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- Open Source Awards 2004: VideoLAN
- Streaming video used to be a very complicated endeavor requiring dedicated hardware and expensive software. One of the ways it has become a lot easier in the last couple of years is through the open source efforts of the VideoLAN project.The VideoLAN project is currently made up of two core...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Sean Michael Kerner, Sam, open source, VideoLAN, Clement Stenac, VideoLAN Project, Open Source Awards 2004, developer
- Technical articles 2004-01-15
- Open Source Awards 2004: Julian Seward for Valgrind
- If you've done any real programming, sooner or later you're going to find yourself in need of a good debugger. There's only so much you can do by inserting printf statements to spit out bits of debug text—eventually you have to roll up your sleeves and break out the debugger.For...
- Tags: Linux, UNIX, Processors, Operating systems, Rex Baldazo, Valgrind, Open Source Awards 2004, open source, Intel x86
- Technical articles 2004-01-15
- Open Source Awards 2004: Paul Davis for JACK
- What do you do when the only way to get audio out of one application and into another is by running a cable? If you’re an open source developer like Paul Davis, you start a community project.The Jack Audio Connection Kit JACK provides low latency, high efficiency interprocess audio connectivity,...
- Tags: Linux, Sean Michael Kerner, Jack Audio Connection Kit, Paul Davis, open source, Open Source Awards 2004
- Technical articles 2004-01-15
- Open Source Awards 2004
- The music industry has the Grammies. Hollywood has the Oscars. And now, the open source software community has the Open Source Awards.Okay, so the name isn't quite as catchy as, say, "Tony" or "Golden Globe," but then, that's the very nature of open source software—people toiling away in this industry...
- Tags: Builder Staff, music industry, open source, Open Source Awards 2004, Julian Seward, VideoLAN, medal
- Technical articles 2004-01-15
- Open Source Awards 2004: Pango
- Although the fact is generally glossed over by Web designers and application developers, not everyone on the World Wide Web uses English as their primary language. Not only do the languages vary; but, in many cases, the alphabet used to display text is altogether different. In this era of Internet-enabled...
- Tags: Mark Kaelin, Owen Taylor, PanGo Networks, open source, Open Source Awards 2004, open-source software
- Technical articles 2004-01-15
Additional Resources
- The Costs and Risks of Open Source
- Open source, including Linux, is being deployed by a majority of companies in 2004, yet we question whether customers are adequately prepared to deal with the costs and risks of managing these environments. The allure of free software is accelerating the deployment of open source platforms, but open source is...
- Tags: Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2004-04-12
- 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
- Open Source Security Myths Dispelled
- Is it risky to trust mission-critical infrastructure to open source software? Why should we pay an open source vendor when open source is supposed to be free? Will a shift to open source add complexity to our IT infrastructure? These questions all arise from open source myths...
- Tags: Open Source
- White papers 2007-09-25
- Not just another lame awards show
- The first of the year is marked by a flurry of awards shows rewarding supposedly extraordinary work in a chosen profession or field of endeavor. I find most of these shows to be self-serving and insincere. However, I have found one achievement award I can get behind fully --- the...
- Tags: Games, Productivity, Personal Technology, Mark Kaelin
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- Evaluating Open Source Software for Your Business
- This paper looks at the strange world of open source IT decision making that can get in the way of good decisions. The exuberant IT manager sees open source like found money or a snow day; if it's free and good, why bother with the evaluation? Let's just use it....
- Tags: Software, Open-source Software, Pathfinder Development, Open Source
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Open Source Strategies for Software Developers
- The benefits associated with open source software can be realized as long as there is a plan to mitigate any risks that are part of using open source products. The ubiquity of open source software is increasing. Whether used as a small tool for software development, or as the core...
- Tags: Software, Developer, Open-source Software, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management
- White papers
- Open source .NET development: Co-mingling open source and the .NET platform
- Imagine the power of running code created by Microsoft development tools on a Linux machine or including an open source component in a proprietary product. Chapter 2 of Open Source .NET Development, by Brian Nantz, will give you a high-level overview of the numerous large .NET/open source projects currently in...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET, Addison-Wesley, Open Source, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Book chapters 2004-11-23
- Open source .NET development: Co-mingling open source and the .NET platform
- Imagine the power of running code created by Microsoft development tools on a Linux machine or including an open source component in a proprietary product. Chapter 2 of Open Source .NET Development, by Brian Nantz, will give you a high-level overview of the numerous large .NET/open source projects currently in...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft .NET, development tool, Linux, open source, Open-Source .NET Development, tool
- Download resources 2004-11-23
- New open source standards defined
- open source standardIt is a good developement. We need to have a standard for all open source software. All open source communities should come together and form a international association. Define the standard.smanwww.browsetoknow.blogspot.com
- Tags: s-man, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-04-16
- Building an Open-Source WAN Router
- While open source has penetrated just about every niche of the IT landscape, open-source routing has been slow to take off. This is ironic, since open-source routing stacks have been available since the earliest days of the Internet. In spite of the relative availability of open-source networking components, closed-source products...
- Tags: Vyatta, Open Source
- White papers 2007-08-30
- Open Source Applications in the Enterprise
- Is open source ready for primetime? This webcast explores how Commercial Open Source is challenging and changing the enterprise software market. Through the webcast, the viewer will understand how open source technologies are being leveraged by companies both large and small.
- Tags: Webcast, SugarCRM, Open Source
- Webcasts
- Open ports in ISA 2004
- Our software requires our clients to have port 1935 open. I have two clients that use ISA 2004, neither of them can connect to our software.What steps need to be taken to ensure that a port is wide open on ISA 2004?Any help would be greatly appreciated.ISA GuidesThis is the...
- Tags: ISA, ISA 2004
- Discussion threads 2006-04-04
- Benchmark Results: Scalability of Alfresco Content Management System in a Unisys ES7000/one Enterprise Server Environment
- Alfresco is the leading Open Source alternative for enterprise content management. It couples the innovation of Open Source with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform. The Open Source model allows Alfresco to use best-of-breed Open Source technologies and contributions from the Open Source community to get higher quality software...
- Tags: Unisys Corp., Environment, Scalability, Alfresco, Open Source
- White papers 2007-12-01
- High Quality and Open Source Software Practices
- Surveys suggest that, according to various metrics, the quality and dependability of today's open source software is roughly on par with commercial and government developed software. What are the prospects for advancing to much higher levels of quality in open source software? More specifically, what attributes must be possessed by...
- Tags: Software, Quality, Open-source Software, Open Source
- White papers
- Economics of Open Source: The Motives and Methods Behind the Free Software That Is Challenging Market Leaders
- Open Source Software OSS is starting to be known as a viable alternative to traditional commercial software. OSS is being used in almost all fields. This paper aspires to explain the current surge of open source software through economic analysis and to provide insight to the recent success of the...
- Tags: Software, Open-source Software, Leader, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management
- White papers 2005-06-03
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