items tagged with Open Source
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: ZDNet UK
2006-12-19 03:03:42
In 2004, one London borough council went from being a potential poster-child for open source advocates to near public enemy number one. Newham, in the East of the capital, close to the site of planned Olympic village, had been carrying out extensive trials of Linux on the desktop and server software, but in a u-turn move decided that the systems were just "too risky" and instead opted for Windows XP.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2006-12-17 16:34:38
Open source company MySQL AB, which puts out the well-known database of the same name, has made a couple of moves this year, both of which have passed without much comment.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2006-12-14 17:37:50
It's often difficult to figure out the motivation behind a particular study - until one finds out who has commissioned and paid for it. The so-called tech consulting companies would love it if the consumer believes that they have conducted an "independent" study. The worrying thing is that not many people blow their cover.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: ZDNet UK
2006-12-14 06:04:11
Search giant Google is a heavy user of open-source software and an active participant in many projects that develop it — even chipping in some funding, Chris DiBona says.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: ZDNet UK
2006-12-13 06:41:35
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates once likened the open-source movement to communism, but there was little evidence of that on Tuesday when Linux specialist Red Hat took over the New York Stock Exchange.
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