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Sandals and ponytail set cramp Linux

The lax dress code of the open-source community is one of the reasons behind the software's slow uptake in commercial environments, says former Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn. Read more »

NZ Ministry of Justice: We want open source

The New Zealand Ministry for Justice believes that open source software is a more stable, supportable, and cost-effective choice compared to proprietary solutions. Read more »

Sun criticised for MySQL Enterprise shift

Sun is to begin offering certain MySQL features, beginning with some backup functions, solely to its enterprise subscription customers, the company announced this week. Read more »

Hyperic launches open source management project

The company is applying the open source model to the enterprise management software business Read more »

Sun mulls an open-source Java server

Add Sun's Java server software suite to the company's list of open-source candidates. Read more »

Novell brands its own open-source religion

Novell is readying two major product launches meant to make its open-source software more palatable to corporate customers. Read more »

Open source software: the way forward?

Companies are beginning to see open source software as a viable alternative for the enterprise, according to a leading analyst. Read more »

Open source specialists offered tech support rewards

OpenLogic will pay developers to provide high-level support for scores of open source products, but not everyone is convinced by the idea. Read more »

SAP: Love those developers, hate that open source

Enterprise software giant SAP is making a renewed push to build ties to the developer community, but that enthusiasm isn't likely to extend to making the source code for any of its core components available. Read more »

Adobe open sources BlazeDS

The software company is to open source its tool for connecting data sources to flash-based rich internet application. Read more »

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Features (104)

Six barriers to open source adoption

The benefits of open source software are well known--lower TCO, more choice, and increasing quality and functionality of the code. Several barriers must be overcome before Linux and other open source projects are broadly accepted across enterprises, but they aren't insurmountable. Read more »

Making a case for enterprise open source

Bringing any new system into an established organisation, especially when it is a concept like open source, is a matter of selling the idea. Read more »

Proprietary vs. open source? Take the best of both codes

The Microsoft vs. Linux confrontation is too often seen as a battle for the hearts and minds of this industry. From a corporate IT perspective, each side has legitimate claims and products to offer. It's not an either-or situation; it's about the price and service for goods rendered. The enterprise will be a hybrid world that continues to integrate both proprietary and open source code for a long time to come. Read more »

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Production-quality XenSource virtualisation is the main selling point here, with optional clustering and storage virtualisation to go with it. But there's a lot more besides, making the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux a compelling solution for businesses of all sizes. Read more »

Can't J2EE and .NET just be friends?

The two Web services standards are now settling into their respective roles and the reasons for choosing one over the other are becoming clearer. But can they play nicely together? Read more »

Java development trends

Java is quickly moving into new arenas. This first part of the series from Builder introduces just some of these trends. Read more »

Asia's open source hangup

One of the main draws and selling point of open source technology is its much celebrated developer ecosystem. But, according to an industry expert, this community spirit seems to be lacking in Asia. Read more »

Taking on Twitter with open source software

One service that seemed to come out of nowhere and get instant buy-in from influential digerati around the Web was Identica, an open source microblogging alternative from Montreal resident Evan Prodromou, who in 2003 had co-founded Wikitravel. Read more »

Surviving in the wild with open source Java

Nick Gibson shows what the Classpath exception means you don't have to worry. Read more »

Open source: catalyst for an argument?

For some unknown reason, open source seems to be a catalyst for workplace arguments--regardless of how technical (or not) the people involved are. Read more »

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Blog (5)

Google's Android parts ways with Java industry group

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google's Android software gives Sun Microsystems' Java technology a starring role -- but not the version of Java the rest of the mobile phone industry has been developing since the 1990s. Read more »

Novell developer tool embraces main rival

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Novell has endowed its OpenSuse Build Service with the ability to produce software for its main rival -- Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Read more »

Q&A with EditMe: A wiki for non-geeks

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Finally, a wiki CMS solution that you can safely give to your clients to use. But sshhhh... don't call it a wiki... Read more »

Hypervisor price tag: 500 million dollars!

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- In this week's roundup we look at Citrix's purchase of XenSource, whether Sharepoint is Microsoft's new platform for lock-in, as well as a plethora of Google news. Read more »

Mono a Mano

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- While the world has been heralding the release of Visual Studio.NET 2005, another project on the back-burner has been bubbling along. Read more »

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