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Financial firm trades in OpenView for open source
HP's OpenView suite didn't cure the IT monitoring headaches at one California risk management company. But open source GroundWork did. Article
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OSBC director: Linux, open source profitable, stable and on the minds of CIOs
Open Source Business Conference director Matt Asay weighs in on the changing face of open source and how open source software startups are asking investors to "show them the money." Article
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OpenOffice and MS Office data conversion
Office suite consultant Solveig Haugland explains data conversion in macros with OpenOffice 2.0 and MS Office. Ask the Expert
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Mass. plan to dump MS Office for OpenDocument a 'matter of control'
Massachusetts' plan to standardize on OpenDocument -- a move that shuts out Microsoft Office from the state's buying process -- essentially amounts to a desktop application power play, says one expert. Article
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BRR group bringing order to open source chaos
A new standard group tasked with rating OSS projects may have a way to change the chaos of the open source project world. Article
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Microsoft-JBoss deal strictly business
Does a pledge of greater cooperation between Microsoft and JBoss Inc. mean that Redmond is finally warming up to the idea of open source software? Not really, says one analyst. Article
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Don't cry for Siebel: Why industry consolidation means open source savings for CIOs
Consolidation in the proprietary business applications market can work to the advantage of chief information officers seeking a deal on the open source alternatives. Article
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Golden's Rules: Your new open source app -- a PBX
One of the most exciting things about open source is the way it can be used to create applications that fall outside the traditional IT infrastructure stack. A case in point is the telephony application called Asterisk. Asterisk is a very full-featur... Tip
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Firefox 1.5 gets the sniff test
Will the latest incarnation of Mozilla's wildly popular browser calm recent concerns about buggy code? Two users weigh in. Article
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Red Hat Linux centralizes Bryant University IT
The Bryant University campus IT department was slow and inefficient behind a wall of multiple vendors and sluggish servers -- until Red Hat Linux came along. Article