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News on the ultra low-cost PC front: Those under-sized, ultra low-cost laptops continue to generate over-sized news. When Dell announced a $600 laptop for the India market, many sites assumed this was the rumored 8.9-inch challenger to the Asus Eee PC and HP Mini-note. Instead, the Dell 500 appears to be a run-of-the-mill, budget 15.4-inch model...; Tags: ASUS, Intel Celeron, PC, Open-source Software, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Engineering, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-04-23
Is open source recession proof?: In the Hardware 2.0 mailbag the other day I received an interesting question concerning open source software and the effect that a recession might have on it. I've got some thoughts on this myself but I thought that it would be interesting to throw this to you the reader to...; Tags: Software, Open-source Software, Open Source, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-01-14
McAfee claims open source legal concerns are much ado about nothing: McAfee says concerns about potential open source litigation are unfounded. The company issued a statement this week to ZDNet following news this week that the security software company cited potential legal risks associated with its use of open source in its most recent annual report and...; Tags: Software, McAfee Inc., Risk, Open-source Software, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-01-09
GlassFish v2: Open for Business: Open-source software is becoming a very attractive choice for a lot of companies and their in-house developers. That's because the community can freely acquire and upgrade the source code for open-source software. This usually means that the software improves at a much faster rate than does proprietary software, and the...; Tags: Software, Open-source Software, Project GlassFish, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management; White papers 2008-01-01
Hourglass (6): Hourglass allows you to track the time spent on various programming (or other) tasks, and provides reporting mechanisms for analyzing the use of your time. Hourglass is an easy to use, open source software solution to track the time you spend on any type of project. This version is the...; Tags: Open-source Software, Hourglass, Open Source; Software downloads 2007-11-13

Open source adoption: More rigor, less emotion: Determining a move toward open source and open standards needs to become a lot less emotional. And to get there companies need to cook up a policy for evaluating a move to open standards and open source. Those are two of the big takeaways from Andrea Di Maio,...; Tags: Open Standard, Open-source Software, Di Maio, Open Source, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-10-09
Irate over markdown, iPhone user sues Apple for $1 million: Irate over markdown, iPhone user sues Apple for $1 millionGawd you need a life.What does this have to do with Microsoft? This was an article about Apple. No where was Microsoft mentioned. Yet you write a book railing against Microsoft. What is it like to be so consumed with hate...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating systems, open-source software, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple iPhone; Discussion threads 2007-10-02
Windows Administrator's Guide to Open Source Software: TechRepublic's Windows Administrator's Guide to Open Source Software in the Enterprise takes a look at some of the most popular open source options available from a Windows administrator perspective. It presents field-tested recommendations for making open source program play nice in a Windows environment. This e-book...; Tags: Software, Open-source Software, Windows Administrator, Open Source; Download resources 2007-08-24
Microsoft patent FUD working against Linux, says new study: Looks like Microsoft's FUD campaign against Linux and open source is paying off, according to a new IDC study. Matthew Lawton, director of IDC's Worldwide Software Business Strategies Group, revealed some interesting tidbits from the non-public study in a conference call this week:The potential for copyright and patent infringement is...; Tags: Patents, Microsoft, Linux, Licenses, General, Community, Commercial; Blog posts 2007-08-02
Navy sets course for open source software: Navy sets course for open source softwareActually...they are tired of getting burned by Microsoft... anybody else remember the USS Yorktown? I do, we helped tow her back... several times. All because of Microsoftware failing. ]:); Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Tools & Techniques, open-source software, software; Discussion threads 2007-06-07
Navy sets course for open source software: The Chief Information Officer of the Department of Navy's IT portfolio has endorsed the use of open source software. In a memo via the Open Source Software Institute, Navy CIO Robert Carey gave guidance on open source software (OSS). Carey wrote that open source software is a key part of...; Tags: Open Source, Linux, Government, General; Blog posts 2007-06-07
Microsoft teams with Xandros as it faces a potentially wider open source software protection under GPLv3: Microsoft teams with Xandros as it faces a potentially wider open source software protection under GPLv3it would be the Linux distributors who violated the agreementIMO, the deal between MS and Linux distros if for MS patents that the Linux distros get. Wouldnt it be the duty of the Linux distros...; Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Free Software Foundation, open source, team, Xandros, open-source software, Microsoft Corp., Linux, GPLv3, Linux Distro, MS IP; Discussion threads 2007-06-04
Microsoft teams with Xandros as it faces a potentially wider open source software protection under GPLv3: We could be at the "send lawyers, guns, and money" moment in the Microsoft-loves-Linux saga begun last fall with the infamous Novell deal. If this ends up in legal limbo -- who benefits most?A long, drawn out legal collision might thwart Microsoft's purported aim to help its Windows users better...; Tags: Windows, Software Infrastructure, Patents, Open Source, Microsoft, management, Linux, Intellectual Property, GPL, .NET; Blog posts 2007-06-04
Microsoft: Free and open source software violates 235 Microsoft patents: Microsoft finally has thrown down the gauntlet and is claiming publicly that free and open-source software (FOSS) violates 235 Microsoft patents. That tally comes from a newly published article in Fortune. In that article, Microsoft licensing chief Horacio Gutierrez wouldn't talk specifics. He declined to specify which Microsoft patents...; Tags: Patent, Open-source Software, Microsoft Corp., F/OSS, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-05-13
Sun launches JavaFX: New open-source software is designed for creative professionals.At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Rich Green, Sun's executive vice president of software, demos JavaFX Script, a new scripting language for writing applications on Java-equipped desktop PCs and mobile devices.; Tags: Desktops, Sun Microsystems Inc., open-source software; Videos 2007-05-08
LAMP on SUSE Linux Enterprise: The LAMP stack of open source software components - Linux; the Apache Web server; MySQL database; and the coder's choice of PHP, Python or Perl - has moved beyond its position as a Web developer's creative toolkit to become a major development platform for the enterprise. Long a cornerstone of...; Tags: Web, Novell Inc., MySQL, Open-source Software, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux, SuSE, Open Source, Channel Management, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2007-05-01
Conversations with Cassatt and Marathon, Thoughts on Novell and Red Hat: It appears that this Blog has caught the attention of many companies offering various products for both software and hardware virtualization. Cassatt and Marathon Technologies are among the companies that contacted me. Im going to speak with representatives of both companies over the coming days. Ill post my thoughts...; Tags: virtualization, virtual access software, Managing virtualized environments, clustering software; Blog posts 2007-04-13
Recommendations for Porting Open Source Software (OSS) to Blue Gene/P: Migrating applications from a Linux cluster to IBM's Blue Gene/P can be a beneficial effort, but it is not an entirely painless effort. Each of the Open Source Software (OSS) components that the application is dependent upon requires a separate port - some of which will be easy and others...; Tags: Open-source Software, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, IBM Corp., Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software; White papers 2007-04-04
Open Source Software's Expanding Role in the Enterprise: Companies Adopt Open Source as Standard: Open source has emerged as one of the more important IT trends in this young century. The application of open source methodologies has grown significantly in scope, as has its usage, over a relatively short period of time. In the study discussed in this paper, more than half the companies...; Tags: Software, Open-source Software, Open Source; White papers 2007-03-01
Cuba to migrate to open-source software: Cuba to migrate to open-source softwareWell duhit's a massive swing away from American based vendors as narcasism and nationalism finally take root and shifts turn to inward solutions. If only the US could separate itself from the indebtedness to China and Mexico's products and reintroduce industry that long ago...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Linux, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, open-source software, Cuba, Stallman, Castro, Communism, communism, software; Discussion threads 2007-02-20