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July 31, 2008

Does Microsoft Have an Open Source Heart?

Filed under: Open Social — @ 11:05 pm

Microsoft’s open source outreach effort, which started just a few years ago, isn’t dead on arrival, if you hear Sam Ramji, Microsoft’s senior director of platform strategy, talk about it.

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SMACKDOWN :: Who are the Open Source Content Management System (CMS) market leaders in 2008?

Filed under: Open Social — @ 9:55 pm

When it comes with online life we all are using these content management systems in one way or another. We are blogging, we are maintaining websites, we are building websites and we market them. Sometimes we are not experts and we really don’t know what powers these websites, what’s behind them, who actually is doing the backend work. Many times we are just using these software tools.Now it’s time to see which are the most used of these content management systems (shortly called: CMS). I came

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Open Source and Cloud Computing

Filed under: Open Social — @ 4:20 pm

I’ve been worried for some years that the open source movement might fall prey to the problem that Kim Stanley Robinson so incisively captured in Green Mars : ” History is a wave that moves through time …

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Open Source and Social Cloud Computing

Filed under: Open Social — @ 3:21 pm

Tim O’Reilly has written an excellent review post on Open Source and Cloud Computing which says, among other things:The interoperable internet should be the platform, not any one vendor’s private preserve. So here’s my first piece of advice: if you care about open source for the cloud, build on services that are designed to be federated rather than centralized. Architecture trumps licensing any time. But peer-to-peer architectures aren’t as important as open standards and protocols. If services

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Open Source Developers: Who Are Those Guys?

Filed under: Open Social — @ 2:20 pm

BONUS LINKS News Feature By Chris Koch March 15, 2003 - CIO - Worried about trusting your infrastructure to a bunch of shaggy college kids who might bolt at any moment for a yearlong backpacking trip to …

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Introducing Alfresco Labs 3

Filed under: Open Social — @ 12:23 pm

I am pleased to announce the beta release of Alfresco Labs 3, our new version of Alfresco targeted at collaborative content management and the first open source alternative to Microsoft SharePoint. Alfresco Labs 3 is a natural evolution of the Alfresco platform that started with the first preview release of Alfresco three years ago. As Alfresco has grown more powerful in capabilities, we have strived to simplify both usage and development of Alfresco web clients, web sites and web applications.

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Open Source CMS Websites Get Social with KickApps

Filed under: Open Social — @ 12:01 pm

Are you running an open source WCM website that needs a little social interactivity? You can get with it KickApps. The SaaS social media solutions provider has been working hard to provide their services to open source content management solutions like Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. You can learn all about it at the Linux World Expo in San Francisco next week.

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Congratulations, phpMyAdmin! And I bet sys admins are loving you even more!

Filed under: Open Social — @ 10:00 am

phpMyAdmin, the MySQL web based administration tool, won two category awards at 2008 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards! It was close to win the hearts of the developers too, but in the end it was only a finalist (Notepad++ took the cake). The categories in which this web software won are: * Most Likely to Be the Next $1B Acquisition (wow! Well, why not after all? I’m wondering who would buy it though…) * Best Tool or Utility for Sys Admins (you deserve the love, that’s for sure! Bu

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Open Source Food

Filed under: Open Social — @ 6:30 am

If you’re creative, you’ll probably like to cook. If you don’t, well, I’m sure you like to eat and know someone who likes to cook Via: Swissmiss

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Symbian’s Open-Source Foundation

Filed under: Open Social — @ 1:50 am

When it comes to cell-phone software, open is the new black. In less than two years, no fewer than three coalitions have formed with the intent of building mobile handset operating systems with input from all …

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