OSS offers cheaper, open source Windows alternative
Novell’s desktop solution costs up to 70% less to operate than the equivalent Microsoft products, says Open Systems Specialists, which resells the solution.
Novell’s desktop solution costs up to 70% less to operate than the equivalent Microsoft products, says Open Systems Specialists, which resells the solution.
There is still a lot of hesitancy among commercial users over taking on open source software, says Bill Roth.
Enterprising hardware hackers managed another coup recently, successfully installing a version of the open source DD-WRT firmware on the latest revision of the Linksys WRT54G wireless router.
The open source paradigm has changed the software market, but open source itself is becoming so established that it will be boring in five years, according to panellists at a recent conference held at the Computer History Museum, in California, last month.
Open source gives you choices. Not happy with commercial software? Try the open source alternative and work to add the features you need. If no open source project already exists, start your own. Chances are, others have the same itch and would be willing to help you scratch it.
The future of US government IT systems will include a big focus on converting old data into electronic form, two federal government IT leaders say.
Apple extended me the courtesy of meeting me the day after my column on the closing of the OS X x86 kernel source code (Computerworld, May 29) was published online.
Linux Australia and the Open Source Industry Association are urging the Australian federal government not to abandon market competition.
The development of open source application software for education is at the heart of the New Zealand Open Source Virtual Learning Environment (NZOSVLE) entry in this year’s Excellence in the use of IT in education tertiary and commercial category.
While users welcomed Sun Microsystems’ plan to release Java to open source, they say a lack of details about the announcement makes it difficult to determine the impact of whatever the company is aiming to do.
Among the biggest news stories at the recent JavaOne conference was Sun Microsystems’ long-awaited announcement that it will be releasing the industry-standard Java programming language under an open-source licence. Java expert Richard Hoffman put together this list of answers to frequently asked questions covering some of the basic history behind this decision, what it means and why you should care.
An open source software company is something of a paradox. On the one hand, it has to convince customers that software is becoming increasingly commoditised, that proprietary software is limiting and expensive, and that standards-based, community-developed and community-supported open source software is the way to go. On the other hand, an open source company has to persuade those same customers that they should pay for the use of that same software.
Sun Microsystems says it plans to open source Java, but said before it does so company officials have to be certain the move won't lead to diverging paths in the code.
Open source software is everywhere. But how does a large company — from its executive team down to its IT staff — figure out which open-source applications are right for its users and won’t endanger the core business?
Novell president and chief operating officer Ron Hovsepian sees the acquisition of the JBoss application server by Red Hat as having “further validated our early adoption of JBoss.”