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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]
whitepaper This software, built on the open source Eclipse platform, helps data architects to model, discover, map, and analyze data across multiple information sources, automating information integration in complex environments.
[14 May 2008]
whitepaper Upon its inception, Overstock.com made the decision to build its Web-based business on open source software - mainly SUSE Linux, now distributed by Novell. However, the company soon found that the Windows platform offered significant benefits over...
[14 May 2008]
whitepaper The company needed a new infrastructure and considered both Microsoft and open-source solutions. A mix of older technology began to hinder business users and technical staff at AMC Entertainment. AMC attended several Microsoft Technology Center...
[14 May 2008]
whitepaper Most steps of this paper assume the use of a shell session (ssh) and utilize putty, an open source product, which may be downloaded free off the Internet and run on MS Windows. In this paper users can become better acquainted with using SuSE Linux...
[14 May 2008]
whitepaper Some of these ideas have turned into open source projects, some have been issued as commercial projects, and some have been abandoned. With the advent of agile frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, application development has never been easier or more...
[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]
Comment The Naked CIO: Is open source dead? However, a lack of transparency about charges has created an increased reliance on revenue from this source, ultimately leading to the court case. The court case merely created the tipping point for a process...
[12 May 2008]
Comment The Naked CIO: Is open source dead? They're wrong, says the Naked CIO. Proper process can give organisations an edge. I remember once talking to some university students about innovation. One student put it to me that when it comes to change...
[12 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]
Comment The Naked CIO: Is open source dead? Since so many people are talking about cloud computing, it really wouldn't hurt to know what it is. Step forward David Tebbutt of Freeform Dynamics with some answers.
[09 May 2008]
Comment He dropped one here: "Having tried to manage open source environments, the degree to which rather eccentric - apologies for the generalisation - open source custodians and Unix engineers customise their environments creates extremely bulky systems...
[08 May 2008]
Comment Check out the Naked CIO who this week is giving a controversial view of open source software. I had a fascinating if rather rushed 46 hours in Beijing recently, getting a sneak preview of the 2008 Olympic venues - and meeting the IT team tasked...
[08 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]
Comment Despite grandiose claims for open source software, the truth about it has been evident for some time. As a CIO with a background in mixed environments - and who still manages one - I can say with certainty that maintaining and developing in a...
[06 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]
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. Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this week, with silicon.com readers undecided...
[01 May 2008]
whitepaper Is it risky to trust mission-critical infrastructure to open source software? Why should we pay an open source vendor when open source is supposed to be free? Will a shift to open source add complexity to our IT infrastructure?
[30 Apr 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]
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