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Ubuntu Goes Enterprise

Canonical announced plans to offer a software stack that includes several enterprise-ready open-source applications.

6 Aug 2008 4 mins
Linux Open Source Servers
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Five Things Linus Torvalds Has Learned About Managing Software Projects

Linus Torvalds explains how he keeps the people and software on-track, with the software quality Linux demands.

4 Aug 2008 4 mins
Developer Open Source Project Management Tools
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A Penguin with an Egg: Growing the Open-Source Community

Esther Schindler came home from OSCON with thoughts on growing the size of the pool in open-source development communities. And it's all upbeat news.

4 Aug 2008 11 mins
Collaboration Software Innovation Small and Medium Business
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Goodwin Procter Makes Strong Case for Knowledge Management

Integrates data using Microsoft's Sharepoint

1 Aug 2008 5 mins
IT Leadership Software Development
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Testing Service-Oriented Architectures: A Primer for the Real World

Along with the benefits of an interconnected system come spiraling costs if the system runs out of control. When undertaking SOA, testing is a necessary form of risk-management u2014 and Matt Heusser describes how to do it well.

31 Jul 2008 8 mins
Risk Management Web Development
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Tight Budgets? Try Open Source SOA!

So you think you don't have the money to find out if SOA can save you money? Test the waters with Open Source SOA. You might find out that Open Source is what you've needed all along.

31 Jul 2008 8 mins
Open Source Web Development
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The Next Three Big Open-Source Challenges: Cloud Computing, Open Web and Mobile

Tim O'Reilly's OSCON kenynote encouraged the open-source community to pay attention to three main challenges: Cloud computing, the open programmable Web and open mobile. Another speaker exhorted attendees to get involved in another larger e

24 Jul 2008 6 mins
Data Center Open Source Small and Medium Business
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Developing Open-Source Business Policies That Work: Everyone Is Making It Up As They Go Along

While others' guidelines can help an IT manager create corporate open-source policies, there's no authoritative list of how to do it right.

9 Jul 2008 10 mins
Enterprise Applications IT Leadership Open Source
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Open Source: Are Macs the Red-Headed Stepchild?

One benefit to open-source applications is they can run on any operating system you want. But getting open-source software developed for the Mac is -- depending on whom you ask -- slow as molasses or quick as lightning.

8 Jul 2008 7 mins
Apple Developer Technology Industry
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An Earthshaking Use of Open Source

A German scientific institute migrated to Linux and open-source software to monitor global seismic activity data for compliance with the nuclear test ban treaty.

7 Jul 2008 5 mins
Compliance Data Management Open Source