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Muggie van Staden
The past few years have seen many open source companies being bought by proprietary ones. Back in 2003 Novell bought German Linux maker SuSE. A few years ago Sun Microsystems bought database maker MySQL in a landmark $1 billion deal, and then la... |
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Views: 204 | No Comments » | posted on Friday, September 9th, 2011 | Tags: Linux, open source
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Kevin Phillips
The ever-increasing pace of technology change delivers lots of lovely new gadgets for consumers, but spare a thought for the poor third-party software developer. While Microsoft is already offering sneak previews of Windows 8 and Apple is rolling out... |
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Views: 71 | 2 Comments » | posted on Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 | Tags: Apple, business systems, code maintenance, hidden costs, Microsoft, operating system upgrades, software development, software systems, third party software
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Mark Acton
Telcos are under tremendous pressure to reduce costs, while at the same time improving the experience of customers. Trying to achieve this requires a thorough review of supporting IT systems' operational support systems/business support systems (OSS/... |
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Views: 178 | No Comments » | posted on Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 | Tags: custom software, telco
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Reader Blog
By Muggie van Staden
One of the biggest misconceptions about open source software (OSS) in the enterprise is that it is software that can be rolled out without the involvement of a vendor. But in reality, in any enterprise software deployment, the... |
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Views: 474 | No Comments » | posted on Monday, May 17th, 2010 | Tags: Linux, open source, software development, vendor
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Joseph Misika
A while back I wrote about the Battle of the Browsers between Opera's Opera, Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox versus Microsoft's Internet Explorer. From the look of things, the axis of good have won with the recent announcement by Microsoft that... |
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Views: 378 | 4 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Chrome OS, Google, internet, Microsoft, open source, web
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Reader Blog
Submitted by Tendai Chiguware
I have to admit I was not one of the first people to download Linux Ubuntu 8.04 when it was released some time last year. The reason was that I already had Ubuntu 7.01 Ultimate Gamers Edition (which I believe is the b... |
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Views: 1241 | 15 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 | Tags: Linux, media player, open source, Ubuntu, Windows
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Heather Ford
Creative Commons licences are a set of copyright licences that enable copyright holders to mark their creative work with the freedom they want it to carry. By specifying what kinds of reuse you will allow by default (non-commercial or commercial reus... |
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Views: 374 | No Comments » | posted on Monday, March 9th, 2009 | Tags: creative commons, firefox, flickr, mozilla, wikipedia
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Joseph Misika
Google recently joined the group of companies supporting the European Commission's investigation into Microsoft over the benefits it gets ahead of its competitors by releasing its Internet Explorer browser with Windows. The complaint was originally f... |
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Views: 441 | 7 Comments » | posted on Thursday, March 5th, 2009 | Tags: EU, Internet Explorer, Linux, Microsoft, Opera, unfair advantage
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Derek Abdinor
A wiki is a cute concept still hunting for proper application. Sure, it has a rocking video, poster child and its fun to say "wiki" three times in rapid succession, but is it really satisfying any organisational (business or informal) need?
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Views: 288 | 11 Comments » | posted on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 | Tags: application, feeds, Wikipedia, wikis
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Ross Allchorn
A quick mention this so you can be one of the first to dive in and test drive Google's latest release on their ever growing list of wares and services.
The new browser by Google called Chrome was officially announced on Tuesday, September 2 20... |
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Views: 263 | 5 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 | Tags: Browser, development, firefox, google
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