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Calling All SMEs Who Need Help Understanding Their Business Assets
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| Open source software is now much more
| widely available than ever before, and
| many of the tools are robust and reliable.
| Names such as Apache, ProtÃgà and Linux
| are well known and respected in the
| industry. There are, however, a couple of
| points to be aware of before going down
| the open source route.
|
| Firstly, open source does not necessarily
| mean free of charge. Open source means
| that you are free to use the software and
| change and redistribute the source code
| under certain license conditions. So, to
| coin a phrase often used by the open
| source community, open source software is
| free as in speech, not as in beer!
| However, many open source software
| packages are also free of charge, but it
| is worth checking this as some require a
| fee and some only provide a basic version
| free of charge, with useful add-ons
| requiring a fee.
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http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/calling-all-smes-who-need-help-understanding-their-business-assets/?cs=39771
The perfect open-source task scheduler
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| This last point is where you see the real
| problem with a cron-based solution. Cron
| and Task Scheduler were only designed to
| run regular housekeeping tasks on a single
| machine, but when youâre providing a
| service from a collection of machines then
| every single machine is a single point of
| failure.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/355924/the-perfect-open-source-task-scheduler
Intel and Yahoo! spawn open-source 'Tashi' cluster
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| Backed by Yahoo!, HP, and Intel, the
| computer science mavens at Carnegie Mellon
| University have added a new compute
| cluster to the worldwide Open Cirrus test
| bed, a collection of clusters designed to
| explorer the frontiers of interwebs-scale
| distributed computing.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/27/carnegie_mellon_open_cirrus_cluster/
Recent:
11 open source business models
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| Telling people to pay you and go away worked
| for an amazingly long time. It sounds like it
| shouldnât. It sounds a bit like theft. But
| software is a miracle, and for decades EULA
| Ware was the only model there was.
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| Open source companies, on the other hand, they
| have to use their imagination.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5371
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