Dell prompted into action over open source
ZDNet UK - UK
"It's exciting to see the IdeaStorm community's interest in open source solutions like Linux and OpenOffice. We are listening, and as a result, ...
Nat: "Is 'open source' now completely meaningless?"
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Nat Torkington is trying to come up with the agenda for OSCON, and has discovered that the minute one steps out of the world of community open source to ...
Open Source at Carnegie Mellon
O'Reilly Radar - Sebastopol,CA,USA
Carnegie Mellon West has just launched a "Software Management" Masters degree that integrates open source technology throughout the program and includes a ...
UK launches open-source policy group
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
A new UK think tank launched on Monday will analyze how open-source software can be used in government and the private sector. The National Open Center, ...
Thomson Learning Adopts Sakai Open Source Collaboration and ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
26 -- Thomson Learning, one of the largest academic publishers in higher education, has adopted the Sakai open source collaboration and learning environment ...
Solid Contributes New Database Benchmark Suite to Open Source ...
GISuser.com (press release) - Frederick,MD,USA
Now, Solid has contributed the valuable benchmark suite as an open source tool, reflecting Solid's commitment to the open source market. ...
Paving open source's road to verticals
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Best of the blogs: Open source just trimmed its path toward verticals with a deal between McKesson and Red Hat to create an end-to-end healthcare solution. ...
Open source think tank opens doors
Register - London,England,UK
The National Open Centre, which its backers hope will make for better working relationships between the open source community and government, business, ...
Palamida and Innoopract To Offer Open Source Solution For Eclipse
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA
Intalio,the Open Source BPMS Company announced the donation of its trailblazing BPMN process modeler to the Eclipse Foundation. ...
Open Source Alliance makes it debut
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
The Open Source Alliance (OSA), a nonprofit vendor-neutral consortium, dedicated to driving the adoption of comprehensive open source business solutions, ...
Cuba goes open source
iT News - Australia
He also highlighted a quote from Bill Gates, who described open source enthusiasts as "some new modern-day sort of communists", pointing out that this would ...
Open Access and Open Source-different, but Valuable
Technocrat.net - Boston,MA,USA
The open source model is also complimentary to the open access model, yet each are uniquely different and valuable in their own right. ...
'Open source body to launch'
BCS - Swindon,UK
The National Open Centre (NOC) will officially launch on February 26th, uniting various members of the European open source community including ...
Palm and Tolven Bring Open Source Electronic Patient Health ...
Genetic Engineering News (press release) - New Rochelle,NY,USA
Innovations in the delivery of healthcare information technology solutions, such as offering open source ePHR on mobile devices, pave the way for ...
Open Source Guru Bashes Red Hat's Fedora
TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA
The influential developer and cofounder of the Open Source Initiative used a popular Linux mailing list as his platform this week to slam Fedora, ...
UPDATE: Cisco not releasing NAC client as open-source code
LinuxWorld.com - Montvale,NJ,USA
Cisco says it is not releasing its NAC client software code to the open source community, nor does the company have plans to exit the endpoint security ...
Ten Leading Open Source Innovators
IT Management - Darien,CT,USA
It'sa contentious time for the open-source community. Microsoft has partnered with Novell, Oracle is angling for Red Hat's customer base, while Linux is ...
UIQ: to open or to open source?
Ovum - London,England,UK
The move to open source was in this case motivated to stimulate demand and demonstrate willingness to set and adopt standards in a currently highly ...
Open Source Abuse or Misunderstanding in China?
ZDNet Asia - Asia
The easiest business practice to accept, but the one most quick to fail in the field of Open Source software is to "Support" someone else's innovation. ...
Open-source software marries system management, virtualization
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
OpenQRM can integrate with the monitoring technology of the customer's choice -- the open-source Nagios program, for instance -- "and leverage the ...
Microsoft Still Faces Pressure From Euro Open Source Firms
LinuxInsider.com - Encino,CA,USA
Microsoft still faces pressure in Europe from open source software companies that want to use its technology, said Matt Rosoff, an analyst for Directions on ...
Open-Xchange Deploys Largest Open Source Software Customer Win in ...
webhostdir.com - Bournemouth,Dorset,UK
Open-Xchange Inc., the leading provider of open source collaboration software, announced today that it has signed a partnership with 1&1 Internet, ...
Open Source Business Solutions, Develops Alliance, to Foster ...
TheHostingNews.com (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), will work with open source ISVs, systems integrators, and the broader open source community. ...
The Open Source
CIO - Framingham,MA,USA
A number of interesting events have happened this week in the heady whirl that is open source that I thought deserved further examination; especially since ...
