In the ongoing debate between open source purists and people who appreciate and defend proprietary software, extremists will always have their voices, but many people in the open source community are waking up to the fact that proprietary platforms and applications can co-exist peacefully with open source ones.
Read more »Increasingly, Open Source Coexists With Proprietary Software
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11 free open-source apps your small business can use now
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Despite the wealth of free applications out there, many small business owners continue to spend an inordinate amount of their all-too-scarce resources on software. Microsoft Office 2010? That'll be $499.99 -- or $279.99 if you can do without the Professional version. QuickBooks 2010? $159.95 or more. Adobe PhotoShop CS5? A whopping $699.
Read more »Open Source Adoption Reaches Tipping Point
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Open source software is finding increasing favour, with many businesses now committing to clear open source strategies and policies
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Cloud APIs Get Open Source Treatment
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OpenStack and Apache Deltacloud do have similar goals. They're both building out lightweight REST APIs so companies can tap into the services of a cloud provider over an HTTP network. But they're likely to be used for different purposes.
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An Open (Source) and Shut Case
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Talend, a five-year-old maker of database-management software, was fortunate in its recent hiring of its first full-time CFO. Talend sought a more specific type of experience, related not to the function of its product but rather to its business model.
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Working With Open Source Project Teams To Fix Software Problems
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If you wanted to write your own software, you’d have already done it yourself or paid someone to do it. But if you find problems with a FOSS app, you can, and should, communicate with the open source project’s developers to ensure that the application performance issues are addressed. Here's the way to get what you want.
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Open source investment set to grow in 2010
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Open source software may be looking at a bumper year in 2010, as a new survey showed companies are looking to invest.
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Open source BI products compared
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Market research company Forrester has compared a number of open source Business Intelligence products and found some big differences
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Zenoss Releases 2010 Open Source Systems Management Survey Report
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Zenoss Inc., the corporate sponsor of Zenoss Core, today announced the release of the 2010 Open Source Systems Management Survey.
Read more »The Organic Source Movement?
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Should open source look to the organic food business for a model of how to integrate principles and business?
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VMware: Using Open Source Alfresco to Attack Microsoft SharePoint?
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Sources say VMware is mulling a partnership, investment or outright acquisition of Alfresco — the open source enterprise content management system. The potential reason: Alfresco would potentially allow VMware to attack Microsoft SharePoint, which generates more than $1 billion in annual revenues for Microsoft. Here are the details.
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Gluster Brings Open Source to Unstructured Data
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Gluster is an open source startup that most people in storage have never heard of. Yet its value proposition could spell trouble for the big boys and potentially send the prices of proprietary hardware crashing down.
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Jean Staten Healy: IBM's Worldwide Linux Strategy
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In October of 2000, IBM CEO Louis Gerstner announced that the company would investing $1 billion in Linux development. This announcement came off the heels of two substantial developments in the industry. Google, unknown at the time, appeared with Linux servers in 1998, and Dell announced they would begin pre-installing Linux on select servers in 1999.
Read more »Canonical Landscape Veteran Joins Dell
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Canonical remains committed to Landscape - the remote systems management platform for Ubuntu. But one of the Landscape team members has joined Dell, according to sources close to the hardware giant. Here's the update.
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5 (More) Best Web eCommerce Software for Linux
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I have already featured here some of the best web eCommerce software available for Linux. However, I've noticed that I left out several other high-quality web e-commerce solutions. So, I decided to give you another round of some of the best open-source web eCommerce software that you may find useful
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