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Open source software gets academic boost
News The UK's academic sector is about to get an open source software awakening from its central contract negotiating unit. Mark Summerfield, software team manager at the Combined Higher Education Software Team (Chest) - the body responsible for... [07 Dec 1998]
Open Source Software Maintenance Process Framework
White Paper The Open Source software maintenance process is formal even anyone can submit modifications or defect reports to Open Source software projects. To identify the Open Source maintenance process two well known Open Source projects Apache HTTP server... [07 Mar 2006]
Open Source Software: Recent Developments and Public Policy Implications
White Paper "Open source" software has become a topic of great interest in the press and among policymakers. Open source software - both as a type of software and as a software development and licensing model - is an emerging business reality that needs to be... [30 Aug 2005]
Open-Source Software in the Middleware Market: It's All About Choice
White Paper The White Paper is based on publicly available IDC demand- and supply-side survey findings about ASSP software, especially as they relate to the Linux operating environment and other open-source software. [08 Dec 2004]
Open-Source Software in Digital Management in the Public Sector
White Paper This white paper contains an economic analysis of open-source software and analyzes the extended of use open-source software. It also presents a series of suggestions as to how the public sector can further the use of open-source software. [20 Aug 2004]
"Infectious" Open Source Software: Spreading Incentives or Promoting Resistance?
White Paper Some free or open source software infects other software with its licensing terms. Popular open source software, including the GNU/Linux operating system, uses a license with this feature. This paper assesses the efficacy of broad infectious... [18 Apr 2007]
Open Source Software Development: A Case Study of FreeBSD
White Paper A common claim is that open source software development produces higher quality software at lower cost than traditional commercial development. The goal of this study was to better understand the nature of Open Source software development, and to... [07 Mar 2006]
Open Source Software Project Management
White Paper In this paper, the essential characteristics of software development projects in the open source environment are described. These open source projects, like typical commercial software projects, make extensive use of project management techniques. [21 Apr 2006]
Open Source Software: Guidance on Implementing UK Government Policy
White Paper The best open source is demonstrably at least as good as, or better than, proprietary software by the only real test - it is in widespread operational use in the real world, particularly in infrastructure deployments such as operating systems and... [29 Apr 2005]
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]
Open Source Software Position Briefing
White Paper The Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the development and implementation of open-source software solutions within Federal, state and municipal government agencies and academic entities. [30 Aug 2005]
Re:Viewing 2004: Software and open source
News It offers both open source and proprietary software development tools to customers - but for a price, rented as 'software as a service'. Open source played an increasingly far-reaching role in the commercial software industry. [21 Dec 2004]
Open Source Strategies for Software Developers
White Paper The benefits associated with open source software can be realized as long as there is a plan to mitigate any risks that are part of using open source products. The ubiquity of open source software is increasing. [09 Mar 2006]
Open Source Software: Leveraging Software Quality in the Industrial Context
White Paper While traditional development methods were not able to provide a cure, Open Source Software (OSS) seems to be an effective approach to reduce product cycle-times and decrease development costs. For years, the software industry has been suffering... [20 Apr 2006]
Open Source Software - Is It Real Treatment for Public Sector's Software Needs?
White Paper Open source software history takes as long as computer program history. Programmers at the beginning of computing used to programming for free software model and history now just reached back to (the root) community model. [03 Jul 2008]
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