open source alternatives

It turns out that pirated software can also hurt the open-source community. When stolen proprietary software is used by consumers, that's a lost opportunity ...

Not mere freeware, but open-source alternatives are well-known for nearly every major category of software. firefox and linux are probably the most famous, ...

By Susan J. Campbell The Open Solutions Alliance has completed its first annual survey of its membership and other open source software and services ...

Open-source vendors VA linux and Red Hat enjoyed massive IPOs...IPOs that quickly fell back to earth. Before we got to that point, however, someone came up ...

By Darryl K. Taft The Open Web Foundation launches at OSCON with a focus on keeping open source community efforts open and unfettered. PORTLAND, Ore. ...

VIA has contracted Harald Welte to be the company's open source liaison. VIA has had a chequered past in working with the open source community. ...

Specifically, analyst Jack Gold says the open Symbian and open Android operating systems should combine into a single open source operating system for ...

IT budgets are being cut 5-15% every year, writes Bernard Golden, while open source is being mentioned in 5-15% of the job ads out there. ...

Josh Berkus is primarily known as one of the Core Team of the world-spanning open source database project PostgreSQL. He has been involved with various open ...

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Bill Snyder examines what appears to be an open source job market boom, as evidenced by a recent O'Reilly Report. ...

The basic idea behind open source, a fledging model employed in the software industry, is very simple : When programmers can read, redistribute, ...

Yahoo's Zimbra launches version 3 of its open source desktop email client this morning that is designed to compete with Outlook, mozilla Thunderbird, ...

open source software is a significant security risk for corporations that use it because in many cases, the open source community fails to adhere to minimal ...

Yahoo's Zimbra launches an open source desktop email client this morning that is designed to compete with Outlook, mozilla Thunderbird, Mac Mail, etc. ...

In the post titled Open Sourcing The MMO Game, Stropp poses a most interesting question: "Why Don't Publishers open source Their Defunct MMO Games? ...

Tarrytown, NY (PRWEB) July 24, 2008 -- Hosting companies can leverage the value and functionality of open source software to bring enterprise-class ...

by Steve Ragan - Jul 24 2008, 11:18 Open-source software is now seen in more than half of enterprises, and its use is only growing according to new research ...

By Anshu Shrivastava In spite of an economy hit hard by recession, it seems open source companies can expect year-over-year increase in revenue of open ...

BT has joined FossBazaar, an enterprise open-source community and workgroup of the linux Foundation. The communications and IT giant has already been a ...

At OSCON, a top software architect questions Microsoft's relevance as linux and open source march on into the enterprise and the overall computing landscape ...

To be fair, the open-source community has lost its share of high-profile developers to Microsoft, but the difference is that they go to Microsoft to teach ...

... said this week that the company's lack of a strong research-and-development core sparked its decision to turn its mobile platform into an open source. ...

Louis Suarez-Potts, who is community manager for Open Office, suggested that many users disdain open source because they can get proprietary titles "for ...

InfoWorld's Bill Snyder has a nice story about the rising demand for open source skills in the enterprise. Bill is quoting from open source in the ...

By Darryl K. Taft Vendors such as Black Duck Software and Intel show their support for open source software at OSCON. PORTLAND, Ore. ...

In one particular area, however, open source shines, in my opinion: The ability to reduce lock-in to a particular vendor. The report suggests: There is ...

I've written on this before, but I'm increasingly of the mind that open-source developers appreciate the excellence of Apple's products, and like the Mac's ...

The market for open-source databases is booming due to new workloads such as RFID projects, rich web applications and small portals, ...

I get the impression that open source projects are a bit slow on the uptake here? Which open source video conversion apps take full native advantage of SMP? ...

open source is changing the rules about how software is designed, created and distributed. But leadership isn't always nearly as innovative. ...

Roughly ten years after IBM first started dabbling with linux in earnest, it has built up an impressive track record of open-source involvement. ...

It turns out that pirated software can also hurt the open-source community. When stolen proprietary software is used by consumers, that's a lost opportunity ...

I get the impression that open source projects are a bit slow on the uptake here? Which open source video conversion apps take full native advantage of SMP? ...

Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to the Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business ...

The most salient point for me is that firefox is gaining market share because it is better, not because it's open source. Firefox, then, is a classic ...

Is the availability and usefulness of open source support lagging behind its desirability? That's one of the messages that it's possible to get from a new ...

The Free Software Directory is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The project was started in September of 1999, and UNESCO joined our effort in April of 2003. We catalog useful free software that runs under free operating systems — particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants.
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The case for a developing country to adopt an open source software (OSS) driven Information Technology strategy is a compelling one. In a wider context IT is about the production, flow and control of information in a modern state and the rules which govern such activities are thus fundamental to its economic development. Software is a driver of those rules. OSS under these circumstances cannot be viewed as a mere product choice. It reflects more fundamentally an alternative strategy for building, maintaining and changing the rules that govern information flows in the economy.
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