Stories about: Open Source Solutions

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    Microsoft to present open-source blueprint for down economy 25/03/2009 08:25:00

    Microsoft plans to use this week's Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) to outline its move into the next phase of its open source strategy around building a business model for the down economy, according to company officials.
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    Could IBM be Sun's savior? 19/03/2009 08:06:00

    The high-tech rumor mill churned at high speed Wednesday as industry watchers debated the good, the bad and the ugly about a potential pairing of IBM and Sun, if Big Blue does indeed acquire its long-time rival.
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    Cold Fusion on the cheap 24/07/2008 11:17:50

    Open-source applications are available free of charge,, but that doesn't mean they won't cost you in other ways, a point I addressed last week. Without a vendor guaranteeing support and app stability, you may find that you need to invest countless hours learning how to work with all the little nuances involved in getting the open-source application up and running. Research, forums, installs, failures, troubleshooting; the time adds up, and as we all know, time is money.
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    No excuses -- encrypt all laptops 23/07/2008 09:53:07

    Every year, more than 5,000 laptops are lost in taxis in London, New York, Chicago and other large cities. According to our research, in 2008 companies' topmost security investment was laptop encryption. Laptop hard drives are getting bigger and now can hold hundreds of thousand to hundreds of millions of sensitive records.
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    Linux for the SMB market: slow, steady or both? 03/03/2008 08:35:55

    Everywhere you turn nowadays, another company is targeting the Small and Medium Business (SMB) marketplace. SMBs are growing, and represent a segment of the IT market that has not been fully exploited by many, including open source software vendors that boasted early successes with large enterprises.
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    Openbravo executives open up on the ERP solution 25/10/2007 08:21:10

    Openbravo, an Open Source web-based ERP product, was project of the month on SourceForge in September. The project uses a Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1). It has 68 developers and over 200 contributors and has been downloaded over 350,000 times; with that number increasing by about 1,000 downloads per day.
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    Red Hat exec: Open Source is mature, disruptive and innovative 24/10/2007 08:54:53

    Open source is disruptive, it develops rapidly, is adopted quickly, and it efficiently meets market needs while enabling new market capabilities. These were some of the statements made at an open source symposium held in Western Australia (WA) earlier this month.
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    Best of open source applications 11/09/2007 10:00:42

    A hunger for lighter-weight and lower-cost sales and CRM applications has brought great success to SaaS vendors such as Salesforce.com, and also lifted the fortunes of open source offerings in the space. Open source ERP has had a harder time breaking out, but here too there are several impressive offerings to choose from. And if you're looking to open source for an enterprise portal, CMS, or Microsoft Exchange substitute, you will not be disappointed.
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    Open Source VOIP Connects to Business 21/03/2007 09:39:09

    Nearly three years since Jon "maddog" Hall predicted that "VOIP using an open source solution, such as Asterisk, will generate more business than the entire Linux marketplace today," open source VOIP for the enterprise remains a wild frontier. SMB uptake has been considerable, as open source VOIP's promise of control and cost savings make it a natural fit. But when it comes to large-scale implementations, open source voice has yet to get most enterprises to listen.
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    Dell to users: What do you want in a Linux machine 14/03/2007 08:47:09

    If you want Dell to build a new laptop or desktop PC with Linux on it, now's the time to tell the company just what you want.
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    Open-source sandbox eases app deployment 23/05/2006 16:23:44

    I've just returned from a day at the University of Mary Washington, where I participated in the annual Faculty Academy on Instructional Technologies. I greatly enjoyed the opportunity to give a keynote talk on 21st century literacy, and to discuss Web 2.0 with a panel of like-minded thinkers.
 
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