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WiMAX, Portability, & Proprietary Market Analysis
White Papers This paper is a bottom up look at the market and provides historical, current, and future trends for proprietary, WiMAX, and portable radios. It shows the cross over rate from proprietary radios to WiMAX, as well as the take-up rate for portable...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Proprietary Vendors Lose £30bn To Open Source
News Open-source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating into the annual revenues of proprietary software vendors by $60bn (£30bn) a year, according to research.
[April 22, 2008, 13:46]
Proprietary Software: A Defence
Talkback Proprietary software WAS an extremely successful business model. Large foreign software companies did not become "centres of software innovation using the revenue generation power of proprietary software".
[December 19, 2003, 8:41]
Proprietary Software: A Defence
Talkback GPL and proprietary software are not at complete odds. Nothing to stop companies writing proprietary applications for Linux, and make money, create jobs etc.etc as author has advocated. Mainly a question of trusting Microsoft Proprietary software...
[December 17, 2003, 16:16]
Perspective On Open Source Software (OSS) Vs. Commercial Proprietary Software
White Papers Although software that has been unencumbered by intellectual property restrictions (or at least enforced restrictions) has been freely developed and shared since software was created, it is only within the last few years that the phenomenon most...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Standards, Money And Proprietary Code: Why IBM Passed On JBoss
News JBoss' Java application server contains a significant proprietary component even while it adheres to the J2EE standards. JBoss has a lot of proprietary JBoss. IBM considered acquiring open source Java middleware company JBoss, but chose to go a...
[February 20, 2006, 17:00]
Proprietary Past Looms Over Microsoft OOXML Hopes
News It's being played out in circles that don't involve normal participants," she said, adding that Microsoft's proprietary legacy may have galvanised users from the start. More than 30 member countries of the International Standards Organisation (ISO...
[February 28, 2008, 15:27]
How The Software Economy Is Driven By Proprietary Work
Talkback Unless you chose Linux, FreeBSD, or another open-source operating system, you would likely build your application atop some proprietary platform. Interesting -- given tthat your own site is running on an Apache/Linux combination.in fact, if I *were...
[June 16, 2004, 16:51]
Beyond Proprietary Computing
White Papers By adopting an open, multi-vendor computing model rather than a closed, proprietary strategy, businesses can realize new levels of scalability, reliability, manageability, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
VA Linux To Sell Proprietary Software
News VA Linux Systems, once one of the flagships of the open-source software world, will rely on sales of proprietary software in the future, the company said today as it reported a $290 million (£200m) loss for the most recent quarter.
[August 24, 2001, 17:20]
Breaking Free Of The Proprietary Grip: Oracle And Sun
White Papers Ready to free your business from the rigid, proprietary Microsoft/Intel hardware & software stack? Tune in!
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Office To Work With Proprietary Back-ends
News Adherence to basic XML ensures that disparate computing systems can recognise data, but Microsoft and other software makers commonly add proprietary extensions that control how data is presented. No vendor can afford to engage in those proprietary...
[July 17, 2003, 12:48]
PQ Corporation Migrates Business-Critical SAP Applications From Proprietary Platforms To A Dell PowerEdge 8450 Platform
White Papers The company recently moved a suite of business-critical SAP R/3 applications from proprietary servers to Dell PowerEdge database and application servers. PQ Corporation is the world's largest volume producer of soluble silicates and solid glass...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Are Proprietary RISC Servers More Expensive Than Their UNIX Alternatives?
White Papers The perception that all proprietary systems are more expensive than UNIX-based systems has been clearly disputed by the findings of this white paper. Total Cost of Ownership is an important factor when purchasing RISC servers since acquisition...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
SugarCRM Closes In On Proprietary Vendors
News Non-technical people can learn how to use this customisation tool in five minutes, Roberts claimed, adding that it gives Sugar Suite 2.5 parity with the proprietary CRM products offered by vendors such as Siebel and Salesforce.com.
[January 25, 2005, 16:10]
Open Sourcing Your Proprietary App: An Act Of Desperation?
Blog Having dinner with James Reinders, head of Intel's software division this week, conversation turned to the wisdom of releasing proprietary software as open source. To try to answer this, Intel compiled a list of proprietary applications that have...
[January 26, 2007, 9:58]
The End Of The Proprietary Era: Itanium 2-Based Solutions Are Changing The Economics Of Business-Critical Computing
White Papers Market momentum for Itanium 2-based solutions is growing worldwide, as businesses move away from proprietary architectures to reduce their total costs and achieve higher levels of performance, scalability, and availability.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Migrating Proprietary Software-Based Services To Open Platforms
White Papers The purpose of this white paper is to help IT organizations assess the amount of effort involved in migrating network-based services including identity, file/print sharing, e-mail and Web hosting from proprietary Microsoft-based approaches to open...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Open-source Code Contains 'as Many Flaws' As Proprietary
News The source code for a newer version of the Apache Web server software is of the same quality as proprietary competitors at a similar stage of development, a new study has found. The comparable defect rate indicates that open-source software starts...
[July 1, 2003, 11:12]
VA Releases Proprietary Software
News VA Linux Systems on Tuesday announced a new proprietary version of SourceForge, the collaborative programming software that now is the centerpiece of the company's survival strategy. The new SourceForge Enterprise Edition 3.0, however, is a...
[November 7, 2001, 16:37]
