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By Jeff Davis  The open source community includes many early advocates of the recent wave of emerging SOA-related technology projects. Historically, however, open source has sometimes been considered a "late follower," with commercial products first to hit the market, and then followed by "me-too" op... Nov. 12, 2008 12:35 PM Reads: 624 | By S G Ganesh  Any large Java source base can have insidious and subtle bugs. Every experienced Java programmer knows that finding and fixing these bugs can be difficult and costly. Fortunately, there are a large number of free open source Java tools available that can be used to find and fix defects... May. 16, 2008 11:45 AM Reads: 10,057 | By Dirk Morris  Is software development a science or an art? The software industry treats it as a science. It uses processes like MRDs, PRDs, and functional specs to convert customer needs into software that solves their problems. Various roles like product managers, engineering managers, project mana... Apr. 27, 2008 08:45 AM Reads: 14,648 | By Richard Monson-Haefel  The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li... Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM Reads: 20,242 Replies: 6 | By Anatoly Krivitsky  One of the beauties of Linux from a business point of view is that it doesn't require the 'latest and greatest' hardware to run properly. This means you can increase the return on investments (ROI) for legacy hardware. As I'll show in this article, as in the case with virtualization, t... Mar. 12, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 5,797 | By Will Pugh  One of the most exciting things about the software industry is how fast it moves. Software is constantly optimizing itself around the state-of-the-art. Inherent industry bottlenecks change cyclically every five years or so. Architectures and solutions change too. CPUs too costly? Enter... Feb. 4, 2008 05:45 AM Reads: 5,501 | 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: 6,110 | By Phani Raj Raghavendra  High-performance databases are optimized for transaction processing and used by several industries around the world, notably financial services and health care. They are more commonly available on 32-bit Unix platforms (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Linux). The trend is to 64-bit-enable the... Jan. 28, 2008 10:15 AM Reads: 5,354 | By Haleh Mahbod; Raymond Feng; Simon Laws Many articles have already been written about service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Service Component Architecture (SCA), for example, see references [1] and [2]. In this article we'll focus on a freely available, open source implementation of the Service Component Architecture that ... Nov. 9, 2007 08:30 AM Reads: 34,226 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan In order to describe itself as an 'open source' company, need a company merely be 'a company that will help you make the switch to open source in your company' - or does it have to be one that lets users feely download, compile, and use the software in question? Where is the dividing l... Mar. 1, 2007 05:00 AM Reads: 76,893 Replies: 18 | By Kevin Sawicki  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 02:00 PM Reads: 14,327 Replies: 2 | By Enterprise Open Source News Desk The team at ATTAP Technologies announced that it is previewing Jitsu, a new web-development framework. Jitsu is an open source user-interface toolkit that enables developers to build and deploy sophisticated user interfaces for web applications. Jitsu tools include an XML markup langua... Jun. 27, 2006 04:15 PM Reads: 12,846 Replies: 1 | By Red Hat News Desk Red Hat , provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, announced compatibility certification with Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language definitions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 security advisories. Red Hat will now produce and support OVAL patch definitions to prov... Jun. 22, 2006 12:30 PM Reads: 7,609 | By Boris Minkin  We'll build a servlet that will demo some new Java 5.0 features and do some basic tasks like creating a session to track user visits to multiple Web pages. This code can easily be extended to store a user ID in the session that will travel with her as the site is navigated. The value o... Jan. 7, 2006 01:15 PM Reads: 88,725 Replies: 13 |
YOUR FEEDBACK  | By Joe Ruck Nick Kelly wrote: Interesting article from a oracle ERP developers point of view I note that you could decide to write a saas application with open source technology eg Linux operating system, Postgresql database and a scripting langauge rendering html pages. The weak point is still the same and that is creating a bu... | | By James Irwin Bíró Tamás wrote: Great article. I hope many enterprise customers read it. My comment is that the term open source, is too generic. This mistake is often made by many people.
Open source software can be quite different, first, they can be low level as OS-es, databases; they can be lightweight like libraries or co... | | By Coach Wei arun wrote: Hi
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Please look into... | | By James Hamilton Joe Zibrosky wrote: What in the world does this have to do with opensource? Once again, losers like you feel free to inject your political biases in places where they don't belong. What a jerk. | | By Maureen O'Gara Gregor Rosenauer wrote: well, not what's your take on this? Did I miss a second page of this article or something? Seems a bit unfinished... |
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