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Open source application service launched by Red Hat
Blog So far RHX only has 14 open source application providers signed up but Red Hat director of online services Matt Mattox claimed that the relatively small number of app providers is actually a good thing - as users are not overwhelmed with providers.
[May 10, 2007, 17:33]
Open-source payroll application launched
News Clockwork Software Systems launched PayThyme, an open-source payroll application, in Birmingham on Thursday. Tom Knowles, the IT manager at the bakery, said it decided to switch to the open-source payroll application after its original payroll...
[November 25, 2004, 14:50]
WebLogic Suite Vs. Open Source Application Servers: The True Picture
White Papers This paper looks in detail at how WebLogic Suite and open-source application server technologies (including JBoss EAP) compare along three of the most important dimensions for evaluating infrastructure software: cost, quality of service, and...
[July 13, 2009, 0:00]
Open source application server gets Twisted
News Zope developers have replaced one of their core components in the latest version of the open source application server, bringing potential performance and scalability benefits. The application server, which was made open source by Zope Corporation...
[January 10, 2006, 16:15]
Application architecture data published from 2,500 open source projects
Blog With this is mind; I mention the fact that that this week sees the publication of application architecture data from over 2,500 popular Open Source software projects. It includes application architecture files and diagrams designed for developers...
[February 18, 2009, 7:26]
Application compatibility and open source rendering issues
Blog With Adobe, I am facing an interminable battle with rendering issues in the open source ‘simple’ document viewer Evince. Why was I trying to read PDF’s outside of Acrobat you may ask - well, I work with a lot of developers and DBAs who like to run...
[March 26, 2009, 7:00]
Open-source payroll application launched
Talkback Here's an example on why you should base your business on open systems: With open software, this scenario is not going to happen. A friend of mine used to use a proprietary accounting system to run his business on.
[November 26, 2004, 10:31]
Open-source payroll application launched
Talkback From Jim Welch, Clockwork Software Systems In comparing PayThyme to proprietary payrolls, especially in the bottom and middle ranges, it needs to be emphasised that PayThyme has no inbuilt limit on the number of employees or on other key aspects.
[November 25, 2004, 15:43]
Application compatibility and open source rendering issues
Blog Comment The open source alternatives are faster for sure. just because it didn't work in one package that happens to have an open source license *doesn't* mean everything else that uses an open source license is as crap.
[March 26, 2009, 10:42]
Application compatibility and open source rendering issues
Blog Comment I thought I'd give the open office PDF tool a go for my invoicing. But for this one niggle I would use open office for my invoices and just use acrobat for those 'special' occasions when its ok for me to embed audio and video into the document.
[March 26, 2009, 9:34]
Application compatibility and open source rendering issues
Blog Comment I did not mean to imply that open source was cr@p in that sense, but I see why you would have gotten that impression. I think given the HUGE popularity of Acrobat and the fact that I am very happy with it -- and was especially impressed with the...
[March 26, 2009, 10:59]
Open source CRM firm targets Oracle customers
News SugarCRM is offering support for the Oracle 9i database in the latest edition of its open source CRM product, Sugar Enterprise Edition. The previous edition of SugarCRM, Sugar Professional, could only be used with the open source MySQL database.
[August 17, 2005, 17:00]
Quesgen Systems: Using the Vyatta Open-Source Router and Firewall to Secure Hosted Medical Data
White Papers QuesGen provides a hosted online application for clinical researchers to share and manage medical research data. The QuesGen service is an innovative application for medical researchers to manage study data simply and securely over the Internet.
[November 4, 2008, 0:01]
Saving lives with mobile open source
News Episurveyor is written to run in SuperWaba, which is an open-source super-set of Java that can run on mobile devices. At the time I was aware of some data-collection or data-analysis programmes that had been created by public health authorities...
[June 6, 2008, 15:25]
Europe extends open source resource
News The European Commission is launching a resource for public sector organisations to share open source code and applications. The uncatchily named OSOR (Open Source Observatory and Repository) aims to improve the return on investment of open source...
[October 12, 2006, 17:25]
HTML 5 drops open-source video codec
News However, "there is no suitable codec that all vendors are willing to implement and ship", Hickson wrote on the website of the Web Hypertext Application Technology (WHAT) Working Group, the coalition of companies working to develop HTML 5.
[July 3, 2009, 17:08]
Open-source projects at risk from repository flaw
Talkback "The Subversion system attempts to improve the usability and security of the CVS application" Actually Subversion improves on the core functionality of CVS, clearing up a number of extremely annoying architecture-level bugs.
[May 24, 2004, 3:53]
Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
Talkback And, by the way, creating a client/server environment, where you have an application server and cheap/old pc's as terminals help to reduce the hardware costs, too, as exactly this possibilty is a LINUX/Unix standard feature.
[May 9, 2005, 16:02]
Open source developers provide 'glimmer of hope'
Talkback Just another source of continued resource drain. I figure that there must be a resource leak in the OS, or some of the DLLs that the application are using that is causing the slow down. I think that Coplein assumptions about software quality are...
[April 22, 2005, 18:34]
Open-source fight staged on 'wrong battleground'
Talkback An application needs an OS to run on, and everyone who tries to compete with MS in the application space one windows loses horribly. At best an application might gain share until the next release of windows, at which point either the
[November 13, 2003, 19:47]
