February 18 News IST

Microsoft gets Serious about Open Source
VARIndia (press release) - New Delhi,India
By VARIndia Correspondent Open Source India Week (OSIW) has kicked off its two-day Delhi segment after completing the Bangalore and Mumbai editions. ...

Yahoo, Microsoft at odds on technology
Seattle Times - United States
Microsoft's data centers run on proprietary software that is incompatible with the open-source programs and applications adopted by Yahoo. ...

Review: Apache A Work In Progress
CRN - Manhasset,NY,USA
The CRN Test Center set out to review Apache's open-source ERP code to see how far the product has matured since last year [CRNtech, Feb. 26, 2007]. ...

Novell's Open Source Collaboration Play
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Earlier this week it purchased SiteScape, an open source team collaboration outfit. Novell did not divulge the price, but given that analysts at The 451 ...

Open Source Has Potential with Solutions for the Disabled
India PRwire (Press Release) - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
Open Source India Week (OSIW), India's largest Linux and Open Source concluded its two-day activities in Delhi today after scintillating sessions that ...

The Benefits of 'Vendor-Free' Open Source IT
Slashdot - USA
In the study, analyst Matt Lawton stumbles across an intriguing trend: IT departments do most of the services around open source, rather than third-party ...

Free/Open-source IRC/IM Software
LinuxElectrons - Cedar Park,TX,USA
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet chat or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group (many-to-many) communication in ...

RE[4]: There will never be free open source tools ...
OS News - USA
For the most part the FPGA tools are cross platform although not always done in a very even manner and the vendors got stuck with some bad choices regarding ...

The £99 laptop: how can it be so cheap?
Times Online - UK
The secret is simple: open-source software. The One runs on Linux, which is a rival to Windows but completely free to use. Open-source software can be ...