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The good news? Gartner says that 100 percent of businesses will be using opensource within the next 12 months. The bad news? Gartner doesn’t really seem to understand opensource licensing requirements, and is trying to scare companies into adding bureaucracy around opensource adoption. According to Gartner, companies need to “adopt and enforce [...]
Just a few years ago, using opensourcesoftware was a major "no no" at most major corporations, including my own. However, the software world has changed so dramatically that opensourcesoftware is now part of almost any corporate...
The next course I signed up for is one that helps me prepare for my future role in the Consumer Online International business group in Microsoft. (the COI, as we call it). This course is an approach to OpenSourceSoftware. OSS evolves faster and is more adaptive to local markets than other technologies. Given [...]
FOSS.IN is one of the world's largest Free and OpenSourceSoftware (FOSS) events, held annually in India. The event is highly focussed on FOSS development and contribution.
Open-source? Freeware? Which is it? Some people frequently interchange the terms as a generic way to say that a piece of software costs nothing to download or use. I mean, it's all free, right? Wrong! Open-sourcesoftware has as much to do with freeware as an apple has to do with an orange. Both are fruits, but each offers a different enough of a texture and...
After the success of Open Everything London a few weeks ago, we’re now involved in putting on Open Everything Berlin, which will take place in early December. It will be a great opportunity to meet people interested in open knowledge, opensourcesoftware, and so on. Details are as follows: When: Saturday 6th December 2008 Where: newthinking [...]
at 9:53 pm by Roy SchestowitzFII has . There are over 10 hours of this, which is a lot, but those who care to listen carefully will find Microsoft’s Morasco talking about OOXML in GO-OO, which is Novell’s evil fork of OpenOffice.org []. Novell when it signed a harmful patent deal with Microsoft. Novell was a There is plenty more among these talks and it would be handy to have the WAV files stored...
"I think it's more likely that Gartner's biggest concern is that open-sourcesoftware firms (and communities) pay it little money for its research. The biggest danger from opensource may actually be to Gartner's P&L statement, not to the enterprises that adopt open-sourcesoftware."
A survey by research and analysis company Gartner has shown the pervasiveness of open-sourcesoftware (OSS) adoption across firms. According to the study, 85 per cent of companies surveyed are currently using OSS in their enterprises and the remaining 15 per cent are expecting to in the next 12 months. The survey was conducted in May and June 2008 and included 274 end-user organisations...
I generally liked CommentPress, but when the Institute for the Future of the Book website went down recently, it started throwing errors in the dashboard. So I decided to re-do the OpenSourceSoftware For Libraries website using Derek Powazek’s DePo Masthead. I think it’s a beautifully readable theme, and I only had to make a [...]
It was probably inevitable given what Google did with Gears, but Yahoo said Tuesday it’s releasing BrowserPlus software as open-sourcesoftware. BrowserPlus and Gears are aimed at improving browsers’ native abilities so Web applications can better match those running natively on a computer’s operating system, and Gears already is open-sourcesoftware....
It was probably inevitable given what Google did with Gears, but Yahoo said Tuesday it's releasing BrowserPlus software as open-sourcesoftware. BrowserPlus and Gears are aimed at improving browsers' native abilities so Web applications can better match those running natively on a computer's operating system, and Gears already is open-sourcesoftware....
