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Mobile communications depends on the availability of service. Not only have carriers been using Linux in their network equipment for years, they also are incorporating open source software into the middleware layer of the stack. It’s key to maintain open and reliable standards for the health of the networks.
You may be thinking “who needs another [...]

Commercial databases can be costly and restrictive, but companies large and small are increasingly looking to open source databases to increase flexibility and bring down costs. Here are 10 tips for IT professionals who are thinking about implementing an open source
Harvesting, querying, delivering, enriching and analyzing data is at the heart of every business. [...]

One of the great promises of software is its infinite malleability: software can be whatever you want, so long as you have the skills necessary (and legal rights) to modify it.
Despite this promise, software has long sought to replicate physical goods: mass-produced with customization, if any, coming post-sale by a system integrator or other consultant. [...]

Mobile application development projects bring in more money than other types of open source software development, a study found. The survey was based on “extensive interviews” of 380 developers involved in open source Linux projects, says Dublin, Ireland, based research firm Research and Markets.
Though generally focused on enterprise and desktop Linux development, the survey also [...]

The Cloud Tools project, hosted on Google Code, is a prime example of the emerging trend of open-source application developers targeting the cloud and looking at services such as Amazon Web Services solutions and Google App Engine to host their applications. Cloud Tools is a set of tools for deploying, managing and testing Java Enterprise [...]

The co-founder of Sun Microsystems and one of the most respected business leaders in Silicon Valley, Scott McNealy, claims that an open source government will save money and be more secure. McNealy stated that “Open source does not require you to pay a penny to Microsoft or IBM or Oracle or any proprietary vendor any [...]

Obama has asked Sun cofounder Scott McNealy to prepare a paper about the potential cost benefits of adopting open source software in government IT. Although open source adoption would be a smart cost-cutting move, McNealy isn’t exactly a fount of wisdom on the subject.
In an effort to reduce rising government IT costs, the Obama
administration could [...]

It’s nice to read what open-source vendors think of open source: it’s easy, cheap, and quite possibly the cure for cancer. (That last one is my personal hope.)
However, it’s much more useful to get real customer feedback on open source. That’s what makes Mercian Labels’ shift to open source–with all the benefits and negatives that [...]

The growing category of very inexpensive laptops, spearheaded by netbooks and One Laptop Per Child’s vision of the $100 laptop, may soon have another offering.
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, who voiced an open call last July for a “dead simple touchscreen Web tablet that boots right into the browser,” costs $200, and is open source, has reported [...]

The incoming president of an alliance of open-source companies hopes he can persuade big-name proprietary ISVs to join rivals in his group to further interoperability.
Recently named Open Solutions Alliance president Anthony Gold told The Reg that his goal is to take the two-year-old organization to the “next level” by turning it into a destination for [...]