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Open Source Insider
The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise.
October 2011
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Justifying the commercial license for open source
28 Oct 2011 -
Following the open source (and beer) trail through Europe
26 Oct 2011 -
Joomla! CMS: from ecommerce portals to the parish church & pancakes
21 Oct 2011
How do companies now continue to justify the open source model and validate their option to sell a commercially provided service, support and maintenance package in this space?
Beer and open source software go together well it seems. As a general statement that must surely be true anyway; but more specifically, as soon as Nokia Qt DevDays has ended today the Linux ...
Open source content management system (CMS) Joomla! has recently surpassed the 25 million downloads mark and listed more than 225,000 registered developers at the joomlacode.org website.
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When open source community programming doesn't work
19 Oct 2011 -
Free software testing on USB for students to web developers
17 Oct 2011 -
Ubuntu Linux 11.10 is the "Oneiric Ocelot"
14 Oct 2011 -
Ubuntu 11.10 released, DevOps now distilled (and defined)
13 Oct 2011 -
Linux Foundation: Putin mandates for government Linux use by 2015
11 Oct 2011 -
Rackspace donates OpenStack to community foundation status
07 Oct 2011 -
Does "open storage" put the hardware factor into open source?
06 Oct 2011
Comment has been circulating in certain web-driven circles relating to the size of some open source projects. The subject in discussion is centred on projects that (allegedly) suffer from too small ...
Mantra, or to use the original Tibetan script སྔགས, is built/based on Mozilla's Firefox web browser (so it's cross platform) and can be taken "anywhere" on any rewritable media including memory ...
Continuing the quirky naming culture of the release programme for the Ubuntu open source operating system, Ubuntu Linux 11.10 is the "Oneiric Ocelot".
Canonical: new clarity for the development-deployment dialogue and process
LinuxCon Europe is being held later this month in Prague as you may already know. In celebration of this fact, the Linux Foundation has this week welcomed seven new European members under its ...
News has circulated last night and today concerning Rackspace's 'donation' of the Intellectual Property (IP) pertaining to the OpenStack project to a newly formed community-based foundation level ...
OpenStorage provider Nexenta Systems is aiming to use its forthcoming appearance at VMworld Europe later in October to showcase its so-called 'Hands on Lab' (HOL) demos
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The open source code "provenance" audit concept
04 Oct 2011 -
Emerging market "informação" fuelling Open Virtualization Alliance
03 Oct 2011
The software industry has developed tools to uncover the provenance of code and provide a means of auditing data and content in open source software projects.
Savant Tecnologia da Informação is just one of the names reportedly helping the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) to swell its ranks just now. The open virtualisation consortium has said that OVA ...