Vol. 4 Iss: 10 Read Back Issues

Mono, Mainsoft and Cross-Platform Enterprise Development At first glance, it may sound like an impossible prospect for .NET developers to engage in cross-platform, open source development in the enterprise. Such a reality would be unfortunate, because many development teams enjoy the productivity inherent in using Visual Studio .NET and its ... Jan. 14, 2007  Reads: 11,263

Bringing Thousands of Workers Together with an Open Source Intranet Solution When obstacles such as poverty, lack of education or disabilities keep people from finding jobs, Goodwill is there to help. We do that by selling your donations of clothing and household goods in local Goodwill stores and using the revenue to fund our job-training programs in your comm... Jan. 12, 2007  Reads: 10,157

Tiptoe Through the Open Source Tulips A job search can be one of the most daunting challenges one faces in his lifetime. Fortunately, the current economy offers a plentiful supply of opportunities. Even with that said, a number of factors always come into play like which company should I choose, and should I relocate for a... Jan. 10, 2007  Reads: 11,488

Dokuwiki - A Practical Open Source Knowledge Base Solution Whether you're a company of one or 100, managing knowledge is a core concern and implementing a knowledge base is a sensible way to capture your content. Dokuwiki is a practical open source Web application for creating a knowledge base that's easy for novice Webmasters to set up but fl... Jan. 9, 2007  Reads: 24,593  Replies: 1

The Open Source Solution for ERP and Integration The Marena Group in Lawrenceville, Georgia, has always followed its own path and bucked convention. A maker of compression garments for athletic and post-surgical use, the company exports approximately half of its domestically produced goods to overseas markets - a true exception in th... Jan. 8, 2007  Reads: 10,469

.NET Programming with Open Source Databases In the past, using open source databases meant running UNIX (or Linux) servers and open source development environments. Today however, the two most popular open source database packages - MySQL and PostgreSQL - have full featured Windows installations, and can be run on most Windows p... Jan. 8, 2007  Reads: 10,310

Where's i-Technology Headed in 2007? At the end of each year, when SYS-CON informally polls its globe-girdling network of software developers, industry executives, commentators, investors, writers, and editors, our question is always the same: where's the industry going next year? Jan. 8, 2007  Reads: 15,990

Adopting an Open Source Approach to Software Development, Distribution, and Licensing 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  Reads: 13,717  Replies: 2

Building a Sustainable Open Source Business Terracotta took a major step this month by open sourcing all of our Java clustering technology. We believe that this step will make a powerful clustering option readily available to the Java community and indeed could help make the notion of clustering itself simpler and more ubiquitou... Jan. 5, 2007  Reads: 12,208  Replies: 1

The Development Power of Open Source AJAX Tooling Understanding the complexity of AJAX at the browser level is critical to refining and debugging rich AJAX applications that leverage Web technologies such as JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and XMLHttpRequests. Adding a third-party AJAX runtime heightens the complexity and su... Jan. 4, 2007  Reads: 14,357  Replies: 2

EOS Editorial — Linux Everywhere This has been an exciting month for proponents of the Linux server. Two of the world's largest software companies have started to provide Linux support and services. As you probably already know, on October 25, Oracle announced that they would be selling their own derivative of Red Hat... Jan. 3, 2007  Reads: 12,826