What are open-source operating systems? Everything you need to know
The lowdown on what open-source operating systems are and why they matter.
The lowdown on what open-source operating systems are and why they matter.
The open-source software community continues to go from strength to strength, yet persistent challenges around skills, security and integration are hampering progress.
Creating online communities of customers and workers has been one of the hotter topics in business and technology this year. Whether you're on the business side, in IT, or are just trying to build virtual teams around shared goals, online communities are rapidly becoming a popular way to organize people and accomplish work in a highly collaborative manner. It's beginning to be understood that communities aren't just for socializing but for getting things done.
Facebook's Social Graph -- the database underlying its Graph Search engine unveiled yesterday-- is just one of many graph databases being employed for complex, connected data. Neo4j is another leading graph database that is open source and used by Cisco, Adobe, Squidoo and Intuit.
Microsoft is staffing up an internal Inner Source initiative to bring open-source principles, methodologies and tools for use by development teams inside the company.
OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 is a free, open source alternative to Microsoft's Office application suite. It is fantastic if you need basic office applications — such as a word processor or spreadsheet — at no cost. However, large organisations and power users may be disappointed by its lack of features and support.
"What has changed is the way we think about how we work across the industry in terms of providing interoperable solutions. Our focus has shifted over the last few years.
How far can the idea of "give first, then take" really go, in the real world? Google has the bandwidth, the processing power and the storage to take this idea to the ends of the Earth, and to either prove it or disprove it, once and for all.
Get ready to rumble! Microsoft's senior vice president and Red Hat's CEO will square off to defend their conflicting views on open source at a major conference on July 26.
Digium, an open-source VoIP software maker, has received $13.2 million in first-round venture capital funding from Matrix Partners for the development of Asterisk.