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IBM warns ISO to shape up
News We have a good set of standards organisations around the world, and we would like to be a positive and productive member of this community. Mark Taylor of the Open Source Consortium:... [24 Sep 2008]
Sun goes for virtualisation x-factor
News Keeping with the open source theme, Sun also launched the xVMServer.org yesterday, an online open source community to develop and improve the product. Although the product is free to download, support... [11 Sep 2008]
A Geography-Aware Scalable Community Wireless Network Test Bed
White Paper Given the challenges that have arisen in construction, deployment, and maintenance of wireless mesh networks, the paper outlines a broad experimental research program in the area of medium-to-large scale... [04 Aug 2008]
Virginia Community College System Protects Services for 240,000 Users With NetApp's Technology
White Paper Established in 1966, the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) spans 23 community colleges on 40 campuses across the state. They wanted to ensure (24x7) availability of critical tier... [25 Jun 2008]
Leading a horse to water
Comment It's a testament to his standing in the CIO community and an acknowledgement of just how critical his role is. Much of what he is involved in is high level and he couches the issues in... [23 Jun 2008]
Red Hat CEO: We're "tough to do business with"
News Red Hat has done very well so far with a business model of making community-developed software enterprise-ready, but there is still a lot more that could be achieved, said Whitehurst. For open source to provide the value... [20 Jun 2008]
Legal Eye: Blogging cowboys ride the Wild Web
Comment There remains a lack of consensus or clarity among a burgeoning blogging community on the way forward. With the explosion in user-generated content, many bloggers and posters seem to think they can... [05 Jun 2008]
Firefox 3 - World Record attempt in the making?
News Mozilla is encouraging its community of more than 175 million users to sign up on the Spread Firefox marketing site to receive Firefox 3 on the day of its release, to host download parties, and to put... [30 May 2008]
Microsoft hits back at Vista security critics
News However, recent research conducted with statistics from over 1.4 million computers within the ThreatFire community has shown that Windows Vista is more susceptible to malware than the eight-year-old Windows 2000... [16 May 2008]
IT education organisation takes Microsoft grumbles to EC
News The announcement has already drawn praise from some of the same players in the open source community who, little more than a year ago, criticised Becta for being too closely aligned with Microsoft. One of the open-source... [14 May 2008]
Java - 100 per cent open source by end of this year
News The process of clearing encumbrances is complex, and has involved close collaboration between Sun engineers and members of the Free Java community including developers working on GNU... [28 Apr 2008]
Open source: 'World's largest software company'
News The open source community's programmer-hours, if added up, would place it as the largest software employer in the world, the study said. Open source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many... [22 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Brown added that Microsoft has probably realised there may be considerable commercial advantages to becoming a good citizen in the standards community. Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech... [21 Apr 2008]
Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods
News Our objective is to ensure the internet continues to be a vibrant and thriving community, where new developments can contribute greatly to user experience and safety. Phorm - whose... [11 Apr 2008]
Google invites developers to play on the Bigtable
News While Google is keen to drive the wider usage of the internet as an application platform, opinions from the web-development community itself appear to suggest a note of caution before moving forward into this area of... [09 Apr 2008]
