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Introducing the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Part 1: Understand TOGAF and IT Architecture in Today's World - Connecting Business Needs With the Technology Infrastructure
White Papers When one is building an application for a very specific purpose - say, processing a charge to an account - one knows what one needs to do and how one needs to do it. One's architecture might be straightforward, even simple.
[May 9, 2008, 1:02]
The Dell OEM Industry Solutions Group Beefs Up the ONE Unified Technology Platform Developed by MDI Security Systems
White Papers Providing open-architecture command and control solutions for a long list of notable high-security enterprise customers around the globe. When engineers at MDI Security Systems design a global video surveillance system that is unified with access...
[June 18, 2009, 14:51]
Microsoft server bugs open the door to hackers
News Microsoft has warned of vulnerabilities in its Exchange 2000 server software and Telnet remote-access service that could open the doors to malicious hackers. However, it incorrectly gives the "Everyone" group privileges to access the registry...
[February 11, 2002, 13:48]
Sun: Open source for the masses
News Sun Microsystems is billing it as the biggest project in open source history. Today, Friday the 13th -- a target fatalistically selected by Sun back in July and achieved on time -- Sun placed all nine million lines of StarOffice 6 alpha code into...
[October 13, 2000, 12:25]
Open-source Alfresco adopts the GPL
News Alfresco, a start-up that commercialises open-source software for helping customers keep track of their digital documents, has adopted the General Public License in an effort to attract outside programmers.
[February 23, 2007, 9:22]
Open Source is the freedom of Choice, not necessarily the cheaper option.
Blog Admittedly Open Source can be cheaper if you think of the code itself not costing anything. He asked me if I use Open Source Software because it is cheaper than the alternatives. At the end of the day, whether a product is Open Source or...
[September 21, 2009, 10:06]
Wikipedia: fitting the open source framework
News The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia is often referred to as an open source project because it is written, edited and policed by a global group of volunteers. However, the open source label doesn't really fit Wikipedia.
[December 13, 2005, 13:55]
Will the cloud help or hinder open source?
Video But will that strengthen or weaken the position of open-source software, including Linux? That was the question posed to a group of experts — Linux International's Jon 'maddog' Hall, IBM's Linux advocate Bob Sutor, Professor John Darlington of...
[June 10, 2009, 12:35]
Will the cloud help or hinder open source?
News But will that strengthen or weaken the position of open-source software, including Linux? That was the question posed to a group of experts — Linux International's Jon 'maddog' Hall, IBM's Linux advocate Bob Sutor, Professor John Darlington of...
[June 10, 2009, 12:38]
MP3.com gets the open source spirit
News It took years for them to see anything substantial [out of the Mozilla open source browser effort]. The group is charged with creating standards for music distribution that incorporate technology for protecting the copyrights of musicians and...
[January 17, 2001, 9:01]
Today's the day - Domain registration open to challengers
News This is the first chink in the armour of monopoly," said Martin Burack, executive director of the Internet Society, a group that advises on Internet policy. NSI says it has gone to great lengths to comply with the US Department of Commerce's...
[April 21, 1999, 7:39]
So... is the open source model broken or not?
Blog A BusinessWeek article says the open source model is broken. The original article actually says "the open-source business model that relies solely on support and service revenue streams is failing to meet the expectations of investors", and it's by...
[December 4, 2008, 9:03]
What has The Simpsons got to do with open source?
Blog Cohen was also there to point how the team behind the Simpsons are at their core a group of creative people - a community - and tried to draw some parallels with the open source specialists in the audience.
[June 24, 2008, 18:08]
Report gives thumbs down to e-voting
News The Open Rights Group published a report on Wednesday that includes scathing criticisms of the way e-voting and e-counting proceeded at a number of sites during the local government elections last month.
[June 22, 2007, 9:16]
Mozilla backs down on browser name
News After a heated war of words with a fellow open-source development group, Mozilla.org appears to be backing down on its use of the name "Firebird" for future releases of its browser. The open-source group decided to adopt a smaller, faster version...
[May 7, 2003, 9:20]
Intel launches open source group
News Intel has created a group to focus on Linux and other open source software issues, the newest move to bring the open source operating system closer to parity with competing products from Microsoft. Intel spokesman Michael Houlihan confirmed the...
[May 11, 2005, 9:45]
Open source moves into free hardware
News A group of hardware developers is trying to bring concepts from the open-source software world to the hardware business. I started investigating open-source hardware when I was a student in the late '90s," Jamil Khatib, an open-source hardware...
[March 28, 2001, 8:22]
Pro-Linux group snaps up Microsoft patents
News A pro-open-source group said on Tuesday that it has acquired 22 patents recently sold by Microsoft — patents that the group said could have been used against Linux. The Open Invention Network said the patents were purchased from Microsoft by an...
[September 9, 2009, 8:29]
MPs: Open source faces exclusion in schools
News A group of MPs have accused a government agency of restricting schools from deploying open-source software. The group of MPs has won support from the Open Schools Alliance, a group of organisations which includes the Open Source Consortium...
[November 27, 2006, 13:37]
Digital rights group: E-voting fit only for X Factor
News The Open Rights Group has criticised the government for standing by its plans to continue pilots for electronic voting and counting in England and Wales. The Open Rights Group (ORG), a digital rights advocacy group, issued a statement on Tuesday...
[November 14, 2007, 14:19]