Opening up an open-source roadblock
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
The open-source community is being roiled by the recent deal between Microsoft and Novell, especially by their covenant not to sue each other's customers ...
Open Source Reporting Imagining a Future Tense for Newsapapers
MediaShift - CA,USA
by Mark Glaser, 3:39PM. It's easy to criticize the humble newspaper as being outmoded, out of style and out of business options. What's far more difficult ...
Cisco Backtracks on Open Source Promise
PC World - USA
After promising to turn the client software for its CTA (Cisco Trust Agent) into an open-source application, Bob Gleichauf, CTO of Cisco's Security ...
LinuxAsia 2007: Open-source event puts interoperability first
Express Computers - Bombay,India
This year's event focussed on interoperability, the commercialisation of Open Source Software (OSS) technologies and the acceptance of OSS when it comes to ...
Open-source Alfresco adopts the GPL
ZDNet UK - UK
Alfresco, a start-up that commercialises open-source software for helping customers keep track of their digital documents, has adopted the General Public ...
MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain
Wired News - USA
Open-source, royalty-free options, such as Ogg Vorbis, remain dark horse competitors. But none have displaced MP3, the first and most widely adopted format ...
:.Unisys in Open Solutions Alliance
Indiaoutsourcewatch.com - Kolkata,West Bengal,India
Business solutions based on open source software can offer enterprises significant advantages, including lower cost and higher code quality, over solutions ...
Preinstalled Open Source: The Next OS Battleground?
TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA
The consumer response to Dell's request for product suggestions showed a large interest in PCs preloaded with open source operating systems and applications ...
Sony Ericsson offers UIQ shares, analyst suggests to open source ...
Unofficial Club Sony Ericsson - Madrid,Spain
... sacrificing their own differentiation. A move to open source by UIQ would also put Nokia under pressure to re-evaluate S60 software licences and fees.
New open-source, user-friendly drug combination against malaria ...
Horizon International (press release) - New Haven,CT,USA
MSF will start using the fixed dose combinations and replace the use of separate tablets in all of its projects where artesunate and amodiaquine is ...
Using open source to integrate Java into .NET apps
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
How can I integrate my existing Java library into a Java software library from aC# .Net program? The IKVM.Net software tools provide an implementation of ...
No Sweat: Open Source Apparel
WorldChanging - USA
No Sweat bills itself as the first "open source" apparel manufacturer, meaning that they openly expose and share what's behind their product, ...
The Future of Open Source Java
NewsForge - Fremont,CA,USA
This article takes a look at what's ahead for Java in Open Source and predicts what is coming for the Java platform."
Spending on open source support services in Canada to soar
ITBusiness.ca - Canada
The market for open source support services is going to boom over the next five years, according to a recent Gartner survey. ...
South African Government Adopts Open Source Policy
TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA
South Africa announced Thursday its plan to use open source software on government-run computer systems. Officials said the strategy will lower costs an ...
Women in open source
NewsForge - Fremont,CA,USA
Anonymous Reader writes "Today the Southern California Linux Exposition's fifth iteration kicked off with all-day mini-conferences on free and open source ...
Cabinet goes for open source software
Business Day - Johannesburg,South Africa
THE cabinet has reconfirmed a commitment to use more free and open source software in government departments to slash its technology running costs and ...
Open Source Phone on the Way
Slashdot - USA
prostoalex writes "Dr. Dobb's Journal reports on GPE Palmtop Environment's aim to create a full stack of open source software for mobile phones. ...
Open Source Developer Warns of Adobe
WebProNews - Lexington,KY,USA
None of the apps demonstrated any open source thinking on behalf of the Adobe teams. It sure would be nice for Adobe to think about that. ...
More than 20 Software Company CEOs Attending Second Annual Open ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
8 /PRNewswire/ -- Organizers of Open Source Think Tank 2007: The Future of Commercial Open Source, today announced that more than 20 CEOs of software ...
Linux Supporters Celebrate World's First Mainboard with Open ...
X-bit Labs - Los Angeles,CA,USA
"This is a huge victory in the quest for a completely free and open-source general-purpose computer that enables users to have full control over their own ...
How Novell Saved Millions With Open Source
InternetNews.com - USA
NEW YORK -- How much money can a large enterprise save by migrating to open source from proprietary? In Novell's case, it's millions of dollars. ...
Medicity Announces Open Source Content Management Strategy
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Medicity's portal offering, called ProAccess CMS, combines the Company's healthcare expertise with open source technology to help organizations address the ...
