ION: Open Source Comes to GPS
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| Open source as a concept for software development has been around for some
| years. As the nonprofit Open Source Initiative puts it, open source is
| a "development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed
| peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better
| quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to
| predatory vendor lock-in."
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http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/Latest+News/ION-Open-Source-Comes-to-GPS/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/460902?contextCategoryId=1385
Building a cheap and powerful intrusion-detection system
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| Commercial network-based IDS can often be quite expensive. On the other hand,
| there is the common perception that implementing an open-source IDS is
| complicated. Recently, I had the opportunity to install an open-source IDS
| and found the opposite to be true. You can easily build a powerful open
| source-based IDS in less than a day, as I did.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9039118
Open Source Software for Corporate IT
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| Where proprietary software often has two or three dominant players, there are
| likely to be hundreds - even thousands - of small open source projects
| underway to address a particular need. Projects are usually run by
| individuals or small unknown companies without the capacity or local presence
| to engage in traditional one-on-one sales and marketing relationships. This
| is one reason why costs are so low but it also puts an additional burden on
| the customer, who is responsible for exploring a sea of choices to identify a
| likely candidate.
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http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/431804_p.htm
The Melting Pot
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| The most successful open source companies such as MySQL, Red Hat, SugarCRM,
| and Zimbra all do this to a certain extent, albeit in a stylistically
| different way than pure commercial companies. The sooner an open source
| company comes to grip with the reality that it needs to practice standard
| marketing techniques such as segmentation, target marketing, and direct
| marketing, the better it will be.
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http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/431546.htm
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