Two EU-funded projects in the area of Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS), namely OpenTTT and FLOSSMETRICS, have recently published a F/OSS guide for SMEs. Different types of software applications and businesses are addressed, making this guide useful for most SMEs that wish to simply use F/OSS or even build a F/OSS-based business approach.
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Debian GNU/Linux SuiteTelecentro: millions of users for the digital society every year
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The Brazilian Debian GNU / Linux SuiteTelecentro benefits more than 4 millions users every year.
The Brazilian Debian GNU / Linux SuiteTelecentro is a custom solution which is currently being deployed in the Digital Inclusion Program of Banco do Brasil. SuiteTelecentro is used in approximately 2000 telecentres and computer rooms.
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Categorizing OSS customers
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I've been thinking about this statement from Sun/MySQL's Marten Mickos: "There's a difference between organizations that have more time than money and organizations that have more money than time."
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Open-source software has found increasing acceptance within IT for infrastructure application - but many may still wonder, 'Is it possible to run a company almost entirely with open-source offerings?'
Read more »Microsoft tax evasion: Get gNewSense
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"The company Los Alamos Computers is now offering systems preinstalled with gNewSense, the fully free GNU/Linux operating system distribution..."
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Near-shoring open-source development to Latin America with North-by-South
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This blog entry on Matt Asay's Open Road blog at C-Net talks about the emerging advantages to off-shoring development to Latin America, because of the incredible free software movement happening there and the benefits over far-away development to "code factories" in India or Eastern Europe.
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There are lots of different ways you can build software and the typical ways in which FOSS development and proprietary development are done are quite dramatically different. In this article, I’m going to talk about what problems the typical FOSS method can face when open source products are integrated within enterprise environments.
Read more »Microsoft drops Yahoo bid
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Michael Liedtke
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE–Microsoft Corp. has withdrawn its $42.3-billion (U.S.) bid to buy Yahoo Inc., scrapping an attempt to snap up the tarnished Internet icon in hopes of toppling online search and advertising leader Google Inc
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Open source big names help attract new users
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Participation by big open source vendors is helping attract new interest in Linux user groups in Asia.
Read more »Canadian British Columbia's School District #73 opts for Debian GNU / Linux
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Kamloops Thompson School District #73, British Columbia, Canada, with 55 elementary and secondary schools, chose a majority of open source software on Debian GNU / Linux as it is easier to maintain and in their experience offers better support.
Read more »Study: 70 percent say Red Hat more secure than Windows
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The Standish group recently completed an extensive study that examines factors influencing open-source adoption. Based on five years of research and analysis, the report provides intriguing insights into open-source adoption levels and the way that open source is reshaping the software industry.
Read more »Microsoft’s Weapon Against Google: A Lot of GNU/Linux, Apparently
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It is no secret that Microsoft uses a lot of GNU/Linux in house and we covered some examples of this in the past. Even just a week ago Microsoft acquired yet another company (Forecast) for over 100 million dollars and that company has merely everything based on Free software, including GNU/Linux. It brags about it in its Web site.
Read more »Closing MySQL: Marten Mickos Responds
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News that MySQL was to bring out a closed-source add on has provoked a storm of protest across the Internet. Here is an interview with Marten Mickos trying to explain what is going on
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A Linux Server in the Palm of Your Hand
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Plat'Home's latest product, OpenBloks is a pint-sized Linux server that weighs in at a measly 225 grams. It's not much bigger than a deck of cards, but it can run many of the same server applications full-sized machines run. It's ideal for many surveillance and automation processes that rely heavily on reliability.
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Open Source ERP Grows Up
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ERP has been a kind of final frontier for open source software. But now more IT leaders at midsize and smaller businesses are saying yes to open source software for ERP systems that pump the very heart of the business.
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Popular contentIBM Turns To Linux In Desktop Campaign Against Microsoft
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The company plans to ship Ubuntu and Red Hat versions of its "Open Collaboration Client," a combination of Lotus Notes 8 and Symphony. Read more »Teachers becoming Free Software advocates as GNU/Linux finds its perfect home in Kerala's schools
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I am inviting you to see the schools in my district.There you can see how reachers handling linux .Of course there is some problems in Printer Driver but it can be solved in the new versions .You must realise the Propreitory Rights .It is a new OS it will take some time to establish .You are listing the problems are your problems only Read more »Global Server Load Balancing with Open Source tools
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Global Server Load Balancing is the automatic routing of users to the nearest / fastest server to them based on their source IP. Typically a GSLB solution requires expensive application switches at each site, and additional software licenses that run into the thousands of dollars. Read more »A Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is
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Oh, how the mighty have fallen... this is Microsoft we’re talking about, and if its proposed acquisition of Yahoo signals anything, it serves as a confirmation that Microsoft’s glory days are in the past. Read more » |
Popular content continuedAnybody up to writing good directory software?
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Say you're looking for free software on the internet. You are quite likely to come across sites like Super Shareware, Shareware Links, Software Files, Download Junction and File Buzz. Ah, software directories. You find a vast wealth of free software options, download what you want, and think about how awesome free software is. So you've found what you're looking for. Or have you? Read more »
The Non-Revocable GPL
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I know by now you've seen the notice by the guy claiming to "revoke" the GPL license on his code, because I'm getting email about it. Read more »Free voice recognition software that works
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If you are considering adding voice recognition to your AI or robotics project then you are probably looking for a free implementation that works well. Read more » |
