Tuesday, October 14, 2008

October 13 News IST

challenging the status quo
ZDNet UK - UK
Open Source is the challenge. And now when such decisions can literally mean life or death for a company I believe more companies will see the logic and ...

Open Source vs. Proprietary Backup And Recovery
Data Storage Connection (press release) - USA
However, with open-source solutions, data can be restored to any type of hardware. This creates another level of flexibility for system administrators.

Spicebird: Open source e-mail done right - Feature
Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK
A new alternative, though, has emerged: Synovel Technologies' Spicebird is an open-source Outlook competitor, offering full-featured e-mail functions, ...

Open source's usability challenge
Builder AU - Australia
That should make usability supremely challenging for open source projects, especially ones of the scale and complexity of Ubuntu. But then, open source is ...

Open Source Video Editing
ITworld.com - Framingham,MA,USA
by Don Watkins There are many good video editors on the market and many of you no doubt have your favorite. If you're a Macintosh user you probably are ...

Why Open Source is good for Academic Institutions?
CIO - Framingham,MA,USA
Open Source with its promise of distributing source code and allowing anyone to modify it or derive other software from it, makes it an excellent choice for ...

 

Who needs an open-source strategy? You do
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
I hope not, but there are plenty of good reasons for Oracle to be looking at acquiring an open-source company like Red Hat. Open-source companies like ...

This week in open source: distro betas, new Mono and Python
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
This week also brought the long-awaited release of Mono 2.0, the latest version of Novell's open-source implementation of the Microsoft .NET framework. ...


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