proprietary software
UK spam mountain just got bigger
News We are an active member of the Messaging Anti-abuse Working Group and deploy a mixture of proprietary and third party anti-spam filtering software, which we provide free to all our customers. The amount of spam stuffed into UK inboxes has... [12 Aug 2008]
Oracle adds to SAP lawsuit allegations
News Oracle upped the ante in its lawsuit against rival SAP this week, claiming in an amended complaint that SAP's CEO and other top executives were aware of alleged illegal downloading of proprietary software and documents before, during and after its... [30 Jul 2008]
Yahoo!, HP, Intel meet in the cloud
News s commitment to cloud computing stems from its involvement in the Apache Hadoop project, an open-source project for large-scale data processing, similar to Google's proprietary MapReduce software. HP, Intel and Yahoo! [30 Jul 2008]
Credit crunch prompts open source adoption
News The sluggish economy is contributing to commercial open-source sales, but customers still rank interoperability with proprietary software and vendor viability among their top concerns, according to a survey from the Open Solutions Alliance. [29 Jul 2008]
SAP: Time's up for TomorrowNow
News TomorrowNow hit controversy in 2007 when Oracle alleged SAP had hacked into Oracle's customer support centre to gain copies of its proprietary software code. SAP admitted TomorrowNow had made inappropriate and unacceptable downloads of Oracle... [22 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]
From Paper Nightmare to Paperless Archive
White Paper Office employees needed extensive training to use the system, the software required consultants to debug, and the scanner was slow and jammed repeatedly. The Alchemy database required a system administrator on staff, and the Alchemy database... [18 Jul 2008]
Largest U.S. Integrated Direct Marketer of Consumer Electronics Maintains Hundreds of Customized Enterprise Applications With BMC Application Problem Resolution
White Paper The company needed to streamline integration, migration, upgrades, and general problem resolution for an exceptionally complex, proprietary, 250-application enterprise system. Crutchfield Corporation is the nation's first integrated marketer of... [11 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone - the business perspective
News So despite all Apple's enterprise-focused hype - and even if businesses switch to O2 - there are still corporate software barriers to iPhone adoption. Given time, however, as more companies push out iPhone support - and app-makers get busy with the... [10 Jul 2008]
Comparing Secure Remote Access Options: IPSec VPNs Vs. SSL VPNs
White Paper It requires compatible hardware or software, almost always from a single vendor, on both ends of the tunnel. As companies broadened their uses to include other remote access needs, proprietary extensions had to be added to the IPSec standard or to... [10 Jul 2008]
The Embedded Linux Revolution and The Innovator’s Advantage
White Paper The advantages Linux offers relative to traditional proprietary embedded software solutions are tremendous. Embedded Linux is revolutionizing the embedded systems software market. These advantages translate to significant savings in total cost of... [03 Jul 2008]
Understanding Open Source CRM
White Paper Open source software has rapidly established itself as a major competitor to proprietary software in the operating systems and infrastructure software domain. It is now establishing itself as a viable alternative in the business software domain as... [03 Jul 2008]
Open Source Software: Can Everyone Benefit From the New Emerging Gift Economy?
White Paper This paper seeks to measure the practicality of open source alternatives to common proprietary software through an experiment carried out on a small community of students. The experiment is used as a platform on which open source paradigms are... [03 Jul 2008]
Cyclades Corporation: TS1000 and TS2000 Console Access/Terminal Servers
White Paper Replacing proprietary software with Linux in existing embedded platform was an old dream of Cyclades Corporation. MontaVista Linux and MontaVista professional services allowed them move forward with the project, with confidence, and introduced... [03 Jul 2008]
Revize Web Content Management System: The Common Sense Approach to Content Management - Informational Brief
White Paper The Revize Web Content Management System is a standards-based, open architecture software product without any proprietary restrictions. Revize uses leading industry technologies to avoid integration problems with existing systems and comes complete... [03 Jul 2008]
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