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Atechnocrat Solution Launched the Dedicated Open Source Development and Web Hosting Services

Internet: Atechnocrat Solution Launched the Dedicated Open Source Development and Web Hosting Services

Selecting an Open Source Operating System

There's a large selection of free and open source (FOSS) operating systems available these days, and choosing the right one for any given circumstance can be quite a challenge. This article is intended to help you pick the best operating system for your needs and experience level. Although this article is geared primarily toward those who have little to no experience with FOSS operating systems, we've included some pointers for more savvy open source users – say, those who use a FOSS operating system at home and would like to deploy one on the job.

Developing Mission Critical Applications with Open Source BI & Enterprise Reporting

Enterprise adoption of Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) is on the upswing. A 2006 study conducted by Ventana Research shows that Open Source BI is preferred for many mission-critical applications, even when a proprietary BI solution is already deployed enterprise-wide. And while initial implementations are small, very large deployments of 20,000 users or more are in the works.

A Developers How to Strategy (Perspective) on Integrating Open Source BI

Almost every commercially viable business application offers built-in reporting or analytics. Too often, however, the business intelligence (BI) features included with these applications fail to meet customer expectations. At the same time, product managers and developers become increasingly frustrated with home-grown and legacy systems that are far too expensive to develop, manage, and maintain.

Selecting an Open Source Operating System

There's a large selection of free and open source (FOSS) operating systems available these days, and choosing the right one for any given circumstance can be quite a challenge. This article is intended to help you pick the best operating system for your needs and experience level. Although this article is geared primarily toward those who have little to no experience with FOSS operating systems, we've included some pointers for more savvy open source users – say, those who use a FOSS operating system at home and would like to deploy one on the job.

Prototype $200 Tablet Runs Android, Chromium OS, Linux

200 tablet PCs have been something of a pipe dream. There was the Crunchpad, which was supposed to be $200, but that didn’t last very long, coming out as the $400 Joo Joo. If what Freescale showed off at Mobile World Congress becomes reality, though, the dream may finally come true.

Sun's Open-Source Exec Departs In Wake Of Oracle Acquisition

While most of this week's security attention is focused on RSA, our coverage of products seen at HIMSS, health-care IT's biggest annual confab, continues with commanding security products for the vertical.

Mozilla open source license set for facelift

On Wednesday, at a new site dedicated to the license overhaul, the Foundation announced that it's now gathering update suggestions from world+dog and that it hopes to release a completed document by October or November.

Mozilla refreshes its open-source backbone

The Firefox browser and Thunderbird email software are governed by the Mozilla Public License, which determines what rights and restrictions apply to programmers who want to use the software in their own projects, extend it in various ways, or just peek at the programming instructions that underlie the software.

Sun's open-source exec departs in wake of Oracle acquisition

Sun Microsystems' chief open-source officer has left the company in the wake of Oracle's $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun.

Sun's open-source exec departs in wake of Oracle acquisition

Sun Microsystems' chief open source officer has left the company in the wake of Oracle's $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun. Monday was the last day at Sun for Simon Phipps.

Atechnocrat Solution Launched the Dedicated Open Source Development and Web Hosting Services

an SEO Services, Web design and development company launched the dedicated Open Source Development and Web Hosting Services to it's clients and customers.

Open source first, ask questions later

This time it’s ReMail, first acquired, then put on Google Code as open source under the Apache 2.0 license. (It previously did the same thing with DocVerse.)

Suns Open Source Chief Steps Down

Unfortunately, in hard times employees fear change -- rather thsn embracing it and in doing so possi...

Sun's open source chief quites in Oracle merger

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Open-source leader is the first to jump off the Oracle-Sun ship

Now that its acquisition by Oracle is done, leadership changes are taking place within Sun. One of the first is the resignation of Simon Phipps, Sun's chief open source officer for the past decade. Phipps says one of his biggest disappointments was the open-source software business wasn't able to keep Sun moving forward on its own.

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Sun's open source chief leaves following Oracle merger

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OpenOffice vs. MS Office

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Mozilla to update MPL license

The Mozilla Foundation, the organisation behind the popular Firefox web browser, has announced the launch of a new public process to update the Mozilla Public License (MPL), during which a new version of the MPL will be developed. The current Mozilla Public License, version 1.1, is already 10 years old.

Mozilla announces first Jetpack SDK milestone

The Mozilla Labs developers have announced the availability of the first milestone for the Jetpack SDK. The Jetpack SDK allows anyone that knows HTML, CSS and JavaScript to create Firefox add-ons, also known as extensions.

Facebook pushing 'Suicide Machine' into an open-source afterlife

When last we checked in on the Suicide Machine back in January, it was merrily assisting soon-to-be-former members of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn to automatically, speedily -- and ceremoniously -- eliminate the "friends" they had accumulated using those services. More than 3,000 people had bid a virtual farewell to some quarter of a million accumulated acquaintances.

Getting The True GIST of Twitter Loves Open Source

Yes Twitter loves open source, but the force multiplier is that Twitter's love for open source drags the entire ecosystem of social media into loving open source too!

Brazilian BluePex integrates Zarafa's Open Source Collaboration Platform

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