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- Open Source
- Refers to software that is distributed with its source code so that end user organizations and vendors can modify it for their own purposes. Most open source licenses allow...
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- Ubuntu private clouds need more than tools; they need support, too
- Canonical, the London company that founded the Ubuntu Project, today announced professional services to support companies who are building "private cloud" infrastructures behind their corporate firewalls. Earlier this year, the company released a technical preview of Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud UEC, an open-source system that allows companies to...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Tool, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, Open Source, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Is the GPL losing its grip?
- The only non-GPL licenses to attract significant usage are the Artistic License and the standard BSD. But the GPV v3 should, at its present rate of growth, pass the latter in share within six months, the report says. Over half of all projects are still licensed under GPL v2. by...
- Tags: GPL, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- TorrentDam 2.0 (Mac)
- TorrentDam helps you search torrent files on seven search engines: * Bitjunkie * IsoHunt * Mininova * Demonoid * TorrentReactor * ThePirateBay * MyBittorrent * TorrentzThis software is released under GPL.
- Tags: GPL, Apple Macintosh, Search Engine, Search, Open Source
- Software downloads 2009-07-01
- Joomla 1.5.12 (Mac)
- Joomla! is a powerful Open Source Content Management System for building professional web sites easily. It is often the system of choice for small business or home users who want a professional looking site that's simple to deploy and use. It can deliver a robust enterprise-level Web site as well,...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Firefox, Open Source Matters, Web Browsers, Web Site Development, Open Source, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-07-01
- VR-Render 0.8 (Mac)
- A medical image viewer freeware. It is an interactive system for planar and volume visualization which enables practitioners to quickly explore and analyze 3D medical or scientific data on a standard PC (Windows, Linux, MacosX). This software uses fast OpenGL graphics (ATI/NVidia) and is able to load a series of...
- Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Image Processing, Tool, IRCAD, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management
- Software downloads 2009-07-01
- Image for DOS 2.40a (Windows)
- Image for DOS is a reliable and easy to use drive imaging software package. Completely backup your operating systems, including Windows or Linux. It supports any partition type, including FAT, FAT32, NTFS, EXT2/3, Reiser, and XFS. It also supports USB2, IEEE1394, ATAPI CD and DVD drives without the need for...
- Tags: DOS, Linux, Backups, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software
- Software downloads 2009-07-01
- Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0
- Sun Microsystems' latest Open Source desktop virtualization software. by Jason Perlow
- Tags: Desktop, Sun Microsystems Inc., Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Sun Micrososystem, virtualbox, virtualization, sun, server, development, open source, Jason Perlow
- Image galleries 2009-06-30
- Will Stallman C# warning fall flat?
- Stallman's fear is that Microsoft will use its software patents to force open source C# implementations, and applications, underground. Any move toward bringing C#, which Microsoft developed and Mono, which Microsoft supports, into the center of the Linux community must therefore be resisted. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Stallman, C#, .Net, Programming Languages, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Good enough to pay for, part 2: Microsoft Office
- I don't have a secretary, unfortunately, so I do all my own word processing and desktop publishing. Suffice to say, this was not the sort of document for which Google Docs was created. It's also the sort of document that is a lot easier in Word 2007/2008 than...
- Tags: Document, Microsoft Corp., Desktop Publishing, OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Open Source, Software, Office Suites, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Helping corporations leverage the Web, using open source and the cloud
- What do open source and cloud computing have in common? For Navid Safabakhsh, principal at San Francisco and Philadelphia-based interactive web development agency Freshout, it's that both technologies are low-cost, high-yield solutions to help corporations leverage the customer data they collect on the Web. ...
- Tags: Web, Service, Channel Management, Open Source, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Psi 0.13-rc2 (Mac)
- Psi is a client for the Jabber network. It combines a simple ICQ style interface with a cross-platform design, meaning that no matter which Operating System you choose, you'll find Psi easy to use. Psi is released under the GNU General Public Licence, version 2. Source code can be...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Jabber, Psi Team, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-06-30
- OpenLaszlo 4.4 (Mac)
- OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user interface capabilities of desktop client software. OpenLaszlo programs are written in XML and JavaScript and transparently compiled to Flash and, with OpenLaszlo 4, DHTML. The OpenLaszlo APIs provide animation, layout, data binding, server communication, and declarative...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Laszlo Systems Inc., OpenLaszlo, OpenLaszlo Program, Scripting Languages, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-06-30
- Gatekeepers of open source innovation
- Gatekeepers of open source innovationhuh???[i]By making the core of a product open source, then offering the secret sauce as a proprietary addition, companies can bring in the cash needed to create such teams.[/i]That is not freedom as in software!Releasing useless code for free without a key component is not FOSS,...
- Tags: Strategy, open-source innovation, GateKeeper, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-06-29
- Gatekeepers of open source innovation
- There is enormous incentive in the mobile device market, where you can get paid for hardware with open source software embedded in it. So why are Android and Moblin still serving us leftover Apple slices? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Innovation, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Red Hat rumors sign of business as usual
- The next recovery will come from the work of companies like Red Hat or, more likely, from Red Hat's customers, than from the financial services industry. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Recovery for MySQL 2.0 (Windows)
- MySQLRecovery is a powerful data recovery software for corrupted MySQL Server database files (.MYD and .MYI). Recovers table structure and data, restores indexes. Saves retrieved information in Transact-SQL script fit for quick database recreation. Easy to use, no special user skills required.
- Tags: Data Recovery, Recovery, MySQL, Microsoft Windows, Recoveronix, MySQLRecovery, Databases, Storage, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-06-29
- Advanced Host Monitor 8.14 (Windows)
- Advanced Host Monitor is a network monitoring software that continuously monitors servers availability and performance. It checks network servers at regular intervals and takes pre-defined actions as soon as a device does not respond. HostMonitor has 60 test methods, 30 alert methods, highly flexible report and log manager. Package also...
- Tags: Method, Monitor, Network, Network Monitoring, KS-Soft, Advanced Host Monitor, HostMonitor, Network Administration, Telnet, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Open Source, Software
- Software downloads 2009-06-28
- ESF Database Migration Toolkit Standard Edition 6.0.25 (Windows)
- The program transfers data across various database & file systems. It can directly connect to MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, FireBird/InterBase, Access, Excel, Visual Foxpro, SQLite, Paradox, Lotus, dBase, Text, and other formats, and transfer data (including Index, Primary Key, Foreign Key, BLOB, CLOB, and MEMO) between these...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Microsoft Windows, EasyFrom, Databases, Microsoft Excel, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Microsoft Office, Office Suites
- Software downloads 2009-06-28
- Frugal Friday: Residential Broadband Woes, Jacko, Windows 7 vs Snow Leopard pricing, Red Hat, Virtualization, Cleversafe
- Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss my 22-hour cable modem downtime ordeal, Micheal Jackson, Windows 7 and Snow Leopard upgrades, Red Hat's stellar business performance and RHEL clones, Virtualization, and talk with Chris Gladwin, CEO of Cleversafe about their Dispersed Storage technology. ...
- Tags: Cable Modem, Red Hat Inc., Broadband, Microsoft Windows 7, Cable, Microsoft Windows, Broadband Internet, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Open Source, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Is the world now an open source society?
- Is the world now an open source society?The world of computing started as open sourceClosed source only came around when companies started earning money and wanted to guard secrets. Of course profit is what drives capitalism but there are places where open source is of a greater benefit to...
- Tags: open source, open source society
- Discussion threads 2009-06-26

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