Archive for October, 2010

Posted on October 29, 2010 - by admin

Lucid Imagination » Open Source Beats Out Commercial Software

Why this growing value gap between commercial and open source software? Because of the maturation of the open source supply chain. I invite you to read the post to see how changes in both the supply and demand of open source have …

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Lucid Imagination » Open Source Beats Out Commercial Software

Posted on October 29, 2010 - by admin

SAS vs Open Source | (Articles about R)

SAS CEO Jim Goodnight elicited guffaws from the audience during his keynote at JSM this year when he said “I have a problem with gove…

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SAS vs Open Source | (Articles about R)

Posted on October 29, 2010 - by admin

Revolutions: SAS vs Open Source

SAS CEO Jim Goodnight elicited guffaws from the audience during his keynote at JSM this year when he said “I have a problem with government using open source software”. Now it seems Goodnight is at the center of another controversy …

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Posted on October 29, 2010 - by admin

Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Enomaly, EnterpriseDB, OpenERP

Deploying Open Source Scale-Out Storage – Gluster sponsors a webinar outlining how service providers can increase service offerings and add new revenue streams by adopting cloud computing.

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Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Enomaly, EnterpriseDB, OpenERP

Posted on October 29, 2010 - by admin

Save the world: Answer the FEMA challenge | opensource.com

Previously an editor for Red Hat Magazine, Ruth will now be helping to lead discussions about the open source way in the Life channel of opensource .com. Ruth is a maker at heart who is often behind a sewing machine, rolling fondant, …

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Save the world: Answer the FEMA challenge | opensource.com

Posted on October 29, 2010 - by admin

OpenNebula 2.0 Open Source Cloud Software Released

Version 2.0 of the open source OpenNebula Toolkit goes a long way towards establishing it as a viable alternative to commercial cloud computing software…

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Posted on October 29, 2010 - by admin

CMS procurement: Time for open source? « JISC Digital …

To be honest, I didn’t learn an awful lot about Plone but it was a very useful afternoon as there were some good speakers on the procurement process for CMS’s generally and where open source software (OSS) fits into the market. …

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Microsoft to Support Open Source CloudStack | Cloud Computing Journal

Microsoft says it’s going to help open source cloud orchestration software start-up Cloud.com integrate and support its Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V in the OpenStack project, the Rackspace/NASA-started open source cloud platform. …

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Posted on October 29, 2010 - by admin

Virtual Intelligence Briefing » Gluster to Present Webinar on …

Gluster will be joined by industry experts Terri McClure, senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, and Reuven Cohen, founder and CTO of Enomaly, for the live webcast, “Service Providers Deploying Open Source Scale-Out Storage …

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Posted on October 29, 2010 - by admin

Firefox 4 beta 7 now due early November, RC1 in early '11

As many know by now, the release of Firefox 4 has been delayed until early 2011.The Mozilla team has announced that the next beta, beta 7, is due in early November, beta 8 is aimed for Nov 12, beta 9 is slated for November 26, …

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