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Acquia ties success to growth of Drupal

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In the last year, a growing number of companies based on free and open source software (FOSS) have come out of stealth mode. One of the latest is Acquia, which provides services for organizations that use Drupal, the popular content management platform.

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Installing The Open Source Ticket Request System (OTRS) On Fedora 8

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This document describes how to set up the Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) on Fedora 8. Taken from the OTRS page: "OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System (also well known as trouble ticket system) with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc.

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Waiting on the HP Linux desktop

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I would have liked to have been able to tell you in great detail exactly what desktops and laptops will soon be coming from Hewlett-Packard equipped with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.

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A Day in the Sun

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Bernard Golden had lunch with Simon Phipps, Sun's open source point man, during which Phipps noted that one of Sun's major challenges for its open source-forward strategy is that many existing customers are uncomfortable using software that does not require a licensing fee, That's true even when Sun explains the company is happy to take money from them, just that the fee is for support services.

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Linux tries not to bea victim of its own success

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When open source software pioneer Linus Torvalds first posted the Linux source code on an internet newsgroup site in 1991, he was clear about its terms of use: no one should be able to make money from Linux, he said.

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Novell chief: We helped Microsoft be more open

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To many outsiders and to numerous sections of the open-source community, Novell's decision to make a deal with Microsoft in 2006 to avoid litigation around Linux was motivated by desperation.

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Sun’s Small Business Server Push Includes Ubuntu Linux

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Ubuntu Linux is moooovin’ on up in the Linux server neighborhood. When Sun announced a major open source initiative targeting small and midsize businesses this week, a lot of people failed to realize that Sun would include servers certified for Ubuntu. Here’s the scoop.

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IT managers can turn to peers at CMG for solutions

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Making changes to your existing infrastructure is fraught with decisions. What's the best way to consolidate servers? How can we better manage the resources we have? How will the changes we're planning impact service and performance?

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After a year of open source, Second Life looks ahead

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A year has passed since Linden Lab, maker of the popular 3-D virtual world Second Life, released the source code to its Second Life viewer under the GNU GPL. In that time, a viable community of developers has grown up around the SL code, and the company is pleased enough with the success that it has branched out further into open source and open standards.

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It's A Support Thing -- Or: One Throat To Choke

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Last year, word swirled in the air that Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) would be the next big PC vendor after Dell (Dell) to add support for Linux on desktops. So far the official word remains muted, in the realm of "we're exploring options, we'll make an announcement when the time is right", but the guesses now center around HP providing SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop as its distro of choice.

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Red Hat takes the open source security challenge

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One big hole for open source lies in security. It’s not a real hole. It’s a meta-hole. But we still view it as a hole, so it’s a hole.

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Google wants to fill in the TV white spaces

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Google is planning a conference call with journalists on Monday to discuss a company filing with the FCC regarding the use of unused portions of the TV spectrum band, known as white spaces.

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HP to ship SuSE on India PCs

http://www.channelregister.co.uk

"HP has agreed to pre-install Novell's Linux distribution on some of its notebook and desktop range in India. However, the computer maker said it currently has no plans to extend that deal to EMEA."

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Open-Source Technology in Digital Signage

http://www.cookingwithlinux.com

Open Source empowers. This article describes some of the facts, outlines how EnQii, the Digital Signage company where the author is Chief Technology Officer, is benefiting from OSS, and outlines how in the future, OSS will be increasingly used.

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Created by wftl 16 years 28 weeks ago
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Open source: It's time to get down to business

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IT vendors are trying to make the open-source process better for business users. There's still work to do.

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