September 7th, 2009
By now most business people have an idea of what open source software is and how it is now considered an option when choosing your next solution for your business. The question is; is it right for your business especially if your business is small and doesn’t have a full time IT team to assist you. We will explore the issues surrounding choosing an Open Source solution.
Open Source Solutions have different origins and business models
Open source is a catch all for software solutions that provide the software for free. But they are not all created with the [...]
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August 21st, 2009
I just finished reading the report on the development of the Linux kernel. The study reported on such items as; who is developing the source code, who pays those developers, how many lines of code are added, changed and deleted per release. The detailed report can be found at Linux Development Report . Give it a read not so much for the sheer number of numbers, but for the way companies can work together.
The new report is written by original authors and kernel developers Jonathan Corbet and Greg Kroah-Hartman, and the Linux Foundation’s Amanda McPherson. It is released by the [...]
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