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  • Red Hat promises open-source virtualisation technology

    By 2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises are expected to use open source technology in direct or embedded forms, according to research firm, Gartner.
    Contrary to some perceptions that open source businesses are unprofitable, Red Hat has achieved significant earnings in this area, according to Gery Messer, president of Red Hat Asia Pacific.

    Written by Jared Heng21 Oct. 08 22:00
  • The three open-source challenges: Cloud computing, open web and mobile

    "We have come into real contention [for mindshare] in the enterprise," said Tim O'Reilly, CEO at O'Reilly Media, in his keynote address at OSCON, this week's Open Source convention in Portland, Oregon. "So we should be patting ourselves on the back, right? I'm not so sure."

    Written by Esther Schindler24 July 08 22:00
  • Open source is entering the enterprise mainstream

    Open-source solutions used to be adopted quietly by company boffins who snuck in an Apache Web server or an open-source development tool suite under the philosophy "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission" (not to mention "It's easier to do it with open-source tools than to get an IT budget").

    Written by Esther Schindler08 June 08 22:00
  • Losing the fear factor around open source ERP

    Can open source software find a home in mission critical systems? Based on momentum in the open source ERP market, it's starting to look that way, particularly for IT leaders at midmarket and smaller enterprises.

    Written by Robert Lemos23 April 08 22:00
  • A virtual world for internal collaboration

    During the past couple of years, virtual worlds have received a lot of media attention, especially Second Life, the virtual environment created by Linden Lab that 1.3 million people actively use to play games, do business and live alter egos via their avatar stand-ins.
    But when Sun Microsystems thought about how it could use a virtual world to improve internal collaboration and facilitate social interactions among its 33,000 employees, spread out across offices around the world and in numerous home telecommuting sites, it began to think about building its own virtual world behind the firewall.

    Written by C.G. Lynch15 Jan. 08 22:00