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Open Source at Cloud Expo For small and mid-sized businesses, there often is a question about whether to stick with tried and true software providers such as Microsoft for your servers, e-mail and business applications or consider adoption of open-source products such as Linux. I've witnessed in this region some hesitation toward adoption of open-source products. I believe it's important to be able to make a rational evaluation of the two paths so you can make the best decisions. First, what is open-source software? Taken strictly, the term refers to software licensed under a specific type of license requiring the source code be made freely available. Anyone can contribute to the code base, but those contributions must be given freely to the community and available for ... (more)

Mozilla Might Be Ready to Step Out of Google’s Shadow

Firefox Session at Cloud Expo Mozilla has been going toe to toe with Microsoft on the browser front standing solidly behind the European Union‘s stance against the software giant over monopoly abuse for tying the Internet Explorer browser to the Windows operating system. Mozilla, is also rapidly digging a hole in Internet Explorer‘s dominating market share. So it just does not make any ... (more)

Open Source Content Management Software Company New CEO

eZ Systems announced that former IBM and BEA executive Christoph Rau will join the company as CEO, effective immediately. Rau brings 25 years of management experience from the international IT and software industry, He takes over the CEO positon from co-founder Aleksander Farstad, who will become chief business development officer. With innovative, leading-edge product design and a highly... (more)

Welcome to The Managing FOSS for Business Results Blog

Open Source Journal Welcome to our new blog. This blog is part of a new educational initiative to foster a deeper understanding of the capabilities and issues involved with administering FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) to deliver concrete business benefits. Although our subject will sometimes become technical, we will strive to address the business benefits at the beginning of each ... (more)

Sun Updates VirtualBox Cross-Platform Virtualization Software

Sun has released VirtualBox 3.1.0, it's cross-platform virtualisation software to include support for 2D video acceleration for Windows guests. Virtual Box is available in two versions. The open source edition is available under the GPL, but is only available from Sun as source code. The full version is also available free of charge, but under a personal use and evaluation license that req... (more)