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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 | 17 Oct 2005
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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 | 12 Oct 2005
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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 | 10 Oct 2005
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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 | 06 Oct 2005
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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 | 05 Oct 2005
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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 | 05 Oct 2005
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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 | 04 Oct 2005
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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 | 04 Oct 2005
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Like rock n' roll, open source here to stay
Open source software isn't a craze and won't be a short-lived fad in the corporate IT environment. More importantly, OSS isn't being put on the back burner by the corporate world. For every wait-and-see CIO, there are dozens who are eager to leverage... Column | 03 Oct 2005
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Linux gains Clarity with Red Hat and CA
A partnership between Computer Associates and Red Hat has allowed Clarity, CA's popular IT governance application, to reach into the world of open source. Article | 28 Sep 2005