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Video: Microsoft, Novell, open source
News Novell chief technology officer Jeff Jaffe explains why the Novell-Microsoft deal is good for open source, and says many software customers need open source and Windows interoperability.
[November 7, 2006, 11:06]
Open source: It's economically superior
News Instead, Augustin focused his remarks on the economic superiority of open-source methodology compared with less efficient closed-source methodologies. Open-source is just more economically efficient than proprietary code," Augustin said.
[February 4, 2000, 14:41]
Microsoft: open source is flawed
News Microsoft on Thursday stepped up its long-running battle against the open-source software movement as one of its chief strategists compared the movement to business practices that helped sink hundreds of dot-coms.
[May 4, 2001, 8:13]
Open Source: Is It Just One Big Hack?
White Papers A new phenomenon of Open Source Movement and Free Software has brought about a new revolution in the developer community. The latest buzz word in this field seems to be Open Source and almost everybody seems to be propagating the idea.
[April 28, 2006, 1:00]
Sun: Open source Java won't change anything for developers
News Sun's decision to make Java SE open source won't make any difference to the majority of Java programmers, according to the company's chief open source officer. This has been a perspective I've had on open source Java SE for some time: there are...
[August 16, 2006, 13:05]
Open-source Eclipse unveils Ajax projects
News The Eclipse Foundation, an open-source consortium, on Tuesday detailed three projects designed to make Ajax-style web development easier. Meanwhile, the NetBeans project, which is the primary open-source rival to Eclipse, on Monday announced that...
[March 8, 2007, 8:41]
Open-source group to meet BBC over iPlayer
News The Open Source Consortium is to meet with the BBC Trust — the broadcaster's independent governing body — to discuss concerns about a cross-platform version of the BBC's iPlayer.iPlayer is the BBC's online on-demand television service, which was...
[July 17, 2007, 13:25]
Open source: New target of malware?
Talkback As all Open Source OS"s become more popular they are going to be targeted, but not with the same success rate as windoze. The nix's are still more secure than windoze and can be hardened more effective that the Redmond swiss cheese OS.
[June 18, 2007, 13:54]
Open Source only viable way to do shared-services
Talkback DfT should take a leaf out of Becta's book and start investigating Open Source. If they spent even a couple of hours investigating how 'shared-services' is done in the real world, then even our Microsoft-obsessed Government would figure out that it...
[May 23, 2008, 14:15]
Open source networking opens its doors to businesses
Blog It's difficult to know exactly how excited to get about open source networking projects. So should businesses be looking at open source networking? And who wants to hack into a little-used open source router?
[February 7, 2007, 17:02]
Open-source payroll application launched
News Clockwork Software Systems launched PayThyme, an open-source payroll application, in Birmingham on Thursday. It already runs the majority of its systems on Linux, including an accounts and electronic point of sale system, and Knowles was keen to...
[November 25, 2004, 14:50]
Open source projects: Why it pays to keep quiet
News Large companies and analysts that work with open source are fond of talking about vendor "sensitivity" when they are explaining why some customers are reluctant to go public about migrations away from proprietary software.
[November 25, 2005, 14:15]
Open Source Routing in High-Speed Production Use
White Papers In almost 10 years the author has used Open Source Routers in mission critical networking to bring Internet connectivity to many tens of thousands users. Needless to say Uppsala University is one of the largest universities in Sweden and it is a...
[February 6, 2009, 0:00]
Red Hat: Open source driven by anti-US sentiment
News Anti-US feelings are boosting the international market for open-source software, according to the president and chief executive of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst. I never thought I would say this but, actually, being very unpopular in the world, as...
[March 26, 2008, 15:27]
Open source gets UK public sector boost
News A group of open-source providers that aims to promote the deployment of open source in the public sector was launched on Monday. The consortium, known as the Open Source Consortium (OSC), has over 60 members, the majority of which are based in the UK.
[December 2, 2004, 16:55]
Open source renders patching a problem
Talkback On the other hand, the open source community continues to struggle with developing an integrated patch management solution If you had not been living under a rock for 2 decades, you would have known that patch management is not a problem...
[November 18, 2005, 8:11]
Open source reshaping the services market
News Open source reshaping the services market The services market associated with enterprise computing is being shaken up massively by the rise of open source software The open source movement has already rewritten the rules for how software is...
[January 10, 2005, 18:15]
Open source sharpens competitive edge
News One of a growing cadre of open source companies, Zimbra plans to add joint document creation and sharing to its messaging and collaboration software at the LinuxWorld conference. A significant difference with Red Hat and the round of open source...
[August 16, 2006, 17:30]
Open source to change the face of software says report
News Open source ideas will change the face of the software industry by the year 2004, according to new research published by research company Forrester. Forrester predicts software companies will be forced to shift from proprietary business models to...
[August 17, 2000, 7:17]
Open source gurus issue patent warning
News Two open source leaders joined Linux founder Linus Torvalds in disparaging software patents Tuesday, the newest volley in a battle that pits the cooperative programming philosophy against Microsoft. Recent events have drawn attention to the...
[February 2, 2005, 8:10]
