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Software Appliances: Delivering Open Source

By Deb Woods

Appliances. The very word is emblematic of stability and strength. Think of the appliances in your kitchen. Unless you're particularly unlucky, 99.9% of the time your refrigerator, stove and dishwasher just work. You don't have to give it a second thought. When we talk about software a...

Jun. 6, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 1,953

Service Management and Enterprise Architecture

By Serge Thorn

Governance is currently a key topic for many IT functions. Its definition varies, but its key themes are true for all companies: effectiveness, efficiency, and reliability. Business value and risk mitigation are also at its center and represent a significant part of enterprise governan...

Jan. 31, 2008 08:00 AM Reads: 5,664

SSO, Open Source and the 'Modern' Enterprise

By Anthony Gold; Mike Anderson

Efforts to modernize enterprise infrastructure have never been more complex. While the need is certainly there on multiple fronts - competitive edge, cost savings and new business initiatives, to name just a few - new hurdles seem to pop up no matter where an IT administrator might loo...

Jan. 17, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 4,630

Selecting an Open Source Content Management Solution

By Vinod Pabba

When it comes to Content Management Solutions (CMS), 'one size' does not fit all. When considering open source CMS for a real-world client experience, it's necessary to focus on the project needs, evaluate various CMS solutions in the context of these project needs, and to explore expe...

Jan. 3, 2008 09:15 AM Reads: 7,917 Replies: 1

Enterprise Open Source Is Not Just the Code

By Sujee Saparamadu

Within Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM), many companies have enjoyed a blossoming of open source software. By harnessing the collective wisdom, experiences, expertise, and requirements, the model has ensured that needs have been rapidly met ...

Jun. 12, 2007 01:00 PM Reads: 8,202

Making Sense of Virtualization

By Alex Vasilevsky

Companies are finding it increasingly difficult to manage their enterprise data centers as they become highly complex, expensive to build out, and difficult to reconfigure as needs change. In an effort to address these challenges, many IT professionals are turning to virtualization tec...

Feb. 19, 2007 04:15 PM Reads: 23,128

Adopting an Open Source Approach to Software Development, Distribution, and Licensing

By Ibrahim Haddad

Since the beginning of the software industry, nearly every software company in the world has followed the same business model: its own employees develop the software, which is closely held intellectual property, the software is delivered to clients in binary form, and users run the lic...

Jan. 5, 2007 09:15 AM Reads: 13,451 Replies: 2

Opening Up the Enterprise

By Tom Manos

A quick Google search of 'enterprise Open Source' returns over 1.5 million results. There are Web sites devoted to the topic; there are dedicated conferences and trade shows, and even a fairly large number of books. There's even a magazine - the one now in your hands! - devoted entirel...

Aug. 5, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 10,644

Aha! What Your Refrigerator Can Teach You About Selling Software

By Tom Crowley

Great ideas often come from the most commonplace occurrences. Take the story of Sir Issac Newton's 'discovery' of gravity. According to the legend, he was sitting under an apple tree minding his own business when - bonk! - an apple dropped onto his head, and suddenly all the complex ma...

Jul. 14, 2006 02:30 PM Reads: 12,498 Replies: 1

The High Cost of Independence

By Billy Marshall

The acronym ISV stands for Independent Software Vendor. Historically, independence was important to protect customers from the proprietary lock-in associated with third-party components such as hardware or system software. A greater choice of interoperable components gave customers gre...

Jul. 12, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 13,285 Replies: 1

Selling Software in China

By Bud Michael

Technology companies have been taking a beating lately because of their efforts in China. Google and Yahoo are torn between the evil of government censorship and the prospect of doing business with the world's fastest-growing economy. Microsoft, Adobe, and content providers like the Am...

Jul. 7, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 8,378

YOUR FEEDBACK

	IBM Joins OpenOffice.org Community By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Java Web Development wrote: Good to know more about technology.... Dedicated Java Developers....
	Open Source: The Next Frontier for Data Quality Management By Subbu Manchiraju mark wrote: Echoing the other commenter, InfoSolve does not provide open source. They provide source code for things they build on top of OSS to people who pay them. There is a distribution of source to the payer, so it's really a source code license. I think the magazine should do a little more homework before...
	The Collision of Open Source and SaaS at AJAXWorld By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Offshore Java Developers wrote: Use of Java Technologies as a New Feature.
	Open Source Firm Jaspersoft Launches Jasperforge.Org By Enterprise Open Source News Desk smith wrote: outdated article. looks like jasperforge.org is on new essentia COS platform
	Commercial Packages vs Open Source: Which is Better Long-term? By Doug Stewart Lewis Cunningham wrote: On a related note, I recently created a database survey to learn some database usage patterns between commercial databases and OSDBs. I plan to release the data openly, as well as my initial analysis, upon completion of the survey. I would love it if you and your readers would participate. It's j...