Open source software still growing up
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Never mind the width... When it comes to software, "quality" seems to be winning over "free" if Evans Data Corp's latest sampling of the development community's pulse is anything to go by.â¦
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Gone are the days when free software could blithely ignore what was happening in the world of proprietary code.  The two approaches are now inextricably intertwined as more and more users and companies choose to run both.  One paradoxical consequence of this is that as free software becomes more widely deployed, Microsoft's impact on it becomes greater.  Against this background, a recent shift in Microsoft's public statements about open source assumes a particular importance.
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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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Sometimes being open aids competitors, but the benefit to customers keeps Linux vendor committed to open source.
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Following up on the success of the Firefox open source Web browser, released by the Mozilla Foundation last fall, open source software developers are readying some new products aimed at a consumer market still dominated by proprietary software.
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Ziff Davis - Linux and open source are at the heart of today's computing technology. Deal with it.
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Ziff Davis - The competition between open-source and proprietary software promises to be the most significant force in IT over the next decade.
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Research: Businesses are going open source, but OS may still be too technical for most users. The open-source operating system Linux may be gaining a lot of ground in the enterprise space, but Windows will
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New users are making their way to Linux and open source, one acronym at a time.
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Though the release is technically a preview, the 1.0 version is a significant milestone for the open-source browser software, which has already won an enthusiastic following as an alternative to Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer.
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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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Adoption of standalone open source software is accelerating, say researchers.
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Schools will increase spending on open-source software by 2012, but that doesn't mean proprietary software will be left in the dark, according to a new report
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Like many, I was pretty shocked by the recent Microsoft-EU deal to settle the long-running investigation into interoperability issues.  This was not so much because of the way Microsoft has used every kind of delaying tactic it could before eventually agreeing (for the nth time) to try harder in the future.  My real dismay was provoked by the gap between appearance and reality â a chasm that I think bodes ill for the future of open source. read more
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - The fragmented  software  business is growing up.
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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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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.