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- (1) Open Source Software Software that can be modified and recompiled by the user. See open source.
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- MySQL Workbench OSS 5.2.8b1 (Mac)
- MySQL Workbench enables a DBA, developer, or data architect to visually design, generate, and manage all types of databases including Web, OLTP, and data warehouse databases. It includes everything a data modeler needs for creating complex ER models, and also delivers key features for performing difficult change management and documentation...
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- Does Oracle matter to open source
- only as long as Oracle fights M$the reason OSS is doing very well is because people hate M$ and proprietary software in general.As long as Oracle will fund this insurgency against the evil M$ empire everybody will be better off.Eventually M$ will collapse like the Soviet Union and great days...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- Open source loves profit
- with M$ on the brink....OSS is the only way to make money from software.nah, socialism doesn't workIt doesn't at national level. It ain't in software industry as well.RE: Open source loves profitThe brink of what?re: aboveDo you even know what socialism is? It's not driven by money it must be...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- Why open source remains an ideological divide
- Oh that was superb.Open Source.Stand for something! :)you are ideological from the startIf you want to remove ideology from the equation your clearly state your needs - functionnal, commercial and technical support ... etc, and compare available solutions.Price might be a key factor and it might not; availability of srouce...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-07
- Behind the failure of OpenSourceWorld
- And yet..if the place was full you would be singing the praises of how popular and good OSS is. Surely even the OSS crowd could have got together for 1 day of the year to help generate the buzz around the software - a bit similar to seeing long lines...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-14
- Will all the good open source companies be acquired?
- So you think these vendors is all there is of FOSS?FOSS is not a bunch of companies selling goods, no, they are a lot of people developing software for anyone who cares to use it. Freedom and all that jazz, if you care at all about it.Visit the free software...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- 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,...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-29
- Vote for open source
- Vote for open sourceTalk about FAIL...Why do you need these kinds of desperate measures just to get something accepted when it is supposed to be so much better to begin with? Can't it stand on its own?OSS, the ultimate FAIL.Pathetic, really...OSS needs some form of affirmative actionEU should learn...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-22
- Open source shrugs at EU liability plans
- Open source shrugs at EU liability plansI've said it beforeFOSS companies should not worry.Having liabilities for the free speach makes no sense and would violate the constitution.Only propietary companies need to worry about it.RE: Open source shrugs at EU liability plansI agree with Dana; the current "exemption" by many software...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Your next software buying decision: zero cost?
- My piece about SugarCRM contains a line from Vinnie Mirchandani that's been ringing in my ears: "They're tiny." What's tiny about: Free edition 400,000 users 50,000 systems Commercial customers 100,000 users 5,000...
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- Moore's second law and software
- Moore's second law and softwareThen why are Open Source clones generally behind?I don't get how OSS helps your 2nd Moore's law analogy the least little bit.My observation is that OSS based software is generally in the catchup position, which is made easier because a lot of it is just cloning...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-02
- Enabling OSS Transformation With Data Federation
- Most Communications Service Providers CSPs are faced with complex OSS system architectures that have evolved over time. They were built by a variety of business groups such as IT departments and system integrators. In addition, some of these systems have been designed to support an organizational alignment on a particular...
- White papers 2009-04-01
- PC moment for open source may lack profit
- PC moment for open source may lack profitSince fewer people have what it takes to give others this "profit"...Or so I've read.great line[i]But even before then, ask what you can do for open source.[/i]I love the quote above.I would paraphrase JFK: Ask not what OSS can do for you, but...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-13
- Interview: Guillaume Nodet and Adrian Trenaman on Apache ServiceMix and role of OSGi in OSS clouds
- As SOA and open-source projects have already collided, and as OSGi is gaining favor as the container model de jour, it makes a great deal of sense to apply these software advances to the need for higher productivity and lower total costs on the business side. Open source on-premises enterprise...
- Blog posts 2009-02-13
- Will Pentagon take open source seriously?
- Will Pentagon take open source seriously?Its going to happen...There is a tremendous surge within the DoD Services and DISA/OSD to not only consume OSS but to also learn how to leverage the OSS dev model within their agencies and throughout the DoD. These conversations are at the executive level now...no...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-02
- McNealy's back and Obama's got him
- McNealy's back and Obama's got himSo government should go into the software business...... in order to reduce the number of jobs in the private sector, by making displacement products for its own use and that of others around the world.Which other large, essential, internationally successful business should the government compete...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-23
- Gartner doles out sobering predictions for open source use in the enterprise for next 5 years
- The economic slowdown should benefit open source software but whether open source software will benefit its owners is up in the air. That's according to Gartner Group predictions for 2009, which claims that over the next few years most enterprises using open source won't manage those assets correctly and most...
- Blog posts 2009-01-05
- How to get return BEFORE investment
- How to get return BEFORE investmentInteresting Phil, but..You dismissed the biggest challenge to your "rBi" proposal without giving a real argument: the prospect of setup and switching costs, which I know OSS people aren't supposed to talk about, because then OSS is all of a sudden not as cheap as...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-23
- No accounting software for Linux?
- The key issue in evaluating the open versus closed source argument with respect to mid range financial software is organizational philosophy, not software features - if you've got the skills, the courage, and the organizational support, open source is simply the smarter choice - and if you don't, it isn't....
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Which check to write? when open source means Jack
- Which check to write? when open source means JackBut what if it actually costs less to use Windows?I don't know in reality. It seems like most of the analysts out there seem to think it just doesn't matter that much which OS you use - though I would say...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-20
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