Topic: Open Source Software

New Ubuntu Release Will Emphasize "Weblications"

If you're asking, "What's Ubuntu?" then listen up; the answer could be "the future of the PC." Ubuntu is a version of the open source Linux operating system, like RedHat [NYSE:RHT] and others, which has been ...READ»

Can You Build a Company from Free Code?

Hank Jones is a 23-year software and technology lawyer who's written widely about open source since 1999. Chip Rosenthal is an independent open-source software development consultant. Don Shafer, co-founder of the Athens Group, an ...READ»

Microsoft Directs TomTom to Drop Dead

At the end of February, Microsoft [MSFT] brought suit against GPS company TomTom [TOM2] for several patent infringements pertaining to TomTom's Linux-based GPS navigation software. Now the Linux community is preparing for a fight, ...READ»

Why Open Source will be hot now?

With the deepening of the credit crisis, melt down in the financial industry, the IT budgets in the big companies is under squeeze. Companies are looking at optimising their IT budgets and seriously looking at Return on their ...READ»

Open Source Gaining Ground in Southeast Asia

Read some posts, news items and press releases today about the growing adoption of open source in Southeast Asia:READ»

Making Money in Open Source

The folks over at Pingdom in their Royal Pingdom Blog have collected the financial information of some of the most popular open source software companies.READ»

Sun plans open source push

Sun has thrown its weight behind this month's Software freedome day 2008 and called the firms and consumers alike to embrace open source. Sun is calling on the open source community and its own staff to cooperate in a global ...READ»

Survive (and Thrive!) During these Tough Times with Open Source

Many business executives are looking for more ways to cut costs during these tough times and have a mandate to "do more with less." Open source software fits the bill perfectly as it has little or no upfront costs, licensing flexibility (often times you can install on as many PCs you want and for as much users as you need) , development flexibility (the source code and APIs can be customized, the platform and toolkits are readily available), and the fact that many open source projects actually have better and larger support communities than proprietary products.READ»

Inspired by Work

What's most intriguing about "open-source" software isn't what it does -- it's how it gets created. Eric S. Raymond, open-source evangelist, explains why and how these programmers do their work -- and what that means for the rest of us.READ»

The Once and Never King

The Linux desktop market is about eight years behind scheduleREAD»

I Ditched Windows...and, So Can You

I've suffered slow computer performance, system crashes, and inexplicable Internet outages for 10 long years. I officially ditched Windows two weeks ago...and, so can you. Long story short, I decided to find another operating ...READ»

Why Open Source is good for Academic Institutions?

Open Source with its promise of distributing source code and allowing anyone to modify it or derive other software from it, makes it an excellent choice for learning computer science, technology and engineering of ...READ»

Collaborating in the Pipeline

This week's Economist has a fascinating article that explores whether or not the open-source software movement can be applied to pharmaceutical drug development. The piece highlights two areas where such collaboration might be ...READ»

The Broad Wave of Open Source

Open Source is an exciting, dynamic drama on several fronts -- society, law, development (NOT just software), economics, organizational dynamics and motivation, purposefulness, generational culture, and more. From a background in ...READ»

2009: Year Of The Linux Revolution

As our software becomes more Web-centric and our devices cheaper, Linux is becoming the operating system on everyone’s lips for 2009. Sorry, Microsoft. If this week’s news is any indication, you’ve been served. The biggest ...READ»

He Changes Minds

Bob Young and the Red Hat Center hope to empower change agents in every industry, from every country, for every consumer touched by technology.READ»

Not Just for POTUS: The Defense Department Wants Some Open Source Too

We noted yesterday the way the White House was embracing open source principles with its switch to Drupal for its Web site, and today there's news that a different quarter of government is keen to go open: The Defense ...READ»

Exonovation: Leveraging the Innovation of Others

A few weeks back I was invited to attend an executive briefing on open, collaborative, community-based innovation. The speaker was Michael Tiemann, Vice President of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat. He titled his talk "Exonovation," to avoid the connotation the word "innovation", he says, has with internal organizational efforts at innovation. In his talk-he showed how organizations today (including his own company) are able to leverage the innovation of others to create sustainable competitive advantage that benefits not only themselves, but their community and industry ecosystem as a whole as well.READ»

Are You Ready for Linux?

It's tough. It's fast. It's free. It's Linux -- the most hyped operating system since OS/2. Tech heads love it, but does Linux really mean business? There's only one person who can answer that question: you.READ»

An Open Console Future

Those who follow the game industry track several on-going debates. One of the most vital points of contention is whether or not an industry future that replaces competing platforms (such as Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft's) with an ...READ»

Security in an Age of Openness

Google's mobile operating system, Android, is the most open platform yet. And that's not necessarily all a good thing. Here's why...READ»

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The Organizing Principle Of The 21st Century

Interesting article in Sunday's Los Angeles Times on the spread of open-source ideals, to religion, terrorism, and other far-flung realms. (Registration may be required.) The piece dwells too much on the basics--Linux, ...READ»

Doctors, Help Us Heal Ourselves

I just learned about a fascinating initiative in which 20 global health organizations and universities are working with IBM to see whether an open-source approach might help clip the wings of bird flu. Building on the work of Larry ...READ»

Job Morph: Herding Cats

How Mozilla motivates workers who aren't actually on the payroll.READ»

Optimizing Productivity

Powerful document management software, advanced CRM solutions, Open Source systems, and high definition videoconferencing can provide your staff with the tools and information they need to achieve shared goals and objectives. READ»