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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]
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 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]
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]
Advantages of Amanda Over Proprietary Backup Software
White Papers This white paper discusses how Amanda compares to proprietary backup software. It will help people understand some key Amanda advantages, and will help them evaluate Amanda for protecting their data. Today there are a number of choices when...
[April 3, 2009, 1:22]
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]
DeviceVM's proprietary/Linux split explained
Blog Covering Asus' adoption of DeviceVM's Splashtop software in all its motherboards and some laptops, we were wondering exactly which parts were proprietary and which were Linux - hence pulling back from calling it a "Linux OS".
[June 2, 2008, 12:39]
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]
Suse Linux gives proprietary modules the boot
News In a change of heart, Novell has ceased distributing proprietary software modules such as 3D video drivers that plug into the Linux kernel. With the move, Novell is aligning itself with the Free Software Foundation, which shuns proprietary software...
[August 1, 2006, 16:15]
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]
Oracle wants to sell proprietary appliances? Fat chance...
Blog Now look at what Sun's selling: mainly proprietary hardware, though admittedly with more of a nod towards standard hardware than before. Proprietary software. So Oracle, having bought Sun, wants to retain Sun's hardware portfolio.
[May 11, 2009, 15:49]
CRM Total Cost of Ownership: Comparing Open Source Solutions to Proprietary Solutions
White Papers This paper breaks down three important points that have significant cost associations that proprietary CRM solutions need to address. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications are well understood.
[June 19, 2006, 22:01]
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]
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 $290 million (£200m) loss for the most recent quarter.
[August 24, 2001, 17:20]
VA releases proprietary software
News VA Linux Systems on Tuesday announced a new proprietary version of SourceForge, the collaborative programming software that now is the centerpiece of the company's survival strategy. The new SourceForge Enterprise Edition 3.0, however, is a...
[November 7, 2001, 16:37]
Proprietary past looms over Microsoft OOXML hopes
News It's being played out in circles that don't involve normal participants," she said, adding that Microsoft's proprietary legacy may have galvanised users from the start. More than 30 member countries of the International Standards Organisation (ISO...
[February 28, 2008, 15:27]
HP: Open source can be more profitable than proprietary
News HP claims it has started to make higher margins from open source than proprietary software in some instances, due to the support costs associated with migration. HP is urging businesses to embrace open source, claiming the market for non...
[October 29, 2006, 13:03]
Open-source code contains 'as many flaws' as proprietary
News The source code for a newer version of the Apache Web server software is of the same quality as proprietary competitors at a similar stage of development, a new study has found. The comparable defect rate indicates that open-source software starts...
[July 1, 2003, 11:12]
The End of the Proprietary Era
White Papers Businesses are moving away from proprietary architectures to reduce their TCO and improve performance, scalability, and availability. New Dual-Core Itanium® 2-based solutions provide unbeatable flexibility, scalable performance and mainframe-class...
[January 25, 2007, 11:12]
DeviceVM's proprietary/Linux split explained
Blog Comment Wouldn't it be nice to turn your computer on and and be working in a few seconds, instead of a couple of minutes? I'm a Linux user, thanks to M$, and it's unstable, insecure and buggy software. By putting Linux on the motherboard, you can have a...
[June 5, 2008, 14:35]
