Home|
Alfresco Founder Says Open Source Makes Software Better Linux.com: "In 2005, Alfresco was the first open source software company in the UK to capture venture funding, for its collection of enterprise document management applications..." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
|
Survey: Open source is entering the enterprise mainstream Open-source solutions used to be adopted quietly by company boffins who snuck in an Apache Web server or an open-source development tool suite under the philosophy "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission" (not to mention "It's easier to do it with open-source Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
|
MySQL upgrade now slated for June, Sun says Sun pushed out a "near final" version of MySQL 5.1 on Tuesday, but is holding back the production release of the open-source database until it irons out some remaining bugs, officials said Tuesday.Sun wants to a Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
|
Craigslist founder talks about open source, banner ads In a candid discussion of his classified ads site and its business model, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark said Tuesday he has considered open-sourcing some Craiglist technology, frowns upon banner ads, and believes the site's impact on newspaper ad sales is exaggerat Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
|
Ubuntu founder urges Linux desktop to rival Apple Ubuntu Linux Founder Mark Shuttleworth urged development of a Linux desktop to rival what Apple has done in this space and aired a vision of software changing the world.Shuttleworth, speaking at the O'Reilly Ope Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
|
Alfresco wants to stand in for SharePoint server Open-source content management vendor Alfresco is hoping to lure away some business from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) -- with an assist from Microsoft itself.Its Alfresco Labs v3 product, now in bet Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
|
Microsoft open policy faces scrutiny Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, decided it was time to make peace.That's one reason, according to Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's deputy general counsel and vice president of intellectual property and li Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
|
AMD goes open source with performance library Advanced Micro Devices is making its performance library available as open-source code, which should help developers build multithreaded applications for x86 machines.The three-year-old library contains more th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
|
Intel says Moblin update coming soon Intel is readying a second release of the Moblin open-source platform for mobile computing, with plans set for an alpha-level version in a few weeks, an Intel official said at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Ore. on Wednesday. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
|
Open-source funding day: Greenplum, Alfresco, Zenoss Three open-source software firms announced investments today: $27 million for Greenplum, $11 million for Zenoss, and $9 million for Alfresco. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNET |
|
Update: Microsoft makes boldest move yet embracing open source In a major turnaround for Microsoft, the company Thursday promised "greater transparency" in its development and business practices, outlining a new strategy to provide more access to APIs and previously proprietary protocols for some of its major software products, i Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
|
Open source code examined A code analysis of popular open source software projects has revealed that the quality and security of open source software continues to improve.In its "Scan Report on Open Source Software 2008," Coverity analyz Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
|
Eating Alfresco: the Healthier FOSS Alternative to SharePoint IT Wire: "I assisted a company today with a spectacular Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS) crash. The experience showed some folly in the oft-claimed mantra that Windows-based applications are graphical and friendly. In fact, heres a free Linux-friendly open source package called Af Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
|
The benefits of an open source SOA Service-oriented architectures are helping companies do everything from automate business processes to increase agility, but implementing the technology is not necessarily forthright.SOA requires the integration Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
|
Microsoft sponsors Open Source Census Microsoft has become a sponsor of The Open Source Census, a project started earlier this year that aims to track and catalog the use of open source software in enterprises worldwide, the group announced Monday.T Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
|
Firefox closer to supporting open source video codec Mozilla is edging closer to releasing a new version of Firefox that could increase the use of open source video software.Firefox 3.1, the next major release due by early next year, will likely include support fo Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
|
Microsoft cited for open efforts, eyes Eclipse Microsoft received plaudits and criticism for its openness efforts at the MIX08 event Thursday with a Microsoft official also citing an overture toward the Eclipse Foundation for open-source tooling.During a pan Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
|
Open source a no-brainer for SaaS providers Open source will start to dominate software infrastructure for providers of SaaS (Software as a Service) within three years. For them it's almost a no-brainer, according to Gartner analyst Yefim Natis."They will Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
|
XTuple releases 'hybrid' open-source ERP XTuple has released the 3.0 version of its ERP (enterprise resource planning) application, with new features including a screen-builder tool for designing dashboards and a product configurator for processing custom orders. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
|
Sun SPOT technology set for open source Sun is expected to announce next week that it will make the Sun SPOT (Small Programmable Object Technology) device platform available via open source, but a user expressed concerns about Sun's commitment to the technology. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |