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Survey: Open Source Companies Favor Collaboration, Expect Increase ... - TMCnet
24 Jul 2008 at 12:18pm
SYS-CON MediaSurvey: Open Source Companies Favor Collaboration, Expect Increase ...TMCnet - 41 minutes agoBy Anshu Shrivastava In spite of an economy hit hard by recession, it seems open source companies can expect year-over-year increase in revenue of open ...Open Solutions Alliance Announces Survey Results SYS-CON MediaOpen Source Survey Finds Optimism, Interoperability TMCnetall 6 news articles

Making sense of the open source job boom - InfoWorld
24 Jul 2008 at 12:06pm
Making sense of the open source job boomInfoWorld, CA - 54 minutes agoInfoWorld's Bill Snyder has a nice story about the rising demand for open source skills in the enterprise. Bill is quoting from Open Source in the ...O'Reilly's Latest Report Shows Continued Open-Source Growth OStaticThe open source jobs boom InfoWorldall 3 news articles

Is open source hurt by piracy? - ZDNet
24 Jul 2008 at 11:52am
Is open source hurt by piracy?ZDNet - 1 hour agoLouis Suarez-Potts, who is community manager for Open Office, suggested that many users disdain open source because they can get proprietary titles ?for ...Ingres gives Fortify security study a good fisking ZDNetall 2 news articles

Senior Microsoft developer dumps Redmond to embrace open source - CNET News
24 Jul 2008 at 10:10am
Senior Microsoft developer dumps Redmond to embrace open sourceCNET News, CA - 2 hours agoTo be fair, the open-source community has lost its share of high-profile developers to Microsoft, but the difference is that they go to Microsoft to teach ...

Open Source MMO - Warcry.com
24 Jul 2008 at 9:33am
Open Source MMOWarcry.com - 3 hours agoIn the post titled Open Sourcing The MMO Game, Stropp poses a most interesting question: "Why Don't Publishers Open Source Their Defunct MMO Games? ...News for nerds, stuff that matters Slashdotall 2 news articles

Y! My Web - eWeek
24 Jul 2008 at 9:02am
Y! My WebeWeek,  NY - 3 hours agoAt OSCON, a top software architect questions Microsoft?s relevance as Linux and open source march on into the enterprise and the overall computing landscape ...Intel to Update Open-Source Platform TMCnetMySQL: Back to Its Roots via Sun InternetNews.comIntel says Moblin update coming soon The Industry Standardall 16 news articles

Does open-source software mean instant security problems? - The Tech Herald
24 Jul 2008 at 8:41am
The Tech HeraldDoes open-source software mean instant security problems?The Tech Herald, IN - 4 hours agoby Steve Ragan - Jul 24 2008, 11:18 Open-source software is now seen in more than half of enterprises, and its use is only growing according to new research ...

BT joins enterprise open-source community - ZDNet UK
24 Jul 2008 at 7:00am
BT joins enterprise open-source communityZDNet UK, UK - 5 hours agoBT has joined FossBazaar, an enterprise open-source community and workgroup of the Linux Foundation. The communications and IT giant has already been a ...BT launches open source web site, joins FOSSBazaar Current IT news from heise onlineall 2 news articles

Hosting Companies and Open Source a "Match Made in Heaven" - PR Web...
24 Jul 2008 at 4:04am
Hosting Companies and Open Source a "Match Made in Heaven"PR Web (press release), WA - 8 hours agoTarrytown, NY (PRWEB) July 24, 2008 -- Hosting companies can leverage the value and functionality of open source software to bring enterprise-class ...

What happens when open source turns out to be better? Much better? - CNET News
23 Jul 2008 at 3:14pm
InternetNews.comWhat happens when open source turns out to be better? Much better?CNET News, CA - 21 hours agoThe most salient point for me is that Firefox is gaining market share because it is better, not because it's open source. Firefox, then, is a classic ...Ubuntu man challenges open source to out-pretty Apple RegisterUbuntu Founder: Open Source Linux Could Rival Apple TMCnetDesktops More Beautiful Than Apple's? Techtree.comeWeek - Computerworldall 37 news articles