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Free software: Can it be as good as products you pay for?: At home, on a lowly field engineer's income, I have to make the most of free software. OpenOffice is a good package for general home usage, AVG AntiVirus consistently outperforms Norton, and IOBit's Advanced Windows Care and SmartDefrag keep my laptop running smoothly. The open-source movement seems to go...; Tags: Norton Co., Antivirus, Open-source Movement, Tools & Techniques, OpenOffice, Viruses And Worms, Security, Open Source, Management, Office Suites, Software, Jeff Dray; Blog posts 2007-11-21
Open source reshaping services market: Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, open-source movement, open source, software, open-source software; Technical articles 2005-01-10

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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
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
Patches not a solution for Vista design problem: Will Linux and Open Source be a viable answer?Has Linux and the Open Source movement arrived just in time to preserve our rights to own, not rent media?; Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, learush@..., patch management, Microsoft Windows Vista; Discussion threads 2007-08-13

The Open Source Revolution: The open source movement has been one that has caused much debate and controversy over recent years. After all, it was open source products that caused the music industry to have to radically review its path to market and to attempt incredibly difficult legal action when it realised that these...; Tags: Open Source Movement, Peer To Peer (P2P), Open Source, Internet; White papers 2006-09-01
Movement Detector (zip): The Movement Detector application was designed to identify movement in images captured live from common Video for Windows source camera. It can capture images 320*240 and compares. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Image, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing; Software downloads 2008-01-23
Move Capture (zip): An open-source Delphi program that detects movement and saves JPEG images to disk or emails them to your account, like CCTV requires Web cam. Monitors Web cam to detect movement between camera frames.; Tags: disk, camera, open source, e-mail; Software downloads 2006-10-28
Microsoft begins testing Exchange 12: Microsoft released the first test version of Exchange 12, the next iteration of its e-mail and calendar server software. According to Microsoft, Exchange 12 has new unified messaging abilities--users will be able to use the telephone to access their e-mail and have it read to them by the computer--and is...; Tags: beta, Exchange, Exchange 12, it management, microsoft, Microsoft Corp., open source, servers, software, Sonja Thompson; Discussion threads 2005-12-14
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
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
Open Source Yourself: The other day I came across a website called OpenHuman. OpenHuman is: ... is a place to be as open as possibleTell the most dicreet and interesting stuff about yourself without hurting anyone elsePut your naked pictures (not pornographic or erotic, just naked)Confess how open you areDont forget, no...; Tags: OpenHuman, open source; Blog posts 2006-11-09
Is open source the right model for your company's applications?: Open-source software has matured over the past few years and has made a lot of inroads into virtually all types of businesses. Some of the most secure businesses are banks, as a result of them having what everyone wants most, which is namely money. Open-source software helps some...; Tags: Software, Open-source Software, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management, Andy Moon; Blog posts 2008-04-02
Are BOTs aided by Open-Source model?: Dave Marcus ofMcAfeeÂ’s Avert Labs says that developers of malicious software includingTrojans and bots are benefiting from the open-source development model. Apparently developers of the Agobot malwarefamily are using CVS ConcurrentVersions System to manage source file and collaborateÂ—this greatlyincreases the speed at which updates can be propagated and modificationschecked/tested.A...; Tags: bot, McAfeeÂ, open source; Blog posts 2006-07-28
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
Have you Considered Open Source Software?: It is time to take a hard look and open source software. It wasnÂ’t so long ago that proprietary solutions such as UNIX andWindows ruled the land but now more and more critical systems are beingrun by open source software. One of the main reasons to look at open source...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, software, open-source software; Blog posts 2006-04-10

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