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Commercial open source business strategies in 2009 and beyond »
Posted by: schestowitz 6 months ago in Science & Technology
The future of commercial open source software lies in commercial licensing strategies, but which are the strategies that are more likely to deliver the results ...
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Apache Wins Big »
Posted by: schestowitz 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Apache's market share grew by more than 1 percentage point this month, extending its lead over Microsoft IIS, which has fallen to less than ...
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7 Best Free/Open-source Backup Software for Linux »
Posted by: schestowitz 6 months ago in Science & Technology
A computer application utilized to perform a complete backup by duplicating the original source of data is called backup software. Obviously, the main purpose of ...
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Microsoft's struggle to compete with 'free' »
Posted by: schestowitz 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Was Allchin just speaking of probabilities, or was he hinting that Microsoft was going to help ensure a certainty? Well, as we later found out ...
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What's up in OOo 3.1? »
Posted by: schestowitz 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
At the weekend the upload of DEV300m39 build started. This is the first developer milestone after Feature Freeze for OOo 3.1. To bring it ...
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OPEN FORMAT, OPEN SOURCE AND THE ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT »
Posted by: schestowitz 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
It is 'Make love, not war' in atypical way. In term of Gandhi's philosophy, they are right means and are the key to the ...
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Belarus Opens Free Software Laboratory »
Posted by: schestowitz 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
[Via Google Translate: Belarusian State University opens lab to study the freely distributed operating systems (open systems standards). It was established at the Faculty of ...
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India Moves to Free Software, So Microsoft Fights Back with Bribes »
Posted by: schestowitz 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Political parties in the country embrace FOSS, but Microsoft carries on with EDGI, gifts, and dumping of software
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TechRadar's 10 favourite technologies of 2008 »
Posted by: schestowitz 6 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
When you sit there with a glass of mulled wine this Christmas, think about what a great technology year 2008 has been.
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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Passes 25 Million Downloads »
Posted by: schestowitz 6 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
John McCreesh noted that OpenOffice.org 3.0 reached its 25 millionth download on Christmas Day, December 25. (See the bouncer statistics for the latest ...
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Planting Seeds of Doubt in Microsoft’s Future »
Posted by: schestowitz 6 months ago in Science & Technology
Finally, although not wanting to become a “futurologist”, I think there is a strong possibility that Microsoft may file for the north American Chapter 11 ...
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Energized by open source: Ditching closed apps spurred growth, utility says »
Posted by: schestowitz 6 months ago in Science & Technology
Six-year-old BlueStar Energy Services doesn't have the kind of systems-baggage that saddles many older organizations. Still, the company found itself hindered by the rigidity ...
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7 Reasons Why Pirates Should Jump Ship to Open Source »
Posted by: schestowitz 6 months ago in Science & Technology
1. Support the Software that Supports Your Values
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Adding more power to emergence of Linux in Gujarat India »
Posted by: schestowitz 5 months ago in Science & Technology
We have been finding the footmarks of people loving Linux here in Gujarat. There were many whom we came accross but all had Linux for ...
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Open source question for school »
Posted by: schestowitz 5 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
With Open Source Software (OSS) freely available, covering almost every requirement in the national curriculum, a question has to be asked why schools do not ...
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