it director software testing open source

CIO Essentials: Open source, green tech, women in IT

News Rolling out these types of AIR-based apps means hours of mind-numbing testing and re-jigging of code because of huge inconsistencies between Safari, Mozilla, IE etc. It's a good job the pharmaceutical industry did not treat open source penicillin... [19 Jun 2007]

Microsoft, Novell talk up technicalities

News The deal is also meant to shield joint customers from any potential legal liabilities of using open source software. The companies will be announcing more details on a planned interoperability lab which will do regular testing to ensure new... [13 Feb 2007]

Open source alliance forged over Linux standards

News But the standardisation effort is moving ahead - most recently with work being done in Russia to build certification testing software - and customers will begin requiring LSB compatibility "fairly soon", Zemlin said. [22 Jan 2007]

Microsoft reaches out to Firefox lovers

News Sam Ramji, director of Microsoft's open source software lab, posted an open invitation to work with Microsoft on a Mozilla development discussion group on Monday. Testing by silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK found it also runs well in Vista beta 2... [22 Aug 2006]

Photos: The tech behind the Olympic Games

Photo It takes double the amount of testing - 100,000 man hours - and costs 20 per cent more than a similar scale business project would. For the Turin games there are 450 Intel-based servers and Unix boxes, 4,700 PCs, 700 printers, 1,000 commentator... [02 Dec 2005]

Open source nuclear bunker guards finance data

News The Bunker's success partly relies on its focus on open source software. And real business continuity is about much more than IT, he says: "What is critical is end-to-end testing of business continuity of which IT disaster recovery is a small part. [25 Oct 2005]

Mozilla to release Firefox update to fix flaws

News The testing process is to make sure the updates don't introduce any compatibility problems, he said. The latest problem occurs only in the beta release, which is meant for testing only and typically has bugs. [15 Sep 2005]

Government IT spending to come under scrutiny

News Microsoft has already found itself under pressure from public bodies such as the NHS; in December, the organisation announced it was testing Sun Microsystems' Java Desktop in the hope that the Linux-based system could provide a cheaper alternative... [09 Feb 2004]

Half of small firms want to ditch Windows for Linux

News One in four small companies are testing Linux, and half of them hope to use it as their core operating system in place of Windows, according to a survey by IBM. The companies surveyed believe the open-source operating system will not only save them... [08 Dec 2003]

Chaos reigns in e-government roll-out

News Despite a recent European Commission working paper that heralded a new age of open source for government, more than 95 per cent of councils are still choosing proprietary software over an open source alternative, according to research by IT... [31 Jul 2003]

Sun delivers all-in-one small-biz Linux package

News The server is part of Sun's attempt to use its relatively recently acquired open source software, and Intel-based hardware, to appeal to entry level businesses on a tight budget. You can already get these products separately, but we have pulled it... [17 Mar 2003]

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