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- Are Your Products Open or Closed? How to Respond to the New Openness
- Companies in many industries are struggling to determine how best to deal with the power that social computing gives their customers as an open forum to share how they feel about products with millions of fellow consumers. This newfound power in the hands of customers is creating an openness of...
- Tags: Endeca Technologies Inc., Product Innovation, Optaros, Roi/Tco, Social Networking, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- Webcasts 2008-02-27
- Optaros opens OS projects catalog, JBoss Rules 4.0 debuts
- With more than 140,000 open-source projects floating around, finding the right one for your company is a daunting task. For IT managers, who usually don't have the vantage point that developers enjoy, the search can also be fraught with danger. Choosing or backing the wrong project can have far-reaching operational,...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, search, Open Source, JBoss, Java, Intellectual Property, Enterprise Java, Developer Tools
- Blog posts 2007-07-21
- Optaros EOS will take the licensing question seriously
- Optaros EOS will take the licensing question seriouslyClarity is good.I like the idea of a directory that contains a list of software which a reasonable person might think is Free/Libre and Open Source Software, and then clearly documents which ones are using licenses that are approved by the OSI or...
- Tags: open source, Optaros EOS, Optaros, benefit
- Discussion threads 2007-07-19
- Optaros EOS will take the licensing question seriously
- Optaros has launched its Enterprise Open Source Directory.It is a very good thing, better than a plate of Martha Stewart bran muffins. That is partly because it has listing criteria, including only those projects which are truly enterprise class.But in doing this it also includes projects like SugarCRM whose open...
- Tags: support, Standards, Software Licensing, Legal, General, Enterprise Policy, content, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
Additional Resources
- Late night baseball games, Microsoft concessions evoke big yawns at open source water cooler
- Microsoft's agreement to provide full technical documentation – and lower royalties – on its software protocols is a big yawn to the open source community, developers and consultants say. No surprise. Since its battle with the European commission began almost a decade ago, web services have...
- Tags: Game, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- News to know: Mashups; Windows to Mac; Windows 7; Search engine privacy
- Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Switching from Windows to Mac: The ROI case.Dion Hinchcliffe: A bumper crop of new mashup platforms.Search engines race to update privacy policies. Larry Dignan: Is privacy the new search competitive edge?Mary Jo Foley: Windows Seven: Think 2010. Next version of Windows: Call it 7.Dana Gardner: The macro...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Open source value in corporate blogs
- Blogging itself is 10 and so (technically) is corporate blogging, since Dave Winer (right) was running Userland Software when he launched Scripting News in 1997.Enough time has now gone by to draw some conclusions, about the value such blogs may have and who should be doing them.The best corporate blogs, like...
- Tags: management, General, Enterprise Policy, content, Blogroll
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Red Hat regains mischief-maker role with metadata vendor acquisition
- As Red Hat and its JBoss unit ramp up their SOA offerings and capabilities, they are re-emerging as a powerful mischief-maker to the established commercial vendors -- this time on the subject of data lifecycle in the age of SOA. But there soon could be much more mischief from Raleigh.Red...
- Tags: database, datacenters, Developer Tools, Eclipse, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Java, HP, IBM, IT Management, JBoss, Linux, management, Microsoft, Open Source, Oracle, Red Hat, SOA, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Why Microsoft should open-source SQL Server and SharePoint
- Stephen Walli, the former Microsoft exec turned open-source proponent, is at it again. This time, the former Softie is making a case for why Microsoft should consider open-sourcing some of its crown jewels, including SQL Server and SharePoint. And hes got a few reasons that might make even...
- Tags: Database, SQL Server, Corporate strategy, Legal, SharePoint Server, Linux, Stephen Walli
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- Microsoft looks beyond Vista, sees Vienna
- Microsoft looks beyond Vista, sees ViennaWinFS"However, there are several features that were pulled out of Vista that could conceivably become part of Vienna, most notably a new file storing mechanism known as WinFS." Considering WinFS will be arriving shortly after Vista is released, and will be released for XP...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), ROI/TCO, vision, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., rep
- Discussion threads 2006-01-20
- Get a load of the new mortar for open source bricks
- One of the common criticisms of deploying open source components and emerging stacks is that they are disjointed, hard to integrate, and lack a common management control capability. Today's open source server components amount to a helter-skelter pile of autonomous bricks, and the already overtaxed corporate IT staff is left...
- Tags: open source
- Blog posts 2005-09-02
- Get a load of the new mortar for open source bricks
- One of the common criticisms of deploying open source components and emerging stacks is that they are disjointed, hard to integrate, and lack a common management control capability. Today's open source server components amount to a helter-skelter pile of autonomous bricks, and the already overtaxed corporate IT staff is left...
- Tags: open source
- Blog posts 2005-09-02
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