Sun pairs Unix with open-source stack
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Featured in Sun's rollout on Tuesday are versions of the open-source AMP components optimized for the Solaris 10 OS plus Sun developer tools. ...
GroundWork Open Source Secures $12.5 Million
Computing News - Minsk,Belarus
GroundWork Open Source has secured $12.5 million in its third round of venture capital financing. The Series C round includes new investors JAFCO Ventures, ...
OpenVZ Delivers Live Migration Capability In Latest Open Source ...
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA
Hyperic, pioneer in multi-platform, open source systems management, announced today the availability of the industry?s first virtualization management ...
TAPR introduces open source hardware license, OSI skeptical
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
The Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (TAPR) organization is sponsoring a new open source license intended for hardware components. ...
Asian countries begin switching to open source software
Antara - Antara,Indonesia
Denpasar (ANTARA News) - Asian countries have started switching from proprietary software like Microsoft to open source software, it was reported here ...
Motorola Initiates Industry-wide Project to Create Open Source ...
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA
28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola, Inc. today announced it is initiating a new open source project to develop a complete high availability operating ...
Find the open source survey, Save the doctor
NewsForge - Fremont,CA,USA
BryanSD writes "Here is your chance to help out the academic scholars figure out what open source is all about. A PhD candidate at Deakin University ...
Victorian Government Looks to Open Source
IDM.net.au - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia
March 1, 2007: A number of departments within the Victorian government are reportedly moving away from proprietary software and deploying open source ...
IBM mixes free and open source infrastructure software
Ovum - London,England,UK
Towards the end of last week IBM announced an expansion of the partner initiative launched last year aimed at those using its open source application server ...
Wikia launch three new open source magazines
Journalism.co.uk - Brighton,East Sussex,UK
Wikia has launched three open source magazine-style wikis to cover entertainment, local US communities and politics. The new sites are part of Wikia's drive ...
Has open source lost its halo?
Java World - USA
Is open source still a grassroots social movement made up of idealistic underdogs trying to revolutionize an amoral industry? Or has it become a cloak used ...
NIST recertifies open source encryption module
GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA
OpenSSL once again is compliant with Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 Level 1 standard, according to the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) ...
Pentaho Adds MPP to Open Source ETL Tool
Computer Business Review - UK
Open source upstart Pentaho Corp has updated the extract, transform and load component of its business intelligence suite to provide greater scalability and ...
EC rebuffs Microsoft over open-source report
ZDNet UK - UK
The European Commission has resisted efforts by Microsoft to make it abandon its report into open-source software, it was revealed this week. ...
Ballmer: Novell deal proves open source needs to 'respect IP rights'
NewsForge - Fremont,CA,USA
By Anonymous Reader on 2007.02.18 20:37 (#132401). Did they think MS was giving them hundreds of millions of dollars in support contracts b/c they thought ...
Big Blue Wants Partners to Use Open Source Products
IT Business Edge - Louisville,KY,USA
Big Blue wants more of its partners to use its free, open source applications, and is willing to offer a raft of free services to persuade them to do so. ...
Optwize tightens open source BI partnerships
Computer Business Review - UK
Optwize Inc, a specialist provider of open source business intelligence services, has deepened its ties to open source database and BI software firms. ...
Health Care Software System, Subject of Lawsuit, Becomes Open Source
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
The OpenVista posting as open source code allows hospitals and health care organizations "to leverage the billions of dollars invested in the VA's Vista ...
GroundWork ships new open source IT management suite
IT Week - London,UK
IT management software specialist GroundWork Open Source will today begin shipping the latest version of its systems and network management suite GroundWork ...
UK government ignores open-source potential
Computing - London,UK
The UK government is biased against the use of open-source technology, a situation that could limit the computing skills of the future workforce, ...
IBM's Wide Open Source Services
IT Business Edge - Louisville,KY,USA
The company is giving its partners access to the tools they need to get their open source/open standard products to the market fast, says IBM's director of ...
Open Source Terraforming
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies - Hartford,CT,USA
This concept has precedent: it already works in the world of software, with the "free software" or "open source" movement. A multitude of developers, ...
Getting Over the Love-Hate Dynamic With Open Standards
TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA
The dilemma facing SIP and open source is that customers must build a network to serve multiple objectives -- only some of which are addressed by open ...
IBM plans open source software for business desktops
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
IBM unveiled on Monday its plan to reduce costs of managing Apple or Linux desktops and wipe out Microsoft's software by offering a new open source software ...
More mid-market firms choose open-source ERP
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
So Alperin chose to use the Compiere open-source ERP suite, so he wouldn't be subject to a vendor's shifting priorities. "The primary motivation was the ...
This Alliance Wants to Ease Open Source Friction
DevX.com - Darien,CT,USA
NEW YORK -- A new open source alliance is in town, consisting of "nobody and everybody" in open source development and looking to do some good. ...
Open source is the software you own
ZDNet - USA
Chris Tomlinson, a British computer consultant, offers a Lakoff-like re-framing of the open source issue in his latest column for the Birmingham Post. ...
Corporate Fight Against Open Source
NewsForge - Fremont,CA,USA
Anonymous Reader writes "Remember during the Dot Com boom when sites used to display which browser you should use in order to best utilize their website? ...
TransNexus Makes RAM Open Source Project and OSP Toolkit Available ...
TMCnet - USA
TransNexus, which provides software products designed to manage secure peer-to-peer VoIP networks, has made the RAMS open source project and OSP Toolkit ...
Open Source Network Monitoring at SCALE 5x
NewsForge - Fremont,CA,USA
These are definitely 3 of the heavy hitters in Open Source network monitoring. Zenoss and OpenNMS are pure Open Source applications, while GroundWork uses a ...
E-Commerce Open Source Shopping Cart Premiered, by Chain Reaction
Cheap Web Hosting Directory (press release) - South Pasadena,CA,USA
The osCommerce-based shopping cart application CRE Loaded, is designed to deliver a host of features in one stable open source application greatly expanding ...
Open Source ERP ADempiere gets worldwide professional support
ClickPress (press release) - UK
This is historical and unprecedented where ERP as Open Source steps into new ground", explained Redhuan D. Oon (Red1), ADempiere project manager. ...
SpikeSource, Bull to accelerate open source adoption
CIOL - Bangalore,Karnatak,India
BANGALORE: US-based SpikeSource, provider of business ready open source solutions and Bull, European IT company and architect of an open world, ...
Openbravo: open-source ERP software for SMEs
Heise Online - Hannover,Germany
Openbravo has just released Version 2.2 of its open-source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. With its solution written in Java on the basis of ...
Open Source CRM Feature Article
TMCnet - USA
The benefits of open source expand from cost savings and flexibility, to providing an alternative for proprietary applications. ...
Event: Yahoo! Hosts Open Source Web CMS Summit
CMSWire - San Francisco,CA,USA
Open Source CMS aficionados, clear out March 22-23 on your calendar because the Open Source Content Management System Summit is being held at Yahoo's ...
LiteScape Releases the Industry's First Open Source Desktop Client ...
CRM Directory (press release) - East Brunswick,NJ,USA
"With the launch of the open source OnCast Client, LiteScape has taken a significant step toward making unified communications as ubiquitous within ...
Why I don't think open source Flash is necessary
ZDNet - USA
>From what I've been able to gather, Ted is a big open source advocate, so obviously he has some strong feelings about a platform that seems to be growing. ...
Open-Source Figures Like the Ubuntu-Linspire Partnership
PC Magazine - USA
News Analysis: Open-source analysts and movers and shakers have looked at the Ubuntu-Linspire partnership, and they give it a big thumbs up. (DesktopLinux) ...
Will politics or economics drive open source?
ZDNet - USA
Which is why some open source advocates may be disquieted by this, word that Cuba's Communist government is embracing open source. ...
Who decides what is open source?
ZDNet - USA
If the code you build from is not GPL it's easy to build a proprietary company on an open source base. PostgreSQL, for instance, uses the BSD license. ...
There's new Competition for Microsoft. Mindquarry Forms Up With an ...
CM Crossroads (press release) - Santa Barbara,CA,USA
Mindquarry offers the first Open Source alternative to Microsoft's Sharepoint Server or IBM's Lotus Connections. The free download is available at ...
Ballmer: 'Open source is not free'
Techworld.com - London,UK
"I would not anticipate that we make a huge additional revenue stream from our Novell deal, but I do think it clearly establishes that open source is not ...
VBA project for OpenOffice to become open source
Heise Online - Hannover,Germany
To make such cooperation possible Sun would, among other things, open source the Java code, the employee notes. "We search for help to convert the Java code ...
CONVERGENCE PICKS SANGOMA TECHNOLOGIES OPEN SOURCE TELEPHONY ...
Telephony World (press release) - USA
"Burraqtel and Worldcall were both looking to deploy an open source platform that could be easily handled by their own technical teams and provide robust ...
Open source integration remains 'elusive'
IT Week - London,UK
"We believe that this effort is a laudable, even critical, step towards making open source software truly competitive with software from traditional closed ...
