Open source initiatives
In this potential clash of the titans, the fight for open standards in the cloud market could easily fall by the wayside... more
But vendors and companies can benefit by using open source to complement their development budget... more
Google says Android is an open development process, but partners say the company is running the show to ensure Android's commercial viability... more
Closure compiler and related JavaScript libraries could help developers improve Web apps' performance... more
DoD and other government agencies' multiple open source projects would benefit from OpenLogic's streamlined and consistent support process... more
Whitehouse.gov selection of open source opens the door for OSFA to educate federal government buyers on open source best practices... more
Not only is open source being adopted by more enterprise software vendors, we're also seeing increased use of free trial software... more
Prominent software activist says Oracle must be prevented from taking control of MySQL, urges Europe's antitrust regulator to demand divestment... more
Vendors deliver value beyond just price -- so why is price the key message?... more
An open community strategy pays fewer dividends after the vendor has built an open core business
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Open standards affect software exit costs more than open source alone... more
Microsoft funds CodePlex Foundation, echoes IBM's 2001 creation of Eclipse ... more
Red Hat's Project Hail offers platform APIs resident in the cloud, and Deltacloud is intended to enable an interoperating ecosystem across public and private clouds... more
Lesser-known InfoWorld Bossies winners like Pentaho, JasperSoft, SugarCRM, Drupal, VirtualBox, or NetBeans are worth considering as well... more
InfoWorld's 2009 Bossies spotlight today's Top 40 open source products for business and IT pros... more
InfoWorld's 2009 Bossie Awards... more
MVC UI extensions offered as open source... more
As open source gets more commercial, GPL's idealism is overridden by developers' business needs... more
The open source software makes signing and key management simpler for implementing DNSSEC... more
Plus, Microsoft sees revenue and profits sink; Intel, Microsoft team up to make Windows 7 faster; and more... more
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