Open Source

Open Source Flies In A Recession, Says Ingres

Open source software is the only way for users to meet the economic crisis, says Roger Burkhardt of Ingres. But…

15 years ago

Palm Pre Customer Satisfaction Hot On iPhone 3GS Heels

The Apple iPhone 3GS asserted itself to the top of Consumer Reports' newest smartphone rankings, with the Palm Pre was…

15 years ago

Google Throws Apps Contacts Open to Enterprise

Google is making it easier for users to find contacts within an enterprise, mirroring existing enterprise social software from IBM,…

15 years ago

Sun Readies VirtualBox for Data Centre Virtualisation

Sun has upgraded it VirtualBox virtualisation platform, to compete with virtualisation technology from VMware, Citrix and Microsoft

15 years ago

Sun Shines On Oracle Fusion Launch

Oracle's newest middleware technology platform takes advantage of virtualisation and includes new developer tools for easier application building

15 years ago

Windows And Linux Prepare For Netbook Wars II

Microsoft has clearly won the first Netbook Wars, sidelining Linux as an operating system for low-cost laptops. But, Peter Judge…

15 years ago

Asus Dumps Linux From The Eee

If you want Linux on an Eee, you'll have to go to Toys R Us, Asus tells eWEEK Europe

15 years ago

Northumbria University Gets Wyse to Sustainable IT

A major new deployment of energy efficient thin client computers complements campus green-building design features as part of an environmental…

15 years ago

Canonical Puts Ubuntu Enterprise Services Into The Cloud

Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu Linux project, has launched new professional services to help and support users building private…

15 years ago

Pre Sales Top 370,000, Claims Palm Blogger

Palm has sold 370,000 Palm Pre smartphones and expects to sell a million in its first quarter, according to a…

15 years ago

Globalisation Poses Urgent Questions

ICT professionals tend to view globalisation as an inevitable and positive force for change. But, asks Simon Perry, what sort…

15 years ago

Pirate Bay Sold For £4.7 Million

The Swedish software firm buying Pirate Bay plans to use its brand together with new file-sharing technology to create a…

15 years ago

Oracle Deal DOJ Delays Simply an “Irritation” for Sun

The US Federal government has decided to spend more time performing due diligence on the proposed Oracle-Sun merger, while Java…

15 years ago

SMBs Will Be The Dominant Market In The Cloud, Says Parallels

Head of automation and virtualisation software company, Parallels is betting big on the cloud. But Serguei Beloussov says operating system…

15 years ago

Sun Ray Users Get More Options With RingCube Desktop Virtualisation

Sun Microsystems and RingCube are joining forces to offer Sun Ray users more options when deploying a desktop virtualisation environment.

15 years ago

Gartner Predicts PC Shipment Growth Upturn in Fourth Quarter

Gartner's latest assessment of worldwide PC shipments expects the PC market to post positive growth in the fourth quarter, and…

15 years ago

Tory Paper Demands Government Give Back Our Data

A new Conservative think tank report is calling for citizen-centric, open source IT development to put an end to wasteful,…

15 years ago

Who Would be Brazil In The Java World Cup?

Not Sun or Oracle, but SpringSource, according to their CEO Rod Johnson; a recent survey and work on java specs…

15 years ago

Open Source Is Not the Same As An Open Service

Companies need the freedom to get at their data, to choose hosted or in-house options and more. All this can…

15 years ago

Nokia And Intel To Collaborate On Mobile Linux Devices

Connected mobile Linux devices from Nokia and Intel might challenge Windows netbook

15 years ago

James Gosling: Sun Is Better Off At Oracle Than At IBM

The future for Java is an unknown, says its creator James Gosling. But at least Sun Microsystems is owned by…

15 years ago

Gosling: Google’s Java Attitude Will Break Android Compatibility

There's no one in charge of Java on Google's Android OS - and that's going to lead to trouble says…

15 years ago

Citrix Hits VMware with Free XenServer 5.5 Download

The new XenServer has better back-up. conversion and search - and you can get started with a free download. VMware…

15 years ago

CA Pushes Linux On Mainframes

A recent survey sponsored by CA indicated that larger enterprises are expecting to invest more money into running Linux applications…

15 years ago

Swiss Users Stand Up For Open Source

Whatever the Swiss government thinks, there are plenty of users in Switzerland who know that open source provides a viable…

15 years ago

OASIS Tries To Live Up To Open Standards

OASIS has revised its intellectual property policy to include a non-assertion mode, which means standards contributors must forego royalty claims…

15 years ago

Digital Britain- It Could Be A Great Piracy Experiment

The UK government's proposed crackdown on ilegal copying could make a perfect test of the music industry's assumptions, says Peter…

15 years ago

UK Still Lags At Open Source

Despite a recession which could promote open source, the UK is less likely to use it than Mali

15 years ago

Opera Wants To Unite Web, Critics Argue For Boycott

Opera has integrated a web server into its browser but Windows fans are calling on computer users to shun the…

15 years ago

Windows Fan Calls For Opera Ban

David Taraso of the JCXP.net Website argues that Microsoft should be allowed to put its Internet Explorer browser in Windows…

15 years ago