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Frequent Open Source Miles ZDNet: "Matt Asay's piece on 'open source free-riders' got my goat this morning because we're on opposite sides of the market..." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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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 |
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Practical Traveler | Frequent Fliers: Playing Markets That Trade Miles New online services have quietly begun testing ways for travelers to leverage unused miles. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Red Hat: Open source benefits from U.S. unpopularity The unpopularity of the United States has IT users in foreign countries happy to use open-source software, Red Hat President/CEO Jim Whitehurst said at the InfoWorld Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Open-source ERP grows up Can open-source software find a home in mission-critical systems? Based on momentum in the open-source ERP (enterprise resource planning ) market, it's starting to look that way, particularly for IT leaders at midmarket and smaller enterprises. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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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 |
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Open source entering the mobile computing space Open-source strategies are gathering steam in the mobile computing realm with companies like Wake3 and Funambol leveraging open source to bring iPhone-style browsing and e-mail to devices.During a meeting of the Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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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 |
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'PatentGate' one year later: MS against open-source world It was just over a year ago that Microsoft dropped a bombshell of a claim: users of Linux and open source software were unwittingly violating as many as 235 Microsoft software patents."This is not a case of some Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Open APIs may help Microsoft repair reputation If Microsoft executes effectively on its new interoperability promises, it could repair its tarnished reputation in the technology industry and help the company get out of its own way to compete more effectively with Google. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Some open sourcers keeping open mind about Microsoft pledges Microsoft made a mountainous down payment on its high-profile pledge Thursday to improve interoperability and warm up its relationship with the open source community, releasing some 30,000 pages of documentation for Windows client and server protocols. After digestin Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun cites open source tribulations Sun Microsystems officials on Monday acknowledged issues the company has had to deal with in offering products such as the OpenSolaris OS and Java via an open source business model.Morning events at the Communit Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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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 |
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By Open Sourcing Symbian, Nokia Kicks Off the Mobile Age The mobile software age is here. Symbian co-founder Nokia announced Monday night that it is buying the 52 percent of the software maker that it doesn’t already own and releasing its mobile operating system under an open source license. With that move, Symbian joins two other Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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By Open Sourcing Symbian, Nokia Kicks Off the Mobile Age The mobile software age is here. Symbian co-founder Nokia announced Monday night that it is buying the 52 percent of the software maker that it doesn’t already own and releasing its mobile operating system under an open source license. With that move, Symbian joins two other Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Red Hat open-sources security framework Red Hat has open-sourced its identity-management and security system to promote its assertion that open-source software provides the most secure infrastructure.The Linux vendor said Wednesday it has released the Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Universities build open-source enterprise applications A group of U.S. universities is blazing a new path in open source software. The members are building a set of enterprise applications -- the big, important, mission-critical ones that have long been the exclusive domain of software companies like Oracle, SAP, and Mi Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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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 |
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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 |
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Update: Facebook open sources parts of its app development platform Facebook is releasing as open-source software parts of its application development platform in order to make it easier for programmers to create applications for the social-networking site, the company announced Monday. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |