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Photos: Google takes the wrapping off Chrome OS
Photo Google released the source code for Chrome OS on Thursday, beginning the process of producing a browser-based operating system by the end of 2010 for lower-end PCs called netbooks. Although screen real estate is tight -... [23 Nov 2009]
Doing business with citizen developers: Beware the legal pitfalls
Comment Although somewhat similar to the development of the open source community, in this case individual developers are creating code for profit and likely on a closed-source basis. Is it the... [23 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source
Comment In an exclusive interview, former MySQL boss and silicon.com Agenda Setter, Marten Mickos talks to Tim Ferguson about the state of open source, Oracle's plans to buy Sun Microsystems and the value of... [19 Nov 2009]
Firefox 3.6 beta aims to improve stability
The new beta — for Windows, Mac and Linux — includes a component directory lockdown that makes it harder for other software to meddle with the open-source browser. Firefox is still open... [19 Nov 2009]
Google's Eric Schmidt on search, Android and all things Wave
News The Google boss also touched on the company's upcoming OS, Chrome, saying: "We hope to release the first open source version of Chrome OS later this year, the year 2009. Last week saw silicon.com sister... [16 Nov 2009]
Implementing Secure Internet Single Sign-On: Standalone Server Vs Open Source Toolkits
White Paper Ping Identity consistently hears from its customers, partners and even competitors that PingFederate takes significantly less time to deploy than any other federated identity option - including open... [13 Nov 2009]
New Web Threats in 2009
White Paper Techniques using rich media, open source platforms, web 2.0 collaboration tools; social networking sites and a host of emerging technologies expose networks to a new breed of web security threats. The... [13 Nov 2009]
Integrating Wired IDS With Wi-Fi Using Open-Source IDS to Complement a Wireless IDS/IPS Deployment
White Paper To address security concerns in wireless LAN deployments, many organizations have deployed Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems (WIDS) to monitor wireless activity for signs of attack. Deployed as an integrated monitoring system with the... [12 Nov 2009]
Future mobiles, Windows 7, iPhone apps and the latest gadgets
Photo Google Android is also featuring on netbooks, with Acer recently launching a device that can dual boot both the open source OS and Windows 7. Check out which other phones made the open... [12 Nov 2009]
Open Source Security Myths Dispelled
White Paper Is it risky to trust mission-critical infrastructure to open source software? Why should we pay an open source vendor when open source... [12 Nov 2009]
CSQL Enterprise
White Paper CSQL is the fastest enterprise class open source main memory relational database management system. Traditional disk based database management systems are persistent but are incapable with dealing with... [11 Nov 2009]
Guide to Choose Best Caching Strategy for Your Application
White Paper CSQL Cache is generic database caching platform to cache frequently accessed tables from existing open source or commercial database management system (Oracle, MySQL, etc) close to application tier. Web... [11 Nov 2009]
Inbox: Social networking can help you secure a job
Comment For this world open source seems to be a no-go area and judged not to align with how things should be done. The Naked CIO gets some mixed reactions to his views on the redundancy of social networks;... [11 Nov 2009]
Oracle-Sun deal draws official objections from EC
News According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing from Sun, the EC has filed a statement of objections, which says the combination of Sun's open source MySQL database product with Oracle's... [10 Nov 2009]
Photos: Firefox through the ages
Photo The Firebird name also ran into trouble because there was an open-source database project of the same name, leading Mozilla eventually to move to Firefox. Mozilla is celebrating the fifth anniversary of... [10 Nov 2009]
