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News Software also hit the headlines in September, as silicon.com reporter Nick Heath explored why malware writers are turning to open source in their attempts to garner victims' financial details. Once... [06 Oct 2009]
Amazon will be king of the cloud: Mark Shuttleworth
News Shuttleworth told a BT open source event yesterday that Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, or a closely related platform, will become the cloud standard. If alternative clouds are to compete, he said, they... [06 Oct 2009]
Internet Explorer slips again as Firefox breathes down its neck
News In August Mozilla announced the open source browser had surpassed one billion downloads. Internet Explorer's share of the global browser market has dropped again, according to new research, falling from... [06 Oct 2009]
Introduction of SSL Protocol and OpenSSL Basic
White Paper OpenSSL is an open source, multi-platform implementation of the SSL. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a kind of cryptographic protocol that provides security and data integrity for communications over... [05 Oct 2009]
Looking Beyond the Open Source and SaaS Marketing Hype: Why Fast and Cheap ECM Deployment Is a Bad Idea
White Paper If one listens to the marketing hype, Open Source and SaaS ECM seem almost too good to be true. The new kids on the block have been getting a lot of press lately as they scramble to find their niche. And... [02 Oct 2009]
Proposal of Constructing PKI on Overlay Network
White Paper This paper presents the design of foundation PKI (fPKI), a PKI system constructed on an overlay network for an open source community.fPKI can provide an alternative PKI system to the current... [02 Oct 2009]
Higher Education With Virtualization
White Paper With the help of Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services, the university deployed Dell PowerEdge servers with Intel Xeon processors running Xen open source virtualization software. Burapha... [02 Oct 2009]
Former MySQL boss joins Benchmark Capital
News Marten Mickos, the one-time chief executive of MySQL who left about a year after Sun Microsystems acquired the open source database company, has joined Benchmark Capital as an entrepreneur in residence. [01 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Symbian
Cheat Sheet However in June last year Symbian Ltd announced to the world it was to transform into an open source Foundation. So why did it decide to convert to open source? That... [01 Oct 2009]
Securing IP Networks
White Paper These security concerns are compounded by the fact that IP and open source technologies are breaking down walls within and among wireless and wireline networks, and between carriers and content owners... [01 Oct 2009]
Tom Steinberg
AS Profile Steinberg is the director of mySociety, a not-for-profit, open source organisation that set up the TheyWorkForYou website, which uses the official parliamentary record to chart what MPs say and... [30 Sep 2009]
Jim Whitehurst
AS Profile Jim Whitehurst arrives in the Agenda Setters list for the first time just under two years after taking over as president and CEO of open source software maker, Red Hat. Open... [29 Sep 2009]
Marten Mickos
AS Profile Marten Mickos left MySQL, the open source database company founded in 1995, at the beginning of the year, less than 12 months after it was acquired by Sun Microsystems. Of Mickos, another judge said:... [29 Sep 2009]
Linus Torvalds
AS Profile Linus Torvalds has only missed out on the Agenda Setters list twice (2006 and 2008) since it started in 2000 and returns in 2009 at a respectable 20, reflecting the continuing importance of open source... [29 Sep 2009]
Matt Mullenweg
AS Profile Texas-born Mullenweg founded Automattic in 2005 and is seen by some as one of the most influential people on the web due to the work his company has done to produce highly regarded open source blogging... [29 Sep 2009]
