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Posted on March 11, 2010 - by admin

Open Source Books: Android, by Massimo Carli

Many books on Android are available today, but “Android - Guida per lo sviluppatore” (eng. developers’ guide) is the first Italian book covering the open source Java-based mobile platform developed by Google

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Open Source Books: Android, by Massimo Carli

Posted on March 11, 2010 - by admin

Open Source Search Gains Momentum | CTO Edge

When most people think of search, the term Google comes immediately to mind. But while Google is definitely an industry standard on the Web, the adoption of search engines within the enterprise has been anything but stellar.

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Open Source Search Gains Momentum | CTO Edge

Posted on March 11, 2010 - by admin

InfoQ: Revisiting Biases Against Open Source SOA Solutions

Ronald Schmelzer, a senior analyst at ZapThink revisits the common misconception/biases on the suitability of open source SOA solutions for the enterprise and asks “why is it then that so many IT organizations prematurely discard Open …

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Posted on March 10, 2010 - by admin

Open Source Webinars: ActiveState, BlackDuck, EnterpriseDB

Take Quality Products to Market Faster with Enterprise-Ready Dynamic Languages - Join Lawrence Backman, VP, Quality Assurance at CA, and Jeff Hobbs, Director of Engineering at ActiveState to.

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Open Source Webinars: ActiveState, BlackDuck, EnterpriseDB

Posted on March 9, 2010 - by admin

Open Source is Opening Data to Predictive Analytics | (Articles …

An article about R: This article by REvolution Computing CEO Norman Nie is crossposted from the Future of Open Source Forum. The R Project: despite there being over 2 million users of this open - source language for statistical data …

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Posted on March 8, 2010 - by admin

Oracle: Open Source's Friend or Foe?

Jeremy Allison of the Samba fame wrote an interesting blog post about Sun’s approach to open source participatory development, followed by Bradley Kuhn’s bad opinion of Oracle’s attitude tow.

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Posted on March 8, 2010 - by admin

What's on your bookshelf? | Open Source Schools

Packt publishing have a rather nice line in technical guides to a wide range of software applications, with a particularly strong list of open source titles. A couple of new titles look interesting, and I hope to include reviews when …

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Posted on March 8, 2010 - by admin

Social Constructivism and Open Source | Open Source Schools

I spend the first part of the lecture giving a quick synopsis of a number of social and constructivist educational paradigms, making some explicit connections with learning ICT where I can, before discussing open source and creative …

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Social Constructivism and Open Source | Open Source Schools

Posted on March 7, 2010 - by admin

P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Developments and enclosures in …

What’s often missed in open source discussions is how open source licenses tell only half the story. The governance model, the implicit rules defining transparency and influence into an open source project, is the small print that …

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Posted on March 4, 2010 - by admin

Open Sourcing Data Center Design « Data Center Knowledge

Can the principles of open source software transform the data center industry?

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Open Sourcing Data Center Design « Data Center Knowledge