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Software Configuration Management: The Foundation of Global Distributed Development Today
White Papers By distributing development, you can create a collaborative work environment staffed by the best developers you can hire, regardless of their location. To support distributed development, you need a Software Configuration Management (SCM) solution...
[September 28, 2009, 17:03]
Cracks in the Foundation
Blog I've been reading all of the reports of job layoffs in practically every industry and location in the world. The one that's got me intrigued though is the 5000 job layoff at Microsoft. If all 5000 of the people laid off were paid $100,000 a year...
[February 16, 2009, 7:46]
IPv6 Transitioning Management - Laying the Foundation for Managed IPv4/IPv6 Interoperation
White Papers This paper highlights the need to supplement the work within the IPv6 community on IPv6 management with mechanisms specifically to support IPv6 transitioning. As a major feature of any IPv6 network for the considerable future, management support...
[October 29, 2004, 3:00]
Tunables for the Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation Suite: Optimizing for Performance and Failover
White Papers Sun's SAN engineering philosophy is to provide a tested, optimized stack that operates with all Sun-sold storage devices in a seamless, interoperable manner, without requiring any user configuration of the driver stack.
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Photos: Inside the Free Software Foundation
News Peter Brown, the executive director of the Free Software Foundation, in his office at the organisation's headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts. On the walls of his office are copies of the Free Software Foundation's artwork, including the famous...
[April 13, 2006, 16:10]
UK businesses lagging due to IT failures
News The Work Foundation study of 3,000 UK firms, Cracking the Performance Code - How firms succeed, found a huge gulf between the productivity of companies with the top third outperforming the bottom third by £1,600 per worker, per year.
[July 20, 2005, 17:10]
Government 'must engage frontline workers' in reform
News The government is putting its IT modernisation agenda at risk by failing to engage frontline public sector workers, according to new research from the Work Foundation. Alexandra Jones, associate director of the Work Foundation, said in the report...
[September 27, 2005, 16:55]
Wikipedia planning a DVD version
News Jimmy Wales, the president of the Wikimedia Foundation, told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that there is still a lot of work to be done before it can be put on disk, but he expects it to be available by the end of 2005.
[April 7, 2005, 17:05]
Oracle quietly works with Mozilla
News The Mozilla Foundation revealed at the FOSDEM conference in February that the database giant had hired three people to work on Mozilla Lightning. Is Oracle making a major play into the collaboration space through a partnership with the Mozilla...
[May 13, 2005, 11:45]
Work still needed on e-government
News The public has mixed and contradictory views about the use of IT in the provision of services, according to research published by the Work Foundation. A typical response to the Work Foundation's focus group sessions was that the Internet is "good...
[July 11, 2005, 17:15]
Linux Foundation takes over Linux.com
News The Linux Foundation has taken over the Linux.com website, with the aim of shifting the site's focus to collaborative work. We are thrilled to add Linux.com to our list of programmes in service to the Linux community," said Jim Zemlin, executive...
[March 4, 2009, 14:16]
Government ICT use under fire
News The Work Foundation report says there is a "mismatch" between frontline staff who think the people want personalised services and the public which wants choice and flexibility in services. Commenting on the results, Alexandra Jones, senior...
[March 29, 2005, 13:10]
Pre-paying Brits won't flock to 3G
News A new study from independent research group The Work Foundation casts doubt on the ability of third-generation network operators to build successful mass-market services in the near term. It concluded that despite the explosion in take-up -- 75...
[April 1, 2003, 13:34]
US to build supercomputer grid
News The US' National Science Foundation has awarded contracts worth $53m (£37m) to build a grid that connects supercomputer clusters across the country into a single large computing resource called the Distributed Terascale Facility.
[August 10, 2001, 9:42]
Mobile tech gets cautious praise from aid groups
News Speaking at the launch of a United Nations Foundation report into the impact of mobile technology on the work of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the developing world, Danny Quah, professor of economics at the London School of Economics...
[May 7, 2008, 16:45]
Coders urged to take up open source in downturn
News In fact, all companies, programmers and other IT professionals would do well to look into free software, Georg Greve, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe, said in a speech at the CeBIT technology conference in Hanover, Germany.
[March 3, 2009, 14:07]
Red Hat hands over Fedora Linux
News Red Hat is changing course again with its free Fedora version of Linux, announcing Friday that it will turn over copyrights and development work to an outside entity called the Fedora Foundation. The establishment of the foundation comes on the eve...
[June 6, 2005, 9:45]
EclipseCon to get CRM treats
News The Eclipse Foundation oversees work on Eclipse software, which is a modular program that allows developers to write applications with several or plug-ins, from different vendors. The foundation has more than 600 committers — people who can...
[March 20, 2006, 8:20]
Red Hat unstitches Fedora Foundation
News When Red Hat announced the foundation in June 2005, the company said it had "the intent of moving Fedora project development work and copyright ownership of contributed code to the foundation. Red Hat has taken apart the Fedora Foundation, an...
[April 6, 2006, 10:50]
Trouble forming at the W3C
News The splinter group, which includes Apple, the Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software, calls itself WHAT-WG, or the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group. The move brings a new entry into the race to take forms software to the next level...
[February 18, 2005, 13:40]
