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Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News The research found that open-source users are avoiding replacing existing proprietary systems because of the cost of migration and technical challenges in changing from proprietary SQL extensions and application programming interfaces. [24 Jul 2008]
Does open source pose a security risk?
News The study is likely to reopen the debate around the relative security of proprietary and open-source software. Independent software vendors (ISVs) selling proprietary software have claimed the open-source development process exposes open-source... [22 Jul 2008]
Using PostgreSQL and Solaris 10 to Improve Data Warehouse Performance
White Paper The challenge was to migrate from proprietary to open-source database to control costs and establish a stable operating system platform for open-source database application. As a solution OmniTI deployed a flexible, open-source PostgreSQL database... [05 Jul 2008]
Embedded Linux - Ready for Real-Time
White Paper Developers are choosing Linux over traditional proprietary RTOS products for its superior reliability, for its cost effectiveness, and for its open source and standard APIs. Embedded Linux is upsetting the established order in the development tools... [03 Jul 2008]
Breaking the Chains - Using LinuxBIOS to Liberate Embedded x86 Processors
White Paper LinuxBIOS is an open source solution that replaces the proprietary BIOS ROMs with a light-weight loader. While x86 processors are an attractive option for embedded designs, many embedded developers avoid them because x86-based systems remain... [02 Jul 2008]
Open source to 'blow mobiles open'
News Open source software will mean the end of proprietary phone and software bundles, and create universal compatibility and lower the cost of handsets within three years, according to analyst firm S2 Intelligence. [30 Jun 2008]
Google Android facing a fragmented future?
News People have been predicting the success of open source for some time [but] fragmentation is easy, and integration is hard. Wood went on to list the extra costs of mobile open source: the costs of debugging; the loss of intellectual property through... [13 Jun 2008]
Nokia: Open source needs a lesson in business
News Open-source developers targeting the mobile space need to learn business rules including digital rights management, Nokia's software chief has claimed. Speaking at the Handsets World conference in Berlin on Tuesday, Dr Ari Jaaksi told delegates... [12 Jun 2008]
Live Webcast: Open or Closed? Why you need a strategy for open source in your organization
White Paper There is a big contrast between open source and the proprietary technology of the past. Open source is the answer - much faster time to value, all the benefits of an on-demand business model, and speed of innovation. [25 May 2008]
Open source: UK dragging its heels
News Despite the UK's poor record, however, open-source adoption is continuing to accelerate, Taylor said, quoting a Standish Group report that claimed proprietary vendors are losing £30bn per year to open source. [15 May 2008]
LiMo targets the business mobile
News Leach said: "For LiMo it is a validation of its collaborative-development model and the [intellectual property] safe harbour that it creates, allowing proprietary and open-source software to co-exist within a single platform. [15 May 2008]
Dell, HP, Lenovo openly pledge Linux driver support
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]
Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…
Comment If it becomes too difficult to have XP, the best option becomes open source. Most of my stuff is open source so going all the way might be the easy option. BlackBerrys are expensive proprietary devices for magpies to show off at the golf club. [01 May 2008]
Open source: 'World's largest software company'
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]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
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]
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