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News The UK is lagging in the use of open source, even though it is now established as the best way to produce and consume software, according to speakers at the Open Source Forum, sponsored by Red Hat and its partners, in London.
[15 May 2008]
News However, the head of LiMo, Morgan Gillis, claimed the third quarter of this year could also see the addition of two major open-source enterprise vendors. Leach said: "For LiMo it is a validation of its collaborative-development model and the...
[15 May 2008]
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 community's main criticisms...
[14 May 2008]
News Hore added: "We've expanded our use of open source because it's good and reliable and low cost and if something works we expand and do more with it. With less than 100 days remaining before the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, work on the IT...
[13 May 2008]
News Skype has abandoned its efforts to avoid complying with an open-source licence that requires it to provide source code with Linux-based VoIP phones. The licence requires vendors to ship source code with any open-source product but Skype's WSKP100...
[12 May 2008]
News Citing an unnamed source, the report said there are no active discussions between the two companies. The newspaper reported on its website that Microsoft's bankers put out subtle signals to Facebook, the social networking site, to see if it would...
[08 May 2008]
News Dell, HP and Lenovo have promised to push chipset vendors to make open-source drivers for Linux. Representatives from Dell, HP and Lenovo made the commitment at a Linux Foundation conference last week, promising to include wording in their hardware...
[02 May 2008]
News The UKUUG has been in existence for 32 years and is, according to Mark Taylor, the head of the Open Source Consortium, a "venerable organisation of men with long grey beards". The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of...
[02 May 2008]
News would use Google's more profitable search advertising platform to make more money for itself, said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity. A deal would be no different from partnerships Google has with other web companies including Time...
[29 Apr 2008]
News Sun is to open source the last closed-source parts of Java, a move that should make it possible to fully integrate the software into Linux distributions. He said: "Work still needs to be done to offer the Java sound engine and SNMP code via open...
[28 Apr 2008]
News Open source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating into the annual revenues of proprietary software vendors by $60bn per year, according to research.
[22 Apr 2008]
News In future, Brown hopes to repeat the test to see if the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, conforms with the Open Source Initiative version of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) document standard - ISO/IEC 26300.
[21 Apr 2008]
News Anyone who has read anything about open source for any length of time understands Ubuntu's commitment to the desktop, and its dominance of that portion of the Linux market. Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop...
[21 Apr 2008]
News Open source software will be key to the adoption of software as a service (SaaS) over the next few years to keep costs down and make sharing of applications easier. By 2010, around 90 per cent of SaaS providers will be using open source within...
[16 Apr 2008]
News IT managers should put in place systems to verify that virtual appliances haven't been modified, including systems that check open-source virtual Just Enough Operating Systems (JEOS) and Microsoft's Hyper-V appliance.
[16 Apr 2008]
News The plenary session was marked by protests outside, largely carried out by delegates from a nearby open-source conference. The International Organization for Standardization has called for "personal attacks" to cease in the debate surrounding...
[15 Apr 2008]
News By 2012, 80 per cent or more of all commercial software will include elements of open-source technology. They are very open to trying out new technology," he said. Within two years, the brand and model of the enterprise laptop could be decided by...
[14 Apr 2008]
News Experian is embracing open source software as a major part of its tech strategy in the future. The company previously shied away from open source due to concerns about support and security but the acquisition of several companies already using the...
[11 Apr 2008]
News In a few years' time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to Gartner; even though IT managers may be unaware of it, and prefer to talk about fashions such as software as a service (SaaS).
[07 Apr 2008]
News s board is expected to discuss Ballmer's letter next week, as well as provide a briefing on how talks between the two companies went last week, one source said. A source said: "We could enter formal talks and they might increase the bid, or they...
[07 Apr 2008]
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