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Good and Bad Reasons to Open Source Your Software

By Ibrahim Haddad; Frederic Benard

A company's decision to contribute to open source projects is usually business-driven. This article offers a review of the top reasons that can influence your company to contribute source code to open source or to start new open source projects.

Oct. 1, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 8,739

Five Open Source Applications to Get You Started

By Dirk Morris

For a small business, flexibility and cost are key factors to bear in mind when considering a network threat management solution. Given the cost and inflexibility associated with proprietary vendors, open source solutions may seem like a good option. However, many businesses have tradi...

Jul. 24, 2007 04:45 PM Reads: 9,730 Replies: 1

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	Divide and Conquer: Open Source and SaaS Take on Enterprise Software 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...
	Perspectives on the Value of Open Source 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...
	AjaxWord: An Open Source Web Word Processor By Coach Wei arun wrote: Hi i have gone through your site http://ajax.sys-con.com/node/345840 and found that ajaxword is a very good application. as stated that www.ajaxword.com has all the necessary information and source code for this application, this site (www.ajaxword.com) is not working. Please look into...
	Rupert Murdoch Embarrassed by Fox News and Bill O'Reilly; Will Vote for Obama 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.
	Upstart Seeks To Overthrow OpenOffice 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...