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Does open source pose a security risk?
News Independent software vendors (ISVs) selling proprietary software have claimed the open-source development process exposes open-source software to greater security risks, while open-source developers argue that the openness of the process allows... [22 Jul 2008]
3 jumps on board Symbian Foundation
News Also joining is the semiconductor manufacturer Marvell, as well as services and software vendors Aplix, EB, EMCC Software, Sasken and TietoEnator. The Foundation is a Nokia-led consortium that was recently established to grow and open-source... [11 Jul 2008]
Open-Source Software Kit and Community Portal Advance Web Accessibility
White Paper Although various vendors offer SharePoint accessibility solutions, the custom development involved can result in high costs. Microsoft partnered with HiSoftware, a leading provider of software solutions that help organizations maintain compliance... [08 Jul 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 However, the head of LiMo, Morgan Gillis, claimed the third quarter of this year could also see the addition of two major open-source enterprise vendors. Leach said: "For LiMo it is a validation of its collaborative-development model and the... [15 May 2008]
Skype drops open-source appeal
News The licence requires vendors to ship source code with any open-source product but Skype's WSKP100 phone was sold without giving users access to the source code, according to a case brought by gpl-violations.org, a group policing open-source... [12 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]
Open source key to SaaS future
News Robert DeSisto, analyst at Gartner, said as more SaaS vendors use open source in their product line, software acquisition costs should be reduced. Open source will make up at least 30 per cent of each individual SaaS application provided by vendors... [16 Apr 2008]
Virtualisation: IT managers warned of security challenges
News Crosby said that, in general, virtualisation reduced the number of points of entry into operating systems but that vendors relying on kernel access to implement security would run into difficulties. IT managers should put in place systems to verify... [16 Apr 2008]
Hosting Data Center Networking With Vyatta
White Paper While proprietary networking equipment vendors have created discrete hardware product categories and price points based on arbitrary performance segmentation, open networking systems are proving that a single system can be continually upgraded to... [11 Apr 2008]
Taridium Case Study: T4G
White Paper Much time was spent researching solutions from vendors such as Fonality, Switchvox, and Digium's Asterisk Business Edition. Looking at an open source solution was a logical next step. Taridium's ipbx enterprise VoIP platform offered T4G all the... [27 Mar 2008]
PA spreads the news on open source
Case Study Berman said: "One of the things we've found in the past with proprietary systems is our market moves faster than the vendors often are prepared to move at, and we wanted the flexibility to be able to add additional metadata or classifications as... [20 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.02.08
Round-Up In a deafening cacophony of ringtones that could be heard from outer space (and underwater), handset vendors, mobile operators, developers and journalists descended on Barcelona for a state of the nation address this week at the Mobile World... [15 Feb 2008]
Apple, open source and SaaS tipped to be tech future
News They provide significant opportunities for vendors and users to lower their total cost of ownership and increase returns on investment. Also of note for Microsoft watchers, Gartner predicts within five years 80 per cent of commercial software will... [01 Feb 2008]
First iPhone Trojan reported
News The first iPhone Trojan has been seen in the wild, according to security vendors. Erica's Utilities are a collection of command-line utilities for the iPhone, according to security vendor Symantec, which warned that the Trojan also overwrites... [09 Jan 2008]
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