Results of a recent poll show that the stagnant economy may be leading more organizations to adopt open-source software to save on licensing fees, according ot the Open Solutions Alliance. Customers also are concerned about interoperability between open-source software and Microsoft Windows.
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Ribbit Going To BT for $105 Million: Will the APIs Stay Open?
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Back in April, we covered Internet telephony startup Ribbit's integration with Salesforce.com's on-demand customer relationship management applications. There, we covered Ribbit's open APIs for delivering services such as making and receiving calls in on-demand applications, recording and saving messages and more.
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Unique Marriage Proposal Ideas, Marriage Proposal Services By Your Hand In Marriage
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We provide marriage proposal services including unique marriage proposal ideas. We will tell you the various romantic ways to propose and make that moment very special for both of you.
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Customer demand adds Linux to industrial computer line
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Glacier Computer is offering two Linux distributions as options on its Everest PCs. The company announced this month it is offering customers a choice of IGEL Linux or Fedora Linux distributions.
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OSCON, Pt. 4.2: openSUSE's Eleventh Hour (And Twelfth, And Thirteenth...)
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Aside from having one of the niftier names in the industry, Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier has a pretty nifty job, too: He's the openSUSE Community Manager atNovell (NSDQ: NOVL), where he oversees the folks that help make what will ultimately turn into the next version of SUSE Linux Enterprise.
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How Dell is making Ubuntu more attractive
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Dell was the first of the major computer manufacturers to support pre-installed Linux, but it's not just pre-installing Linux. The Austin, Tex. company is also adding functionality to Ubuntu Linux on its desktops and laptops.
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BT joins enterprise open source community
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BT has joined FossBazaar, an enterprise open source community and workgroup of the Linux Foundation.
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Is OpenSolaris in hot water?
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Here's how it works: Novell owns Unix's IP (intellectual property). SCO sold Unix's IP to Sun. Sun then included some Unix IP into Solaris. Finally, Sun open sourced Solaris as OpenSolaris. Sounds like trouble, doesn't it?
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Microsoft supports Apache Foundation
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"It seems Microsoft has contributed some money to the Apache Foundation. Unbelievable? [...] And, finally? Of course, they transform into a Free Software company. Which they will have to do, in any case. And with the money and user base they have, they can easily drive the others, such as Red Hat and SuSE out of business or at least become the dominant FS company. Not likely? Who can say?
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Intel releases Moblin into the wild
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Big tech companies don't always mean what they say when they make promises about open source.
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As a CSO, one of your top priorities is probably to keep your company off the front page of the news. Is it inexcusable to have laptops in the field with unencrypted hard drives? With such new open source solutions as TrueCrypt, there are few excuses left: All laptops must be fully encrypted.
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Ubuntu Netbooks vs. Mobile Internet Devices: What’s the Difference?
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Sorry if I’m the only person who’s confused about Canonical’s mobile Linux strategy. The company has at least two Ubuntu software projects — one for Netbooks, the other for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) — that sound strikingly similar. So what’s the difference between Ubuntu for Netbooks and Ubuntu for MIDs? Canonical gave me some answers during OSCON 2008.
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Canonical: Ubuntu Server Software Blitz At LinuxWorld
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Canonical is preparing an Ubuntu Server blitz at LinuxWorld Expo in August. Alfresco, IBM, Openbravo, Zimbra and others are expected to rally around Ubuntu Server at the conference, The VAR Guy learned during meetings at OSCON. Here’s the scoop, and the implications for Ubuntu partners.
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IBM nears a decade of Linux and open source
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After nearly a decade of active involvement in open source, IBM's commitment to Linux is broad and deep, said Inna Kuznetsova, the director of IBM Linux strategy. This vision of IBM's rapport with Linux is shared by most, but not all, IBM observers.
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Free and Open Source Software vs. Cloud Computing
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Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see the point of proprietary network services (or cloud computing, or Software as a Service, if you prefer). Not when you have Free software as an alternative (“Free,” in this case, being analogous to open source or GNU/Linux).
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