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[News] Free Software and GNU/Linux Are Changing the IT Landscape

  • Subject: [News] Free Software and GNU/Linux Are Changing the IT Landscape
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:29:44 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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How open source will transform the coming decade

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| Which companies top the annual satisfaction 
| survey of CIO Magazine? Red Hat and Google, the 
| largest supplier and user of open source 
| software, respectively.
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http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/thinking-tech/how-open-source-will-transform-the-coming-decade/1872/

8 Flexible, Open-Source (or Just Open) Telephony Resources

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| Sure, youâre up on Android smartphones and 
| perhaps other Linux-based phone platforms, but 
| the freewheeling world of open source includes 
| many hugely useful telephony applications and 
| platforms that are more unusual. There are 
| useful offerings for businesses and consumers, 
| and you can download and start using many of 
| them for free. Here are eight flexible choices, 
| including several brand new ones.
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http://gigaom.com/2009/10/22/8-flexible-open-source-or-just-open-telephony-resources/


Recent:

Former Red Hat execs aim to open-source health care

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| That someone appears to be Joanne Rohde, former executive vice president of
| worldwide operations at Red Hat, who has launched the Axial Project, a
| stealth-mode start-up that aims to "combin[e] the principles of Open
| Standards and Open Source...to connect all the parties in the Health
| ecosystem safely and securely."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10280095-16.html


Open-source Lucene threatens Microsoft, Google enterprise search

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| You spend $1.2 billion to acquire enterprise search leader FAST in January
| 2008 and then another $100 million on semantic search vendor Powerset in July
| 2008, only to have the excellent Apache's Lucene, an open-source search
| project, and Solr, an enterprise search server based on Lucene, offer better
| performance at a 100 percent discount.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10288143-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad


Four Open Source Mind Mapping Apps to Keep You Focused

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| Mind mapping tools are among the unsung heroes of project management. They're
| often overlooked or underused because some people mistakenly believe the
| learning curve is too steep or the features are unnecessary. Most mind
| mapping software is easy to use, however, and the applications are a great
| way to keep track of projects, research, book notes, and brainstorming
| sessions.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/four-open-source-mind-mapping-apps-to-keep-you-focused


Apache Lucene Helps Online European Library Open Its Virtual Doors

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| When a group of European museums joined together to put images of all of
| their paintings, drawings, sculptures, photos and other artifacts together in
| a centralized, online collection for the world to view, they turned to open
| source enterprise search software to make it happen.
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http://linux.com/news/enterprise/storage/27414-apache-lucene-story


Kors Engineering Launches NiagaraAX Open Source Project

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| Kors Engineering, a premier service provider for manufacturing and industrial
| organizations, today announced it is launching a NiagaraAX open source
| project to develop and share software modules based on the Tridium NiagaraAX
| Baja API.
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http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2009/4/prweb2309564.htm
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