“By 2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms,” predicts a Gartner report, The State of Open Source 2008, which sees a “stealth” impact for the technology in embedded form: “Users who reject open source for technical, legal or business reasons might find themselves unintentionally using open [...]
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Linux may be a free platform for many and a reasonably inexpensive alternative to Unix and proprietary platforms for others, but make no mistake. For years, Linux has been big business, and if projections made by the market researchers at IDC turn out to be correct, in a few short years the Linux server ecosystem [...]
IBM is not only supporting and backing up Linux as an alternative to Windows, but also is actively pushing OS X.
“In line with IBM’s external strategy of offering a true ‘Open Client’ that may be Windows, Linux or a Mac,” the document noted, “Research IS is focusing on providing an IBM application stack on multiple [...]
This month’s Harvard Business Review features a case study of a company debating whether to open source its software. Here’s a mini review of the article.
The polls are closed, the data has been audited and the results are in. Here are the official results for the 2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards:
Desktop Environment of the Year KDE (52.08%)
Window Manager of the Year Compiz (33.65%)
Messaging App of the Year Pidgin (53.90%)
Mail Client of the Year Thunderbird (53.72%)
Virtualization Product of the Year [...]
The European Union yesterday announced that it will invest US$1 million in a study to find the best open source tools for use in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The grant of €703 000 was awarded to a consortium of 11 members, including Canonical, backers of Ubuntu Linix, and the University of the Western Cape. [...]
Linux Journal’s Readers’ Choice Awards offer the opportunity for readers to vote for their Linux and Open Source favorites. Polls will be open through February 14th. Winners will be prominently featured in an upcoming issue of Linux Journal.
They have compiled nominations and came up with the below list — if your favorite is not listed [...]
True or False: Switching from a Windows-operated computer to a Linux-operated one could slash computer-generated e-waste levels by 50%.
The answer is: TRUE
A UK government study in late 2004 reported that there were substantial green benefits to running a Linux open source operating system (OS) on computers instead of the ubiquitous Windows OS, owned by Microsoft. [...]
281 contributors from the openSUSE community participated in a survey last month.
The survey was part of a research project on the topic of firm-sponsored open source communities, hosted by the University of Oslo. Topics in the survey include:
level of contribution
reasons for participating
attitude towards Novell
The results are now ready and can be found here:
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Аналитическая компания ABI Research опубликовала отчёт об исследовании рыночных перспектив мобильных операционных систем на основе Linux, и в частности мобильной платформы Android, представленной недавно компанией Google. Аналитики подтверждают, что фрагментация рынка мобильных Linux-платформ не даёт им возможности использовать свои конкурентные преимущества, так как наличие нескольких несовместимых платформ не удобно ни производителям ни операторам. Такая ситуация [...]
Open source software (OSS) is not so much the underdog in the IT world, according survey findings announced by Barracuda Networks, a provider of e-mail and Web security appliances. Barracuda polled 288 IT security professionals and found their preferences to be roughly split on the likelihood of deploying OSS versus proprietary software, particularly for applications [...]
Little old stat but still … Distrowatch Weekly Newsletter noted back in it’s 13th August 2007 issue that Asia is fast catching up with the readership of Distrowatch.com website, which roughly translates to a keen interest in keeping in touch with, and downloading, various GNU/Linux and BSD distributions. The following table should shed some light [...]
Every year, Linux Magazine starts the new year off with a look at the top 20 companies that we think will be particularly influential in the world of open source software. Our editorial crew has some strong opinions in this area, but we’re also looking to Linux Magazine readers to sound off and tell us [...]
IDC Asia/Pacific Software Survey Reveals that Security Protection Is The Prime Deciding Factor in Open Source Technology Deployment.
According to IDC’s survey report “The Momentum of Open Source: Adoption Plans and Challenges in Australia, Korea, India and the People’s Republic of China” (Doc # AP322113P), the top most influential factor for deploying open source technology was [...]
When it comes to Linux, support really matters. If you’re going to run your mission-critical applications on Linux, then you need a partner who will support you every step of the way.
You already know that SUSE Linux Enterprise is the leader when it comes to technology, so it only makes sense that Novell is the [...]
Доклад к научной конференции 2007 г. Славянского-на-Кубани Государственного Педагогического Института
В связи с последними событиями в России, и возросшими требованиями к лицензированию ПО, все большее количество людей, по своей воле, или вынуждено, задумывается о том, что делать в сложившейся ситуации. Корпорация Майкрософт достаточно долгое время была равнодушна к пиратству в России, и похоже, [...]
Open source software (OSS) is poised for strong growth through the next half-decade, and some of that growth will come at the expense of proprietary software — like the kind Microsoft makes — according to a new study.
IDC, an IT market analysis company, predicted that revenue from standalone OSS, which reached $1.8 billion in 2006, [...]
The openSUSE Survey results are in: thanks to the over 27k people who participated. And over 70% of those use the best desktop environment!
Download Results (pdf)
There are many factors which affect Website availability and performance from end user perspective, namely ISP Internet connection, server location, server parameters, programming language, application architecture and implementation. One of the critical parameters is a selected Operational System (OS). Most users often need to select between Linux and Windows, two popular choices for web servers. [...]
With tax day approaching in America, we at the Software Freedom Law Center wanted to share some important information about the hidden taxes added to every copy of Microsoft’s Windows operating system. If you run a computer using Windows, you’re not just paying for the programmers who put the program together and the corporate operations [...]
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