savvy enterprises prefer Open Source BI for mission-critical business applications. Open Source BI provides great new opportunities, but there are still challenges and...
[January 4, 2007, 7:59]
Model-Based Testing of Community-Driven Open-Source GUI Applications
White Papers Although the World-Wide-Web (WWW) has significantly enhanced Open-Source Software (OSS) development, it has also created new challenges for Quality Assurance (QA), especially for OSS with a Graphical-User Interface (GUI) front-end.
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
Talkback How about a generation of people who know how to use computers, rather than just applications? 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...
[May 10, 2005, 13:49]
Open source would 'fork' Java - Sun
Talkback We are stuck utilizing an older variation of Java (1.3.1_02) as any deviation from this version, including 1.3.1_01 and 1.3.1_03 will break our applications. Yeah, right. Incompatible versions. Come on Sun.
[March 17, 2004, 15:34]
Open-source fight staged on 'wrong battleground'
Talkback I agree with other commentators, it is obviously in Microsoft's interest to encourage FLOSS Developers to "focus on enterprise level applications", providing them with time to implement a new filesystem in Longhorn to "lock-in" the data of their...
[November 13, 2003, 23:04]
Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
Talkback Look at the software you get when doing a full (LINUX-) install: applications like openoffice, scribus, gimp .webserver database compilers rich set of example sourccode How very amazing this result is .
[May 9, 2005, 16:02]
Open-source fight staged on 'wrong battleground'
Talkback Competing with MS in applications while This is completely unrealistic. An application needs an OS to run on, and everyone who tries to compete with MS in the application space one windows loses horribly.
[November 13, 2003, 19:47]
Gartner: Open source on Windows is the future
Talkback Much of the rest of the industry seems to be diminishing the OS and downplaying it's importance as web services and hosted applications become more prevalent.the real question is .Windows, Solaris, linux .does it matter.why would anyone care?
[June 28, 2006, 10:55]
Gartner: Open source on Windows is the future
Talkback "The biggest growth area we see is commercial applications on Linux. You might want to underline that. Certainly if you happen to be managing crash course trained .Net developers that are "motivated" to deliver rather then to understand underlying...
[June 25, 2006, 22:33]
Microsoft rubbishes school open source report
Talkback The vast majority of the IT real world, that is 'desktops' is Windows and MS Applications. The idea of education is to 'educate' people how to live in the real world. These are what you need to know if you want a job in the real world.
[May 17, 2005, 0:25]
Life after Microsoft - One firm's complete conversion to open source
Talkback Lets face it, if only , as Ernie says, applications developers stuck with alternatives the despicable overweight monolistic arrogance of Microsoft would be whittled away. Let's all do our bit by seeking alternatives and speading the word to those...
[August 28, 2003, 16:53]
UK Government reckons this open source thingy could catch on maybe
Blog Comment In terms of re-use, I know of some wonderful Cobol applications that the government might be interested in.or if they really want to take a huge leap forward, perhaps some FORTRAN as well. Andrew - Good Heavens, is there really a "Minister for...
[February 25, 2009, 16:17]
Taking sides in the open source community
Talkback How can FLOSS software attract new applications in value-added devices? I believe the majority of FLOSS community will agree a solution which can keep the door open for more businesses and opportunities.
[October 13, 2006, 3:05]
Microsoft rejects IBM strategy and open source 'dorks'
Talkback Then how many more will you get with Microsoft applications that require an Internet connection in order to function? Also, remember that Microsoft tried bundling various applications together into Windows before, and ended up with a massive...
[November 16, 2005, 17:19]
Strengths of Open Source opposing Microsoft patent threats
Blog Comment We need more people to think about this and other details such as which applications we should test. freedom: I like your reasoning. Would you like to prepare a draft of the rules of the experiment, based on what you wrote?
[June 7, 2007, 5:39]
Life after Microsoft - One firm's complete conversion to open source
Talkback A 'few proprietary applications' on top of a whole new OS doesn't sound like a breeze for the IT department. This reads like a case of sour grapes after being caught with the wrong number of licences.
[August 26, 2003, 17:03]
Managing & Using MySQL: Open Source SQL Databases for Managing Information & Web Sites - Java
White Papers Java is one of the simplest languages in which the user can write MySQL applications. Its database access API, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), is one of the more mature database-independent APIs for database access in common use.
[October 24, 2007, 1:00]
CRM Total Cost of Ownership: Comparing Open Source Solutions to Proprietary Solutions
White Papers Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications are well understood. So why are these applications so expensive to buy or rent? Their functional components are straightforward, the technology is sound and mature, and the benefits of successful...
[June 19, 2006, 22:01]
Facebook to go open source?
Blog Well, basically it would mean that applications developed for the Facebook platform would be able to work on other social networking sites - something that already happens for FB apps on Bebo. Well, at least its application platform.
[June 23, 2008, 15:54]
