Vol. 4 Iss: 8 Read back Issues

Electronic Communications Retention, Retrieval & Supervision The market for electronic communications retention, retrieval, and supervisory systems is growing at a rapid pace. This growth is driven by a number of factors including the need for better regulatory control over corporate commun... Oct. 14, 2006  Reads: 11,780

More Than Webbed Feet These days, average home computer users spend more time surfing the Web and writing e-mail messages than doing just about anything else. Even if you're not much of a surfer, there are still numerous other applications that aren't ... Oct. 15, 2006  Reads: 10,337

OpenVista at Midland Memorial Hospital This year, Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, Texas, became the first community hospital in the country to adopt Open Source-based electronic health records (EHR). The implementation reflects the emergence of Open Source altern... Oct. 17, 2006  Reads: 17,755  Replies: 2

EOS Cover Story — Linux Authentication Using PAM and LDAP In an environment with more than a few Linux servers, managing users, groups, and other information securely across those systems is critical. Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) and the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (L... Oct. 18, 2006  Reads: 10,762

Balancing Open Source and Commerce If ever there was a topic that someone was qualified to discuss, it would be me talking about how open source companies need to balance the interests of their community while making money. In fact, our company is named Funambol be... Oct. 19, 2006  Reads: 13,551

Using Kernel Modules To Help Test Applications Surely with its army of kernel hackers and proofreaders, the Linux kernel should be close to perfect. The reality is that most kernel hackers focus on only a piece of the kernel - VM, disk I/O, a particular driver, or some part of t... Oct. 20, 2006  Reads: 5,703

Open Source Software, Standards, and Java Sun Microsystems recently announced its intentions of finally publishing Java under an Open Source license. But what does that actually mean? We'll take a quick look at what it means to be 'Open Source,' how the Java language specif... Oct. 21, 2006  Reads: 19,773

Hello Dali! On June 26, 2006 the Eclipse Foundation announced the availability of new releases of 10 Open Source projects. This simultaneous release event, named Callisto, garnered a lot of attention for the 10 projects involved. But, meanw... Oct. 22, 2006  Reads: 26,408

CEO Vision of Linux It's important not to get too carried away with 'the latest tech trend.' Technology changes more rapidly than any other sector, and this year's 'must have' technology is quickly made obsolete, or so it seems. However, every so often... Oct. 13, 2006  Reads: 14,487  Replies: 2

i-Technology Viewpoint: "Open Source Is Not a Trend, It's a Paradigm Shift" I recently read an article in the 'mainstream' media that gave me pause. The author made an assertion that the current trend towards Open Source might just be a passing fad. I thought about this and looked critically at the softwa... Oct. 15, 2006  Reads: 28,019  Replies: 4

The Best of Both Worlds These days the size of almost all the resources available to a programmer (memory volume, CPU speed, etc.) are on the rise except for one: the time required to complete a project, which is shrinking. So it's important to work with ... Oct. 23, 2006  Reads: 12,865  Replies: 1