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While there is never any shortage of hope in the world of technology, perhaps the largest gusher in the last 20 years came from two words: open source, a term that is too large for one column (too big for most books, in fact).
This week JargonSpy takes a trip back in time to understand how [...]

While there is never any shortage of hope in the world of technology, perhaps the largest gusher in the last 20 years came from two words: open source, a term that is too large for one column (too big for most books, in fact).
This week JargonSpy takes a trip back in time to understand how [...]

Having failed to come to an agreement on licensing its Flash technology for the iPhone, Adobe has joined Apple rival Nokia in a $10 million fund aimed at forcing the issue.
Publicly, Adobe is saying its problems with Apple are all technical. But if the Open Screen Project, which is managing the fund, delivers on its [...]

Today, nearly every corner of the world faces the challenge of a stagnant or shrinking economy. Bleak economic forecasts, shrinking budgets and increasing pressure on businesses and governments to meet the needs of their customers and constituents—often with less resources to do so—are becoming commonplace. While I’m not naïve enough to suggest a “one-size-fits-all” cure [...]

Over time, software applications grow, sometimes becoming so complex that one hand of the enterprise doesn’t have a grip or know what the other hand is doing to track how the application is laid out.
In the collaborative environment that under-girds open source software development, getting a grip on the project’s architecture — or tracking who [...]

The most surprising thing about George Osborne’s recent Open Source announcements was the lack of backlash.
That the UK’s Conservative Party, possibly the next government, have endorsed a report that they comissioned, a report that recommends Open Standards, Open Procurement and Open Source as the pillars of a Conservative Government’s Public Sector IT policy was, on [...]

The SAS Institute has borrowed a page from Sesame Street. It is now sponsoring the letter ‘R.’
Last month, I wrote an article about the rising popularity of the R programming language. The open-source software has turned into a favorite piece of technology for statisticians and other people looking to pull insights out of data.
On several [...]