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- 85% of US companies using open source
- 85% of companies are using open-source software, with most of the remaining 15% expecting to do so within the 2009, according to Gartner. 31% of companies had formal policies for evaluating and procuring open-source software. by AM
- Tags: Software, Open-source Software, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management, AM
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Gartner: 85 percent of companies using open source
- The analyst house warns that, although take-up of open-source software is widespread, most companies do not have formal procurement or governance policies in place for such software. Eighty-five percent of companies are already using open-source software, with most of the remaining 15 percent expecting to do so...
- Tags: Software, Open Source, Open-source Software, Gartner Inc., OSS, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, open source, governance, Gartner
- News items 2008-11-17
- Red Hat CEO: Money crisis will boost open source
- Red Hat CEO: Money crisis will boost open sourceRed Hat CEO: Money crisis will boost open sourceNotice how he says open source but never uses the term linux. He know's that his company is dying because their one product is dying. Its almost laughable that he would openly...
- Tags: future gain, Red Hat Inc., open source, Linux, open-source software
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- Congress: Open-source for U.S. military
- If you thought you'd never see the phrase"open-source" in a federal funding bill, think again. The House's proposed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (H.R. 5658) includes language that calls for military services to consider open-source software when procuring manned or unmanned aerial vehicles,...
- Tags: Software, Open-source Software, U.S. Congress, House, GCN, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Software Development, Management, Software/Web Development, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Is content you can edit open source?
- Is content you can edit open source?Web 2.0 and Open Source softwares not to be confusedHello, first of all thanks for the article.Second of all, on a marketing side, I think we have to differ Open Source softwares and Web 2.0 applications.Open source softwares means that the root code (the...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Web site development, Web 2.0, open-source software, open source, software, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Open source software to generate $4.83 bln by 2012
- IDC expects worldwide revenue from open source software to grow at a 23% CAGR to reach $4.83 bln by 2012. Worldwide revenue from standalone OSS in 2007 was $1.73 bln. by AM
- Tags: Software, Revenue, Open-source Software, Open Source, Operational Accounting, Finance, AM
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Why is Microsoft sponsoring the Open Source Census?
- The Open Source Census, a collaborative project endeavoring to quantify the use of open-source software in enterprises, got a new sponsor on June 16. Microsoft. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Open-source Software, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- iPhone 2.0 lets open source in through back door
- iPhone 2.0 lets open source in through back doorThanks for that link!I'm going to look into Funambol. Given Apple's security record and the crippled nature of iPhone 2 when compared to anything other than iPhone 1, I'm staying far, far, far away from their whole platform.Apple's ephemeral dominanceApple's current market...
- Tags: Linux, Apple iPhone, open source, Apple Inc., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- Do the Busybox cases change anything?
- The GPL violation cases known collectively as the BusyBox cases never went to court, but they do seem to have settled the question of whether the license is enforceable. It is. So why is Edward Walsh, an attorney at Wolf Greenfield in Boston, trying to...
- Tags: Software, GPL, Open-source Software, Compliance, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- How do I... Connect an Apple iPod to an Ubuntu Linux PC?
- It is indeed possible to connect an Apple iPod MP3 player to a personal computer running Ubuntu Linux. Jack Wallen shows you what open source software application you need and how to set it up.
- Tags: Ubuntu, Apple iPod, PC, Open-source Software, Apple Inc., Ubuntu Linux, Linux PC, Jack Wallen, Open Source, Digital Music, Digital Media, Linux, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Operating Systems, Software
- Download resources 2008-06-03
- Open source software security improving
- Open source software security improvingThere's no such thing as an open source software security problem...Didn't we all learn this already from our "trusted" zealots.
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Open-source software security, open-source software, security
- Discussion threads 2008-05-26
- Open source software security improving
- You cannot say something's good or bad unless you benchmark or compare it against something else. According to the Linus's Law, "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", a mentality which when combined with static code analysis of the most popular and widely used open source projects such as Firefox,...
- Tags: Security, Open-source Software, Analysis, Open Source Project, Open Source, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- Open-Source Software Kit and Community Portal Advance Web Accessibility
- Worldwide, many organizations are adopting Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for collaboration and content management. To make Office SharePoint Server 2007 available to users with hearing, vision, and learning impairments, organizations need an efficient and affordable way to create SharePoint-based Web sites that meet accessibility standards. Although various vendors offer...
- Tags: Web, Microsoft SharePoint, Open-source Software, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Portal, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-05-09
- News on the ultra low-cost PC front
- Those under-sized, ultra low-cost laptops continue to generate over-sized news. When Dell announced a $600 laptop for the India market, many sites assumed this was the rumored 8.9-inch challenger to the Asus Eee PC and HP Mini-note. Instead, the Dell 500 appears to be a run-of-the-mill, budget 15.4-inch model...
- Tags: ASUS, Intel Celeron, PC, Open-source Software, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Engineering, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Extended Assortitivity and the Structure in the Open Source Development Community
- Open source software development represents the work of hundreds of thousands perhaps millions of developers around the world and is a critical component of many widely-used software products. Much of this development is self-organizing, taking place outside the structures of specific organizations. This paper introduces 'Developmetrics,' the application of Bibliometrics...
- Tags: Software, Network, Open-source Software, Indiana University, Open-source Software Development, Productivity, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2008-02-08
- Security Engineering and Open Source Software Development
- Open source projects usually do not define tasks and workflows explicitly in contrast to the closed source software business. However, this does not mean that security related quality assurance and maintenance does not happen. The paper wants to make open source software more secure by learning how secure systems are...
- Tags: Software, Open-source Software, F/OSS, Freie Universitat Berlin, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Security, Management
- White papers 2008-01-27
- Is open source recession proof?
- In the Hardware 2.0 mailbag the other day I received an interesting question concerning open source software and the effect that a recession might have on it. I've got some thoughts on this myself but I thought that it would be interesting to throw this to you the reader to...
- Tags: Software, Open-source Software, Open Source, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- McAfee claims open source legal concerns are much ado about nothing
- McAfee says concerns about potential open source litigation are unfounded. The company issued a statement this week to ZDNet following news this week that the security software company cited potential legal risks associated with its use of open source in its most recent annual report and...
- Tags: Software, McAfee Inc., Risk, Open-source Software, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- GlassFish v2: Open for Business
- Open-source software is becoming a very attractive choice for a lot of companies and their in-house developers. That's because the community can freely acquire and upgrade the source code for open-source software. This usually means that the software improves at a much faster rate than does proprietary software, and the...
- Tags: Software, Open-source Software, Project GlassFish, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Evaluating Open Source Software for Your Business
- This paper looks at the strange world of open source IT decision making that can get in the way of good decisions. The exuberant IT manager sees open source like found money or a snow day; if it's free and good, why bother with the evaluation? Let's just use it....
- Tags: Software, Open-source Software, Pathfinder Development, Open Source
- White papers 2008-01-01
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