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Open Source Downloads: the Monster List
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| As demonstrated by the nearly 500 open source
| downloads on this list, open source software
| has benefited from an explosion of creativity
| in the last several years. Indeed, the first
| decade of the 21st century could be called âthe
| Decade of Open Source.â
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| Since 2006, Datamation has put together at
| least 15 different lists of open source
| software, for file sharing, enterprises, small
| businesses, windows users, netbooks, security
| professionals, and others. (And check out the
| hot new open source list from late 2009). For
| this list of open source downloads, we
| revisited all those applications that we've
| featured before, culled out the projects that
| are no longer active (or no longer open
| source), made updates, and organized them
| alphabetically in categories.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3854601/Open-Source-Downloads-the-Monster-List.htm
Recent:
- From Free to Recovery
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| As my fellow OSI board member (and report draft author
| Rishab Ghosh) explains "If you cannot quantify these
| exit costs, then you should limit them. If you cannot
| limit them, then you either need other software, or you
| need better criteria." When the question is "How do we
| wasting $1T USD per year on ITC spending?", the answer
| is that we're using inferior tools when superior tools
| are available. When the question is "Why are we wasting
| so much year after year after year?" the answer is
| proprietary lock-in that was never part of our initial
| procurement calculations. I have spoken with
| procurement people around the world in both the public
| and private sectors, and the single best way we can
| help them do the best job is for a line of business (or
| a public adminstrations) to communicate clearly and
| concretely the message that exit costs are real costs,
| and should be considered in all tenders. They have the
| necessary expertise to see that those costs are
| properly evaluated in the context of future
| procurements.
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http://opensource.org/node/471
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