The cost advantages are clear, and most of the drawbacks to open source backup software have recently been eliminated.
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Network Security Concerns? Consider Open Source
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Open-source security from companies such as Untangle may offer a viable alternative.
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Beginning a FOSS Based Business and a Simple Broth
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As of yet I have seen no responses to the sentence, "I am providing ________ to _______and I want to be able to make $_______ per ____ providing this." So I will go with my first incarnation of my former Linux Migration Business. When I started I was not consulting, I was selling computers with Linspire Linux pre installed.
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What drives a mass Linux migration?
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Nothing warms the cockles of a Linux lover's heart more than to hear that X or Y big company/city is migrating its desktops to the free operating system. And nothing can evoke more bitter insults than the reversal of any such decision.
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Where's the Ubuntu Server Push?
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It’s far too early to press the panic button. But anecdotal evidence is mounting that Canonical’s server push hasn’t gained much momentum.
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European Union Backs Use of Open-Source Software
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The European Union's competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, delivered an unusually blunt rebuke to Microsoft on Tuesday by recommending that businesses and governments use software based on open standards. She called using open technology a "smart business decision".
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How's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Doing?
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One of the great things about the double-barrel open source software and fee-based subscription support strategy that commercial Linuxes have is that there is very little economic pressure on Linux shops to upgrade from one version of the platform to another as their Linux vendor (or vendors) tweak, change, upgrade, and improve their distros.
Read more »IBM Lotus Symphony turns old OOo code into enterprise Judas goat
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Oracle and now IBM seem to have strange ideas about creating a business around open source software for the enterprise. First it was Oracle's Unbreakable Linux program, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux sans its proprietary bits and supported for peanuts to beat RHEL and similar community projects such as CentOS.
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Sun SOA launch sucks in open source
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You remember SeeBeyond Technologies? Rather successful application integration company? Lots of really big customers and $140m in annual revenue? Purchased by Sun Microsystems in 2005 for the knockdown price of $387m.
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Open source Astaro security appliance installed at insurance company
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At Underwriters Safety & Claims, security abruptly rose to the top of IT Director Grant Nickle's to-do list late last fall when it became clear that the existing security system needed replacement.
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Suncorp envisages Linux, ODF for 20,000 desktops
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Suncorp's CIO, Jeff Smith, says he would like the banking and insurance giant to use open source software for its 20,000 desktops, which currently run Windows XP.
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Open Enterprise Interview: Bernard Dalle, Index Ventures
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The pragmatic and ethically-rooted world of free software might seem about as far away as possible from the highly abstract and, at times, morally dubious world of high finance. But as Richard Stallman has frequently pointed out, free software is by no means antithetical to making money: it's just a question of how you make money.
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Web developer practices open source but doesn't preach it
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Co-founders Jake St. Peter and Thomas Ingham started Coalmarch, a Web applications development company, in 2004 after "about 10 years' background in Web development" for other companies, St. Peters says. After working for a company called gotickets.com, he and his partner decided to launch their own business, providing content management systems and shopping carts.
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What is the ultimate goal of Linux?
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I think that everybody knows what Microsoft's goal is. It is the same answer that Brain gives to Pinky every night. I think that everybody knows what Apple's goal is, if you don't have an isomething then you are just not cool. That company makes it hip to be square (who is the artist of that song?). But how many people know what Linux's goal is?
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Are Cisco and Red Hat Getting Cozy?
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When Red Hat kicks off its big customer summit June 18 in Boston, the open source giant will bring along a rather large — and surprising — date: Cisco Systems Inc. Why does Cisco plan to hang out at one of the open source industry’s largest events? The VAR Guy has a few hunches.
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