Canonical and IBM have announced the release of a new virtual appliance of IBM’s DB2 Express-C database software, the free community edition of IBM's DB2, running on the Ubuntu cloud platform
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VMware, Zimbra Open Source Set to Attack Microsoft Exchange August 1
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VMware and Zimbra are preparing to launch an open source attack against Microsoft Exchange, starting on August 1. The effort will ultimately include thousands of VMware partners. Here are the details.
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50 Open Source Replacements for Popular Financial Software
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For our list of open source financial tools, we cast a wide net and included applications related to enterprise resource management, point-of-sale and even employee time tracking. Not to mention traditional accounting and financial management tools.
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Is OpenStack Cloud Computing Rocket Science?
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There’s a real explosion of cloud platforms and management tools, it seems you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one these days. In the commercial proprietary solutions space you have – CA’s 3Terra AppLogic, Enomaly, Nimbula, RightScale. In open source there are Eucalyptus, Cloud.com, Open Nebula and Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. There are a bunch more that I failed to mention.
Read more »Canonical Seeks Ubuntu Cloud Wins at HostingCon
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At first glance, Canonical will spend most of this week promoting Ubuntu at OSCON, the open source convention. But take a closer look and you'll discover Canonical and Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Edition surfacing at HostingCon in Austin, Texas. Here's why.
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TaskJuggler: a tutorial
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TaskJuggler is a complete project management solution in that you can use it right from the planning stage through to project completion. It offers comprehensive reports and makes it easy to manage tasks, costs and resources.
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SugarCRM 6 Debuts with Open Source and Commercial Features
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After four months of beta availability and testing, SugarCRM today officially announced the general availability of its Sugar 6 CRM customer relationship management platform. Sugar 6 includes an open source community edition as well as commercially licensed professional and enterprise editions.
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Red Hat Ignores Desktops - Consumer or Enterprise Whatsoever
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We had been running CentOS 5.2 on dozens of our office-desktops. They were boringly stable though little obsolete. Finally I wanted to upgrade my system to the latest v.5.5 so as to use some of the updated packages including Firefox 3.5 and OpenOffice 3.
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Open Source Business Models Become More Attractive
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The news that Kenneth Bosung had joined OpenGeo as senior VP might have seemed like little more than a glorified press release to some. But there was an interesting twist there - Bosung had spent his entire career thus far with proprietary software companies.
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Linux Oz head builds open-source SBR link
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The SBR enables businesses and reporting professionals to lodge government forms such as tax returns and BAS electronically across multiple government departments.
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Ubuntu's "Free" Ride Into the Enterprise
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That Linux is a significant player in the enterprise comes as no surprise: Enterprise customers are a lot easier from which to generate revenue.
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Many companies distributing open source software don't know it
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Too many companies have no idea that they're distributing open source software and therefore violating the GPL, a survey by OpenLogic found.
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5 popular open source eCommerce platforms
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There are so many off-the-shelf web solutions out there, many website owners are asking: Why should I bother building it myself? When thinking about their eCommerce platform, a site owner faces three key choices: the Software as a Service hosted solution, download and install an open source or purchased solution, or just build it yourself.
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OpenGamma -- financial analytics and risk management platform
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OpenGamma is developing an Open Source financial analytics and risk management platform for anyone actively trading in global markets. The OpenGamma Platform provides a modern, open architecture for building analytic solutions to end users in trading and risk management.
Read more »Profiting from open source -- 8 business models
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So you want to make a small fortune in open source software? It's simple, the joke goes: Just start with a large fortune. The open source revolution began at least two decades ago, but businesses and programmers are still struggling to understand the best way to share wonderful code and pay the mortgage.
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