HP has been quirky over the years when it comes to open source. It has been, traditionally, a company that supports open source -- especially in larger enterprises. While large businesses are a major focus for HP -- and it has supported open source in other ways -- a "smaller business" line of open source products has been a long time coming.
Read more »HP Opens Up Open Source for Small Businesses
http://ostatic.com –
- Login to post comments
Linux & Zeno's Paradox
http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org –
You probably know the one: You wish to get from point A to point B. Before you can reach B, you have to get halfway there. Before you can get halfway, you have to get a quarter of the way. Before you can get a quarter of the way, you have to get an eighth.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Energized by Open Source
http://www.linuxworld.com –
Six-year-old BlueStar Energy Services Inc. doesn't have the kind of systems-baggage that saddles many older organizations. Still, the Chicago-based company found itself hindered by the rigidity of its core systems, which constrained its efforts to expand its customer base and offer new services.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Can Open Source Help the Economy?
http://www.pcworld.com –
In the last major economic downturn, Linux established itself as a widely-accepted enterprise operating system, benefiting a lively ecosystem of vendors such as Red Hat and Novell.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Open Source And SaaS Shake Up ECM
http://www.informationweek.com –
Alfresco and SpringCM are challenging the dominant deployment of proprietary, premises-based software.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Ingres Builds Open Source Stack With Red Hat
http://www.informationweek.com –
Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) and Ingres will offer a combination of Linux, JBoss middleware and the Ingres open source database as a new open source software stack to application developers around the world, the companies recently announced.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Joe the Plumber teaches how to weather the recession with Linux and Open Source models
http://www.itwire.com –
In this globally troubled time open source software - and Linux, its operating system poster child - has clear economic advantages. You've heard talk of Joe the Plumber; let me introduce his little known cousin Cain the CIO who’s looking to do more with less money.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Firefox + Greasemonkey Turbocharge E-Commerce Site--From The Client Side
http://www.linuxplanet.com –
Etsy.com is a large, successful ecommerce operation for sellers of handmade and vintage goods. Sellers set up a shop on Etsy's servers without having to know any Web design or programming, and Etsy charges a small fee to list and sell items.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Pentaho Channel Chief Lars Nordwall Talks Open Source Business Intelligence
http://www.thevarguy.com –
As The VAR Guy has reported, SugarCRM veteran Lars Nordwall is now senior VP of business development at Pentaho — an open source business intelligence software company.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Linux On One HP Desktop: A Small Step, But Still A Step
http://www.linuxloop.com –
Today HP has announced they will ship Linux on their HP Compaq DC5850. If you're like me, your first reaction as soon as you saw it was a small business PC was "yawn." One desktop and not even a consumer one? Big deal, right? Well, it might not be. It seems that HP is toying with Linux more and more.
Read more »- Login to post comments
OpenSolaris tackles Ubuntu dominance
http://www.builderau.com.au –
Sun has crafted the second release of OpenSolaris with a number of improvements in an attempt to make it more competitive with desktop-orientated Linux distributions such as Canonical's Ubuntu.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Cost-Conscious Companies Turn to Open Source Software
http://www.linuxinsider.com –
The now-official recession has hit many corporations hard in the wallets, and that's being reflected in IT budgets. With fewer dollars to work with, IT managers are increasingly turning to open source software to get the job done.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Why the IBM Linux desktop will fail
http://www.itwire.com –
If one was to believe IBM, the days of the Microsoft desktop are numbered, soon to be cut short by a combination of Canonical's Ubuntu Linux, IBM's Lotus range of office applications and a virtual desktop from Virtual Bridges. The trouble is IBM's solution is nothing new and addresses none of the issues associated with moving away from Microsoft.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Stage Two of Open Source Evolution
http://www.itworld.com –
For those of us who believed in Open Source in the "birth" stage, we knew the day would come where nearly every firm would be using Open Source in some way. This would accomplish market "breadth", but not equate to "depth" of use. It would be the sign that we had achieved the magical second stage - The Toe Hold.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Five open source content management systems you should know about
http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com –
Open source has a lot of advantages. For starters, the license is free, which means you take a huge part of the expense out of the equation, but just because the license is free doesn't mean the entire implementation is. You still have to learn about it, set it up, possibly customize it, roll it out, train your users and so forth, just as with any enterprise software.
Read more »
