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[News] Open Source Software Acknowledged as the Way to Go in Many Areas

  • Subject: [News] Open Source Software Acknowledged as the Way to Go in Many Areas
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:32:46 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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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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