Open Source Community Wooed By Microsoft
News Microsoft is redoubling its efforts to persuade business leaders that it is committed to working more closely with the open source community. Jerry Fishenden, UK technology officer at Microsoft, took to the stage at the Open Source Business...
[June 29, 2006, 12:55]
Open Source 'is Free Like A Puppy Is Free' Says Sun Boss
News Speaking at the Executive Forum event just outside Glasgow, Scotland, McNealy was his typically rambunctious self, adding grid computing and open source to the usual industry hit-list that traditionally includes Sun rivals IBM and Microsoft.
[June 8, 2005, 17:40]
Open Source Renders Patching A Problem
Talkback The very things you claim open source needs, and that you suggest Microsoft provides.namely, updates to third party software through automatic updates.is precisely what SuSE provides through the SuSE Watcher application.
[November 18, 2005, 15:47]
Open Source: KDE Hits Back At GNOME
News When the Gnome Foundation was announced, the KDE Project issued a statement claiming the existence of the new group would have no effect on the popularity of the KDE open-source desktop. But it seems the powers behind KDE (K Desktop Environment...
[September 11, 2000, 8:22]
Open Source Renders Patching A Problem
News According to Internet services company Netcraft's latest poll, open source Web sites dominate the Web site market. The overwhelming number of open source Web sites and the widespread use of OpenSSL to secure connections create a tremendous problem...
[November 17, 2005, 11:10]
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 Guru Converting MS?
News The open-source evangelist said he'd give his standard open-source talk at Microsoft and try to convince the company that it's closed-source strategy "is a sure recipe for failure. In contrast, developers can tinker with source code that's part of...
[June 18, 1999, 8:08]
Open-source Projects Grab Dot-com Dropouts
News Open-source programmers gathered this past weekend to share ideas and dreams about new methods for distributing encrypted data across the Internet and plans for a peer-to-peer wireless backbone. The down economy has breathed new life into open...
[February 19, 2002, 11:36]
Open-source Search Looks For Web Niche
News It would be nice if there were an open-source search engine owned by the world. Called Nutch, the project is developing open-source software for locating documents online. If this is Linux, we're hoping there would be Red Hat," Cutting said...
[August 18, 2003, 17:05]
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 Authentication Scheme Gets Full Marks
News Schools should implement an open source authentication system to give parents and pupils secure access to online content, says a government organisation. Becta, the UK government's education IT strategy organisation, is recommending that schools...
[October 3, 2005, 17:05]
Open-source Guru Finds Mac OS X Too Restrictive
News Apple may be courting open-source developers with its Unix-based Mac OS X, but it doesn't have all open-source gurus convinced. Eric Raymond, the co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, told ZDNet UK that he, for one, finds Apple's "public source...
[March 26, 2002, 16:49]
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]
Microsoft: Open Source Violates 235 Patents
News Microsoft claims that free and open-source software violates more than 230 of its patents, according to a magazine report published on Sunday. OpenOffice.org is accused of infringing 45, along with 83 more in other free and open-source programs...
[May 14, 2007, 9:56]
Open Source: 'it's All About Collaboration'
News Open-source software is about more than free code and occasionally troublesome licensing models. That was the message from the main open-source discussion at the Comdex trade show on Thursday, where panelists focused on the value of collaboration...
[November 21, 2003, 9:35]
Open-Source Linux Developer SuSE AG Saves IT Expenditures With Stable And Reliable Backup And Restores Of Critical Data
White Papers SuSE Linux AG of Nuremberg is one of the leading international suppliers of the Linux open-source operating system. SuSE AG didn't do without backups in the past and used software tailored to the Linux domain.
[September 20, 2005, 0:00]
Open Source Developers Provide 'glimmer Of Hope'
Talkback Just counting bugs per line is one thing, Open Source is a clear winner there. Discussing "quality" without defining what it is is quite a useless exercise. If code usability is considered, proprietary code comes out a lot better.
[April 25, 2005, 12:49]
Open-source Programming Site Expires
News SourceXchange, an attempt to capitalise on the enthusiasm of the open-source programming movement, has shuttered its doors. The SourceXchange effort, spawned by publishing company O'Reilly and Associates and Hewlett-Packard in 1999, linked open...
[April 9, 2001, 9:22]
Business Objects: Open Source A Distant Threat
Talkback Watch your backside pal the next thing you know Open Source will be biting a lump out of it and the we can all LOL saying we told you so so many companys have said the self same thing and look at them now they almost invariabley end up...
[January 19, 2005, 0:08]
Open Source Could Save NHS
News The cash-strapped NHS would benefit from adopting open source software such as Linux, according to health service experts. It is claimed that using open source software would reduce the cost of implementing technology within the health service and...
[October 30, 2000, 13:31]

