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- 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
- 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
- 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
- HP NonStop Open Source Software for Software Developers
- If one wants to develop software on an HP NonStop system or would like to inexpensively increase their Productivity and would like to take advantage of already ported software such as Samba, OpenSSH, and Apache then open source software is for them. This paper describes some of the open source...
- Tags: Software, Developer, Hewlett-Packard Co., Open-source Software, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management
- White papers 2005-10-01
- The Economics of Open-Source and Free Software
- The bottom line of this white paper is that open-source software does not rely on altruistic or starving programmers to succeed, and open-source software will succeed for certain kinds of software. Open-source software is not going to be the only way that software ever is written though. Open-source software is...
- Tags: Software, Open-source Software, Dwyer Economics, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management
- White papers 1999-05-05
- Security Engineering and Open Source Software Development
- Open source projects usually do not define tasks and workflows explicitly in contrast to the closed source software business. However, this does not mean that security related quality assurance and maintenance does not happen. The paper wants to make open source software more secure by learning how secure systems are...
- Tags: Software, Open-source Software, F/OSS, Freie Universitat Berlin, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Security, Management
- White papers 2008-01-27
- GlassFish v2: Open for Business
- Open-source software is becoming a very attractive choice for a lot of companies and their in-house developers. That's because the community can freely acquire and upgrade the source code for open-source software. This usually means that the software improves at a much faster rate than does proprietary software, and the...
- Tags: Software, Open-source Software, Project GlassFish, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- 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
- 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
- Dictatorships catching up with Web 2.0
- Go to the source.This just illustrates the increasing importance of open source software. In a world where even supposedly secure services, such as an encrypted voice over IP service like Skype, can be compromised directly through corporate deals with tyrannical governments, the only way to avoid such oppressive and...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., open-source software, software, apotheon, dictatorships, security, open source, encryption, networking, politics, Web, Web 2.0
- Discussion threads 2007-02-02
- 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
- TechNet Webcast: Linux and Open Source Software: A Technical Perspective and Overview (Level 300)
- This webcast offers a look at Linux and open-source software from the Microsoft Linux and Open Source Technology Analysis Center. The presenter of this webcast walks through the open-source stack, including the Linux kernel. He also discusses trends in the marketplace and provides perspective on how Microsoft views Linux and...
- Tags: Webcast, Open-source Software, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software
- Webcasts 2006-03-01
- "Infectious" Open Source Software: Spreading Incentives or Promoting Resistance?
- Some free or open source software infects other software with its licensing terms. Popularly, this is called a viral license, but the software is not a computer virus. Popular open source software, including the GNU/Linux operating system, uses a license with this feature. This paper assesses the efficacy of broad...
- Tags: Software, Incentive, Open-source Software, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Sales, Management
- White papers 2005-04-23
- Developing an Open Source Strategy to Accelerate Software Development
- Open Source software can accelerate software development and cut costs. Today there are billions of lines of open source freely available for download off the Internet, and developers are especially good at finding code to reuse. Then, again, unmanaged open source can introduce issues and business risks. Some open source...
- Tags: Software, Software Development, Black Duck Software, Open Source
- Webcasts 2008-08-30
- Predicts 2006: The Effects of Open-Source Software on the IT Software Industry
- Open source is entering the mainstream. IT organizations will shift to a strategy of maximizing the value of open source, while maintaining control of their high-level technology strategies.
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Open-source Software, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Open Source, Management
- White papers 2005-11-28
- 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
- Your Open Source Strategy
- Enterprises are intrigued by open source software -- but stymied by myths of cost, support, and risk. Smart firms will master these myths to get the open software stack they want. Large companies are running open source software. Why? Because they believe open source does the job at a lower...
- Tags: Software, Open-source Software, Forrester Research Inc., Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Source Code Organizer PS (exe)
- Developed for software developers, Source Code Organizer PS is your library for organizing and storing all your software source code. It doesn't matter what type of language you program in, Source Code Organizer PS will keep it safe and secure until you need to use it again. It has several...
- Tags: Software, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2007-04-27
- 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
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