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Use open source to avoid jail and rescue your weekends
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| The Federation Against Software Theft has apparently published a survey
| indicating that 79% of British company directors “would be happy to avoid
| buying software licences in order to support their company’s balance sheet
| during the current tough economic climate.”
|
| [...]
|
| Open source is another method that could be used to avoid upfront software
| licenses while remaining in compliance with existing licensing requirements.
| Of course, enterprise versions come with a commercial license/subscription
| fee but by the time you have to pay that you should already know whether the
| software fits your requirements or not.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/07/16/use-open-source-to-avoid-jail-and-rescue-your-weekends/
http://tinyurl.com/6ejho2
Investment in OSS are still up.
Zmanda Named Among "Top 10 Storage Start-Ups"
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| Zmanda(TM), the leader in open source backup and recovery software, today
| announced that the editors of Byte and Switch have named the company one of
| the "Top 10 Start-ups to Watch." The quarterly round-up report of the storage
| industry's leading start-ups was released on July 15, 2008.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/zmanda-named-among-top-10/story.aspx?guid=%7B091A2395-C38B-48A5-A461-581A6A56AD52%7D&dist=hppr
http://tinyurl.com/6runm6
OrangeHRM Releases Version 2.4-beta.4 of the Open-Source HR Management System
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| The latest version of OrangeHRM is available free of charge under GNU GPL
| open source license.
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http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/10739.html
Recent:
Linux can save us
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| In case you haven't noticed, the economy is collapsing.
|
| You can't afford to drive anywhere, and, even if you could, you may not have
| a GM car to drive there for much longer. Some of you may be losing your
| houses, and the mortgage companies that gave you that mortgage in the first
| place? IndyMac went down late last week and now the question of the day is
| which major national bank will follow it down.
|
| What does this have to do with Linux? Everything.
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| With both people and companies having to squeeze a nickel's worth of good out
| of every penny, how long do you think people will be paying Microsoft for its
| imperfect operating systems and office suites? Vista Business SP1 'upgrade'
| has a list price of $199.95. Office 2007 Professional is $329.95. That's
| $529.90, or as much as a new low-end PC. Or, I could go with Ubuntu Linux for
| zero money down.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/linux_can_save_us
Microsoft sees slide in profits
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7366106.stm
Microsoft Profit Drops; Forecast May Miss Estimates
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| The world's biggest software maker said sales of Windows for PCs sank 24
| percent and revenue from its online advertising unit came in at the low end
| of its projections. Microsoft's report contrasted with positive comments from
| chipmaker Intel Corp. and computer company International Business Machines
| Corp.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft declined $1.60 to $30.20 in extended trading after closing at
| $31.80 at 4 p.m. New York time on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The stock has
| fallen 11 percent this year.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aQ7_iN1SxJ.c&refer=worldwide
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