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Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm A small, digital book startup thinks it has a solution to the age-old student lament: overpriced textbooks that have little value when the course is over. The answer? Make them open source -- and give them away. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm A small, digital book startup thinks it has a solution to the age-old student lament: overpriced textbooks that have little value when the course is over. The answer? Make them open source -- and give them away. Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm A small, digital book startup thinks it has a solution to the age-old student lament: overpriced textbooks that have little value when the course is over. The answer? Make them open source -- and give them away. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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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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Open Solutions Alliance looking for momentum boost The Open Solutions Alliance is hoping to shake off some growing pains as it moves through its second year, according to its president, Dominic Sartorio."We've definitely had challenges," he said. "We've gone t 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 |
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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 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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Jitterbit reveals open source data integration tool Data-integration vendor Jitterbit is releasing the 2.0 version of its platform on Monday, adding another entry to a growing group of open source alternatives to proprietary offerings from the likes of IBM, SAS, and Informatica. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Nokia goes after Google with open-source Symbian Nokia has announced its Symbian mobile operating system will join the likes of Android and will become an open-source operating system. The announcement was made Tuesday at the Smartphone Show in London and is seen as a bid to maintain and possibly grow its developer Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Nokia goes after Google with open source Symbian Nokia has announced its Symbian mobile operating system will join the likes of Android and will become an open source operating system. The announcement was made Tuesday at the Smartphone Show in London and is seen as a bid to maintain and possibly grow its developer Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Open source will be in every business within 12 months Open source software is almost universal in the enterprise, a survey from analyst group Garner has confirmed.New research has highlighted quite how pervasive open source software (OSS) has become, with 85 percen Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft's Ozzie talks open source, mesh Microsoft has "dramatically" changed because of open-source software, the company's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said Thursday as part of a wide-ranging discussion during the annual Most Valuable Professional summit in Seattle. He also talked about Microsoft's m Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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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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Open source: What you should learn from the French A decade ago, European countries leapt out of the gate to take the lead in the radical open source movement -- none more so than France -- and left U.S. developers in the proverbial dust. Through policies and high-profile projects, the French Republic for years has be Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work? Check this out," Massimo Banzi says. The burly, bearded engineer wanders over to inspect a chipmaking robot—a "pick and place" machine the size of a pizza oven. It hums with activity, grabbing teensy electronic parts and stabbing them into position on a circuit board like a hyperactive Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work? Check this out," Massimo Banzi says. The burly, bearded engineer wanders over to inspect a chipmaking robot—a "pick and place" machine the size of a pizza oven. It hums with activity, grabbing teensy electronic parts and stabbing them into position on a circuit board like a hyperactive Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work? Check this out," Massimo Banzi says. The burly, bearded engineer wanders over to inspect a chipmaking robot—a "pick and place" machine the size of a pizza oven. It hums with activity, grabbing teensy electronic parts and stabbing them into position on a circuit board like a hyperactive Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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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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Open-source software a security risk, study claims Open-source software is a significant security risk for corporations that use it because in many cases, the open source community fails to adhere to minimal security best practices, according a study released Monday. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |