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Sun Challenged To Release Java's Code
Talkback They still don't understand that they can opensource and still trademark and more importantly, control the life of the project. Java could become the application run-time layer in linux, making underlying distros differences less disruptive and...
[February 16, 2004, 16:14]
Ultimate Firewall Protection
White Papers As opensource solutions become more common in enterprise environments, they are also becoming more intuitive. For quite some time now an opensource project called "IPCOP" has been evolving. While many admins from the Windows world were reluctant to...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Software Blocks Images Of Money
Talkback Gimp is opensource, so even if the developers adopt this watermark technology, you can take the source, remove the money-checking part and use it for your pleasure :) You can go to www.gimp.org and get yourself a copy of The GIMP.
[January 13, 2004, 17:22]
EGain Broadens Market Reach With IBM And Linux
White Papers eGain needed to respond to customer requests for further expanding its opensource platform support allowing the company to tap more deeply into this market. As part of its strategy to support open-source platforms and make it easier to integrate...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Free Network Monitoring Software For Small Networks
White Papers And for those who are small and are not allowed to think of a budget for network monitoring software, a better alternative is to start with opensource and freeware network monitoring software that reduce the time and money spent on network...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
KDE Getting Ready To Go Native On Windows
Talkback If the user has been quite pleased with OpenSource software and has many packages installed on their current system, they might just decide to switch over to Linux. No, Linux will garner more and more converts over time and we must be patient.
[February 9, 2005, 16:59]
2003 -- A CIO's Guide
News There will still be plenty of security scares on widely used products (both opensource and proprietary), and virus attacks. And, while resources like processing power, storage and network bandwidth are continuing to get cheaper, the job is made...
[January 2, 2003, 11:57]
How Blindfolded A View
Talkback I am not however blind to Opensource software which I believe should be used throughout our educational establishments, in the main this is a cost based analysis but familiarity and awareness of options is essential to students too.
[January 12, 2007, 8:54]
A Challenge To All Linux Users In The World
Blog Comment However in an opensource world there is choice and not everyone will agree about the best apps for a particular task, there are though general trends that appear and many distributions do actually come with a lot of software in common.
[May 28, 2007, 2:52]
Open-source IE Patch Hits Trust Barrier
News According to Opensource.org, the patch has been downloaded around 1,000 times since it was published on Monday. This makes users more susceptible to ruses such as phishing, in which online-banking users receive emails that seem to have been sent by...
[December 19, 2003, 15:10]
How To Choose An Ecommerce Product? - Part II
Forum It may be easy for a vendor to use an opensource product and provide the required solution but most of the opensource solutions fail in the kind of support you get and to the kind of ownership you/vendor have on the product.
[May 22, 2008, 10:46]
Is Caldera Moving Away From Linux?
News The company owns several key versions of Unix and makes the majority of its profits from commercial Unix versions, instead of the opensource Linux operating system. The change of name, to one of the best known commercial Unix brands, came weeks...
[August 28, 2002, 13:56]
As The Mac Turns 20, Has The PC Caught Up?
Talkback Even with all of the opensource software in the world people still want to use Adobe, MS, etc.all of which is possible on Mac OS (or windows) I use XP and OS X 10.3 side by side on a regular basis and find OS X substantially more stable and far...
[January 24, 2004, 1:24]
No Office On Linux 'at This Time'
Talkback Nonetheless, they (and their taxpayers) need OpenSource much more than OpenSource needs them. The option to use Open Source software in the future remains and continues to be evaluated. Here's where that came from: http://www.connectingforhealth...
[October 20, 2005, 2:08]
Strengths Of Open Source Opposing Microsoft Patent Threats
Blog Comment NOTE: because some (opensource) apps are not pre-optimized for the mac, it is only fair that the configurations used for the tests be set-up properly for each platform by domain experts .there is the notorious example of an os/x benchmark for a...
[August 4, 2007, 20:32]
Feet And Inches
Talkback "Teaching OpenSource IT in schools would be like teaching feet and inches rather than metric, totally valid to teach, but useless in the real world. Teaching an 8 year old how to use MS Office 2000 today is surely more like the Feet and Inches half...
[November 29, 2006, 18:12]
Greenpeace UK Makes 'sensible' Switch To Linux
Talkback As a long time supporter of Greenpeace, I am pleased that the decision on IT is for a greater use of Opensource solutions, this will allow more revenue to be spent on fighting major global issues that affect us all.
[March 30, 2004, 23:35]
Open Source Group Reshuffles Executives
Talkback Please dont mix opensource and free software. For more info about this subject. Least of all when writing about the free software foundation. I think Richard have tried correcting this error, hundreds of times at least.
[February 16, 2005, 16:20]
OSDL Boss Hints At Microsoft Collaboration
Talkback Because Microsoft have shoot themselft in the foot many times by telling the world over and over how bad opensource is. The effect would be a mass sell of the Microsoft stock and Red Hats share would probebly beat the sell price.
[July 12, 2005, 13:47]
Microsoft: Africa Doesn't Need Free Software
Talkback The same cannot be said of opensource/free products. The intelligence level required to support free/opensource products(including operating systems) is higher than that required for microsoft. Let us be honest about the differences between open...
[January 13, 2006, 0:25]
