Open Source Software Goes to Work
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Businesses don&#39;t have to dump Windows to test drive free or low-price applications whose use may improve the bottom line. Sometimes the big software vendors act like their customers are locked into the proprietary products they sell.
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More open-source software for businesses: The Apache Software Foundation is launching a project for a Java process automation server.
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This is what the future looks like.  Heavy adoption of open source at the core of commercial software so that developers can focus on pushing the envelope on innovation, not reinventing wheels that provide no discernible differentiation.
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The success of the web browser Firefox has shown that open-source software can move from back-office obscurity to your home, and to your parents', too.
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Standardized open-source code for storage management is finally on its way, group announces.
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At work we're mostly an OSS shop.  Partly because I have a strong bias towards OSS but cost, reliability, security, etc are all leading factors.  For the last several months now I've been in an interesting position to prove the benefits of OSS in a real-world environment.  We've had to extend a number of OSS tools to fit into our production environment.  These are significant additions and non-trivial.  Open Source allows you to STAND on the shoulders of gods.  For example we've been having a problem with the Jakarta DBCP  connection pool.  It was running out of connections in highly threaded environments and is slow.  Certainly slower than would be necessary.  Long story short.  Last night  ...
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Open-source enterprise software developer OpenLogic wants open-source users to stand up and be counted in a worldwide census-- and is offering a new software tool to help the process.
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Still in stealth mode, a company looks to use open source to make it easier to build social applications on the Web.
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Marten Mickos knows the role open source software can play in business and personal computing.
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Ziff Davis - Opinion: Open-source software development may not be easy, and no one likes to air their dirty laundry, but in the end, it's the smartest way to make software.
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People are people, sang Depeche Mode.  But people adopt open source in very different ways, as I've seen at Alfresco.
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Travelers on the road from proprietary to open source software won&#39;t be driving on an Interstate. Enterprise open source deployments are still uncommon enough that companies
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2007 is shaping up to be a year for settling unfinished business in the open-source community.
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Open source software is a viable alternative to commercial proprietary software, with potential significant value-for-money benefits for government, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has concluded.
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Three proponents of the WS-Reliability standard late last week released messaging software based on the specification as open source.
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What happens to open source in a cloud-based computing world?  Or when the enterprise runs dry?
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More than a decade after Microsoft released final standalone version of MS-DOS, open-source version is here.