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- Project management software review: Open Workbench
- Microsoft Project many be the benchmark in project management software, but you can find effective open source and shareware alternatives. This Business Tech Review profiles Niku's Open Workbench project management application. This open source successor to Niku's Project Workbench offers a robust project planning and management package, but one that's...
- Tags: Shareware, Open Source, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Download resources 2005-04-15
- The FreeBSD Project: A Replication Case Study of Open Source Development
- Case studies can help to validate claims that open source software development produces higher quality software at lower cost than traditional commercial development. This case study of the FreeBSD project, a long-lived open source project, provides further understanding of open source development. The paper details a method for mining repositories...
- Tags: Colorado State University, FreeBSD, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers
- Creating and Managing an Open Source Project, Part 1
- The growing popularity of open source software benefits everyone. From simple utility classes to full-blown IDEs, it is hard to find a Java developer that is not using some open source piece nowadays, even though he/she may not be aware of it. By feeling open source has done a lot...
- Tags: Open Source
- White papers 2005-07-28
- Project management software review: GanttPV
- Microsoft Project many be the benchmark in project management software, but you can find effective open source and shareware alternatives. This Business Tech Review profiles the GanttPV open source project management application. This open source application has yet to reach its 1.0 release. As the review points out, GanttPV holds...
- Tags: Shareware, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Open Source, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Download resources 2005-04-15
- An explanation of the common underpinnings of a successful open source project
- This chapter download from Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project tries to show the structural underpinnings successful open source projects have in common. No longer viewed as a fringe phenomenon, open source software has firmly taken its place in today's business...
- Tags: O'Reilly Media Inc., Open Source Project, Open Source
- Book chapters 2005-12-22
- 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
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- Security certification for open-source projects
- Under a contract from the Department of Homeland Security, open-source projects are being certified for security. An excerpt from TechWorld: The programme, called the Open Source Hardening Project, is sponsored by the DHS and carried out by Coverity and Stanford University. Launched in March 2006, the...
- Tags: Security, Certification, Coverity, Open-source Project, Open Source, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Week in Open Source: June 13, 2008
- This week in open source, Microsoft apologized for its Sandcastle project, an OpenOffice vulnerability came to light, and the new iPhone is proving not much friendlier to open source developers. by Selena Frye
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Puppy Linux 4.00, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Selena Frye
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Project management software review: Project-XL
- Microsoft Project many be the benchmark in project management software, but you can find effective open source and shareware alternatives. This Business Tech Review profiles the Project-XL project management solution. This Excel-based solution allows project managers to produce a Gantt chart and track a project's budget and allocated resources. As...
- Tags: Shareware, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Download resources 2005-04-15
- Apache eyes open-source Java project
- article root[Edited by: admin on May 10, 2005 9:58 AM]Why open source JavaI do not understand the need to open source Java. Can anyone explain why it is needed?
- Tags: Apache Software Foundation, open source, open-source Java, programming, wkartchner
- Discussion threads 2005-05-10
- HP launches tool to track open-source software at work
- HP has launched an open-source initiative called the FOSSology Project. FOSSology is a software tool for tracking and monitoring the use of both free and open-source software in an organization, and it stems from in-house work at HP. According to the official Web site: We...
- Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Open-source Software, Tool, FOSSology, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Open Source, Management, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Open Source: Is It Just One Big Hack?
- A new phenomenon of Open Source Movement and Free Software has brought about a new revolution in the developer community. The latest buzz word in this field seems to be Open Source and almost everybody seems to be propagating the idea. This paper first gives an introduction as to what...
- Tags: Indian Institute Of Technology, Open Source
- White papers 2005-02-25
- Developing a Project With Oracle JDeveloper 10g and the Maven Plugin
- Maven is an open-source project development tool from the Apache Jakarta Project for building and managing Java projects; it integrates the capabilities of other open source development lifecycle tools such as Ant, Junit, and Jelly. A Maven project consists of a J2EE project file or an IDE-specific project file -...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle JDeveloper 10g, Open Source, Oracle JDeveloper, Maven, Java Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software
- White papers 2004-10-01
- A Business Case Study of Open Source Software
- This paper was prepared as part of The MITRE Corporation’s FY00 Mission-Oriented Investigation and Experimentation MOIE research project "Open Source Software in Military Systems. This paper analyzes the business case of open source software. It is intended to help Program Managers evaluate whether open source software and development methodologies are...
- Tags: Business Case, Software, Mitre Corp., Open-source Software, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Case studies 2001-07-01
- An explanation of the common underpinnings of a successful open source project
- No longer viewed as a fringe phenomenon, open source software has firmly taken its place in today's business world. A successful open source project will establish a sense of institutional permanence, supported by habits and procedures that are well understood by everyone who participates. This chapter download from Producing Open...
- Tags: Karl Fogel, O'Reilly Media Inc., open source, open-source software, Producing Open-Source Software, software, Successful Free Software Project, successful open source, underpinning, Web, Web site
- Download resources 2005-12-22
- Economist: Open source works best when half-closed
- [Found via Futurismic] The Economist takes a look at the successes and failures of the open source movement, and comes to this conclusion: "The most important thing holding back the open-source model, apparently, is itself." The article levels two basic indictments at open source: ...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, SourceForge, Open Source, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-03-21
- End of the road for openMosix
- Do you think that the ending of the openMosix project will have a major impact on the future of Open Source?RE: End of the road for openMosixLike many such projects in the Open Source community, if it has merit and there is demand for it, people will step up to...
- Tags: paulmah@..., openMosix Project, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-07-17
- 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
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