Open source
RSS Open sourceThe Core of Apple: open source spirit to guide the Mac OS
Comment Apple is proving that operating systems can be open source without losing control of the kernel and that Microsoft does have part to play in the market - even if it causes ripples among the faithful.... [27 Sep 2000]
Open source rival takes on Google Maps
News Volunteer "citizen cartographers" are aiming to take on the likes of Google Maps and Ordnance Survey by creating a free open source wiki-style map of the planet. I could easily see OS making use of... [13 Nov 2006]
Open source ID management plan on the cards
News IBM and Novell are expected to announce an open source response to Microsoft's forthcoming InfoCard identity management technology. The companies plan to contribute to an open... [27 Feb 2006]
Log4plsql: Open-Source Tool for PL/SQL Logging
White Paper This paper explains the usefulness of PL/SQL logging and introduces the open-source Log4plsql tool - an extension of the popular Apache Log4j Java logging project - which offers all the tools and methods... [13 Oct 2006]
Open Source: What Is the Total Cost of Ownership?
White Paper Too many companies embrace and implement open source technologies without fully understanding the costs that go along with deploying and maintaining open source.... [14 May 2009]
Open Source BI Solutions: A Low TCO Prospect
White Paper Open Source based BI solutions reduce the cost of BI programs by providing options of using best available components from different OS providers in the existing BI infrastructure, or using it for... [22 Apr 2009]
WebLogic Suite Vs. Open Source Application Servers: The True Picture
White Paper One potential source of cost savings is the use of open-source technologies for non-mission-critical applications, which at first glance saves money by eliminating up-front software... [12 Jul 2009]
Open source shunned by UK government
News The UK government has turned its back on open source technology in its public key infrastructure (PKI) trials. However, Netproject, an organisation which promotes open... [21 Feb 2002]
Open Source Report: 2008
White Paper Findings are based on analysis of over 55 million lines of code on a recurring basis from more than 250 open source projects, representing 14,238 individual project analysis runs for a total of nearly 10... [10 Jul 2009]
The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond
White Paper The open source process of production and innovation seems very unlike what most economists expect. In an open source project, however, a body of original material is... [18 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Open source licences
Cheat Sheet Open source licences.much of a muchness? This means the OSI believes these licences fulfil its definition of open source and any software using them can call itself 'OSI... [20 Nov 2006]
Open source advocates bed down on the cloud
News Open-source developers are flocking to cloud services, with 40 per cent planning to provide their applications as web services using cloud providers such as Google's App Engine and Amazon's Elastic... [22 Jan 2009]
Open-source vs proprietary security: 'Too close to call'
News Which software model is more secure - open source or proprietary? The fact that open-source code is audited by many eyes is an advantage in finding security holes, but... [15 Nov 2004]
Open Source Software: A Source of Possibilities for Software Engineering Education and Empirical Software Engineering
White Paper Open source projects are an interesting source for software engineering education and research. By participating in open source projects students can... [02 Jan 2009]
Open source ID projects cosy up to Microsoft
News The Higgins and Bandit open source projects are claiming a milestone in the development of open source identity services with a link to a new Microsoft identity system.... [29 Jan 2007]