"Money Can't Buy An Open Source Community," Says VP of Interface21
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA
Neelan Choksi - VP, Americas, of Interface21 - will be speaking at Enterprise Open Source Conference 2007, being held 25-27 June at The Roosevelt Hotel in ...
Exadel finds a different way to open source
ZDNet - USA
Instead it's going to run open source communities for Exadel Studio Pro and RichFaces, as well as the Ajax4jsf project, under the JBoss name. ...
Liferay-CIGNEX Form Open Source Services Partnership
PressZoom (press release) - Amsterdam,Netherlands
"Commercial open source has entered a new stage of maturity," said Bryan Cheung, chief executive officer of Liferay. "Open source has been a disruptive ...
Linden Lab To Open Source Second Life Software
webhostdir.com - Bournemouth,Dorset,UK
Linden Lab®, creator of 3D virtual world Second Life® (www.secondlife.com), released the code of its Viewer application to the open source software ...
Cisco takes NAC software open source
ZDNet UK - UK
Cisco is ceasing development of its network access control client software, called Cisco Trust Agent, and will submit the code to the open-source community. ...
PC reservation software goes open source
Computer Partner - Netherlands
Canadian software company Userful Corp. has announced the open-source release of its PreBook PC reservation and usage management system. ...
UK open source policy institute to open next week
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
benefit from open source and open standards by developing strategic analysis and policy, clarifying opportunities and fostering innovation. ...
Test Center Tracker: Virtual PC woes and open-source definitions
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Don't fear the free: Defining open-source technology has been a tricky task, and the recent explosion of companies claiming to have some form of "open" ...
Photos: Centre to promote open source launched
ZDNet UK - UK
An institute that aims to promote the national use of open-source software was launched at the Houses of Parliament on Monday. ...
California considering ODF move (One more reason "open source ...
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
It's an interesting trend, and one that suggests that this supposedly pointless "what is open source" debate is not so pointless. ...
The Germans are coming, with open source and SaaS
ZDNet.com blogs - USA
The deal may have been greased by the fact the open source project has an office in Nuremberg. (The parent of 1&1 is based near Koblenz. ...
McKesson uses open source to reduce cost of medical IT
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
The Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, and other open source technologies. ...
Using open source software assures free flow of information
Taliya - Tehran,Tehran,Iran
Tehran, March 5, Taliya News – Using open source software can assure the free flow of information end spending national assets abroad. ...
The first political victory for open source
ZDNet - USA
Open source has proven a business model exists that lets customers own software. Apple has shown that in demanding DRM publishers lose control of their own ...
Backup vendors refresh open source products
Search Storage - USA
Two companies have come out with brushups to backup software this week that include new support for MySQL databases and improved interfaces for open source ...
Hyperic: starting from scratch with open-source systems management
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
The company's business model is to sell support for that open-source product and a higher-end version with "enterprise extensions." ...
Emerging Markets Embracing Open Source, Latest Evans Data Survey Shows
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
BUSINESS WIRE)--Developers in emerging market countries are substantially increasing implementation of Open Source code in their applications, according to ...
Alliance Will Push Enterprise Adoption Of Open-Source Code
Dr. Dobb's Journal - San Mateo,CA,USA
The alliance hopes to reduce the number of skills needed to bring open-source code inside the enterprise and make it easier to deploy. ...
$1.89 billion in open source funding (CBR)
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
While some of us were skiing or eating during the Christmas holidays, Matthew Aslett was crunching the numbers on total open source investments since 2000. ...
Sun Microsystems Announces Open Source of Online Game Technology ...
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA
... Inc. announced plans today at the 2007 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to open source Project Darkstar, a ground-breaking online game server ...
Number of Proprietary Software Vendors Adopting Open Source Is ...
Tekrati Industry Analyst Reporter - Belmont,CA,USA
An overall trend among proprietary software vendors to adopt open source software approaches is increasing significantly, according to a study by The 451 ...
Stratus / XenSource Ink Agreement to Link Open Source ...
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA
XenSource, Inc., the leader in infrastructure virtualization solutions based on the open source Xen(TM) hypervisor, today announced a comprehensive family ...
Many Top Open Source Projects Still Lack Enterprise Support
IT Jungle - New York,NY,USA
Commercially supported open source software may not be prevalent, but it is not alien in data centers any more and it is certainly getting to be more normal ...
Open source vendors band together
Techworld.com - London,UK
A group of open source companies from a variety of different product areas has banded together in an effort to improve interoperability among their products ...
Techworld.com - London,UK
10G Ethernet vendor Force10 Networks is changing its core switch operating system to FreeBSD, an open source platform - continuing a major trend in the ...
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