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By Fadi Nasser  Virtualization adoption in the desktop and datacenter space has been rampant over the past few years given the popular benefits that the technology has to offer. Classical virtualization benefits are numerous and result in savings on many levels. The ability to host multiple server env... Oct. 24, 2008 08:00 AM Reads: 630 | By James Irwin  Recently, I have had the opportunity to work with a number of clients on their strategy to leverage the advantages that open source can achieve across their IT organizations. I found the major motivator and attention getter for open source adoption is the promise to cut costs; but incr... Oct. 15, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 1,164 Replies: 1 | By Saurav Chetia; Pradeep D  In today's competitive world, the most important presence for a corporation is their website. It not only acts as a face for the company but also as an interface enabling its clients, users, and prospects to communicate with the company. As websites are accessible to users via thin cli... Jul. 25, 2008 04:30 PM Reads: 2,185 | By Yann Dietrich  Why is the 'collaborative source' development approach uniquely suited and required to drive innovation in the mobile-communications software stack? What are the early fruits of its impact? Out of the principles of open source and the particular market and legal constraints of the tele... Jun. 13, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 2,642 | By Deb Woods  Appliances. The very word is emblematic of stability and strength. Think of the appliances in your kitchen. Unless you're particularly unlucky, 99.9% of the time your refrigerator, stove and dishwasher just work. You don't have to give it a second thought. When we talk about software a... Jun. 6, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 2,179 | By Michael Anderson  Last summer, a group of technical experts from various open source companies came together under the banner of the Open Solutions Alliance, rolled out an enterprise-class application, and demonstrated the power of collaboration with the launch of the Common Customer View project, an in... May. 1, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 2,106 | By Roger Castillo  Enterprise networks are growing increasingly complex. Over the past five years, the increased focus on unified security, network optimization, and application acceleration has resulted in an explosion of new technologies, specialty devices, and vendors. The proliferation of high-speed ... Feb. 26, 2008 06:00 AM Reads: 6,609 | By Anil Uberoi  The introduction of Linux into the data center has brought with it the promise of a new level of cost-efficiency and flexibility for enterprise data center environments. IT professionals prefer Linux for their data centers because it's highly customizable and can be adapted to address ... Jan. 17, 2008 09:00 AM Reads: 5,357 | By Rod Cope  Linux tends to take center stage when it comes to support and other services for enterprise open source users. However, there are literally thousands of other solid open source packages available that perform a wide variety of functions. Unfortunately, there's a real lack of informatio... May. 3, 2007 04:15 PM Reads: 24,249 Replies: 2 | By Stu Mitchell  This article presents a simple and inexpensive methodology for predicting the performance of a client/server application over a wide area network. A network emulator, placed between the client and server, is used to vary key network properties, such as latency, bandwidth and packet los... Nov. 10, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 16,356 | By Stephen Walli  Sun Microsystems recently announced its intentions of finally publishing Java under an Open Source license. But what does that actually mean? We'll take a quick look at what it means to be 'Open Source,' how the Java language specification compares to other more formal language standar... Oct. 21, 2006 03:00 PM Reads: 20,263 | By Kevin Morgan  Linux is the fastest-growing embedded operating environment in the world today. It's quickly becoming the single largest operating system platform for embedded computing. As a result, many technology managers must come to grips with the complexity and the dynamics of Open Source softwa... Aug. 7, 2006 12:30 PM Reads: 14,016 |
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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