GroundWork Open Source unveils IT monitoring app for Ubuntu Linux
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| GroundWork Open Source Inc.'s free IT infrastructure monitoring software is
| available now for the first time for Ubuntu Linux and other Debian-based
| Linux operating systems.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9045937&source=rss_news50
GroundWork -- not quite open source at all, let alone Free.
Thoughts on Open Source, Data Services, and Integration
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| If these points are not considered on a daily basis, the code does not have
| the level of modularity and simple APIs that are needed to facility
| bazaar-style development. Even the best intentions of new, external
| developers can be frustrated by unnecessary prerequisites. And as anyone
| trying to build a community knows: The most important ingredient is to make
| it easy to join and get started. In our case here this means: Make it easy to
| be productive and achieve the rewarding feeling of success.
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| The funny thing is: The importance of modularization, APIs and encapsulation
| is taught in every entry-level class for software design. We all know that
| already. And yet, unless we internalize and continuously remember the lessons
| that successful distributed projects can teach us, it remains exceedingly
| easy for our co-located, 100% committed teams to end up producing code that
| is just not suitable for a bazaar.
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http://blog.snaplogic.org/?p=112
Toshiba Standardizes on CCS Technology at 65nm to Improve Accuracy and Designer
Productivity
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| ...Toshiba Corporation has standardized on the open source Liberty(TM)
| Composite Current Source (CCS) modeling technology for its CMOS5/TC320C
| 65-nanometer (nm) production libraries.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQTU05306112007-1.htm
What on earth is open source Liberty(TM)? Anything like GPL(R)? Where is OSI?
Related:
Misys aims to open source healthcare, but forgets the source
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| What benefits will Misys derive from open source if it doesn't engage an
| external development community? Microsoft and others have been sharing source
| for some time, under proprietary licenses. That's not open source, and I
| don't believe that is what Misys has in mind. So why not do more than issue
| bold press releases? Open source is not marketing. It's an extended
| engagement with a community larger than any one person or company.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9803622-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Using open source as a marketing ploy
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| This is typical trend riding fluff. If you go the Aras website you
| read about "Microsoft Enterprise Open Source Solutions", which is
| comical in and of itself.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/more_open_sourc.html
Will The Real Open Source CRM Please Stand Up?
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| Dana Blankenhorn's story How far can open source CRM get? has finally
| pushed me to respond to the many people who have asked "When is the
| OSI going to stand up to companies who are flagrantly abusing the term
| 'open source'?" The answer is: starting today.
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http://opensource.org/node/163
After 10 years: What is Open Source?
http://www.libervis.com/article/after_10_years_what_is_open_source
Little red hens of open source CRM
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| The people who “steal” your software get almost no value from it. The
| value of business software comes out only when you work with it, when
| you tweak it, when you support it. All open source licenses, especially
| the GPL, protect a program creator’s rights to extract this added value.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1153
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