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OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

Open source is a development method that harnesses the power of peer review and transparency. The results are often better quality, higher reliability, more flexible and lower cost solutions.

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If Windows, Linux and OSX Opened Cafes...more

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Top Five Open Source Content Management Systemsmore

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Can open source OSes ever compete against Windows desktops?more

The recent release of Canonical's open source-based software once again kicked up discussion of whether or not a Linux...

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Gartner has released a few days ago the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010 list. Here you can see the wordle cloud...

Obama Drupal-ing around; whitehouse.gov goes open sourcemore

President Barack Obama's White House has chosen Drupal to run the whitehouse.gov Web site. They say George W.

US Department of Defense Improves Open-Source Adoptionmore

The US Department of Defense is making a serious effort to improve open-source adoption. It will be issuing new...

Your early memories of the netmore

its 40 years with a brand-new domain housed in an Y3980 PC running Apache 2.0.46 on Linux. Viva internet! J Arturo...

25 highly anticipated open-source releases coming in 2009more

Roundup of this year's cool open source projects includes a look at browsers, operating systems, mobile software,...

Supporting Bioinformatics with Open Sourcemore

Yesterday we realeased the press release titled "Italy's CASPUR Relies on MySQL Enterprise to Support its...

Shuttleworth: Oracle now largest open source player | Open Sourcemore

Oracle’s planned acquisition of Sun not only makes it a hardware giant but also a huge open source player, Ubuntu’s...

Adobe ‘Strobe’ Getting Market Supportmore

Adobe Systems today (May 12) announced that global media companies, content delivery networks (CDNs), publishers, and...

Meeting Your Own Avatarsmore

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Red Hat to collide with Microsoftmore

For years, Red Hat has happily sold Linux to Unix shops anxious to save money at equivalent or better performance.

Open-Xchange Offers Push Email and OTA Sync for BlackBerry and iPhonemore

Smartphone owners love their push email and easy syncing options. Let's face it, without those handy features, handheld...

Red Hat tells Supremes: software patents stifle innovationmore

Red Hat has filed an amicus curiae brief in a major Supreme Court case. In the brief, Red Hat makes a strong case...

Oracle and MySQL: It's all about Microsoftmore

Oracle is determined to keep MySQL if it acquires Sun, but the reason likely has little to do with open source and...

OpenGoo: A Free, Open Source Productivity Suitemore

Earlier today, a reader reminded me about OpenGoo, a free, open source suite of web-hosted productivity applications.

MySQL, Open Source, SMBsmore

MySQL has just released survey of 637 small and medium-size businesses (less than 500 employees) in Europe documenting...

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The Myth of Crowdsourcingmore

The recent coverage of the $1 million Netflix prize was rightly heralded as a victory for crowdsourcing.

MySQL is Emerging in the Emerging Marketsmore

A survey of more than 400 developers showed that MySQL is closing the lead Microsoft's SQL server has in emerging...

How to Compete Against Open Source Competitionmore

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he...

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The potential impact of Sun-Oracle on MySQL, and its partnersmore

Much of the MySQL-related coverage of the impending acquisition has focused on the likelihood of Oracle killing-off the...

Open Source - Priority #6 for 2009more

The need to reduce costs in technology spending including the licensing and maintenance of software is on the top of...

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