Posts about Open Source Software as of April 2, 2009

Microsoft Office has been available for 20 years and even though there are other alternatives, … , but if it wasn’t so expensive to be legal with proprietary software, much less people would copy … have been true, as all new software programs goes threw the inevitable teething stage. But OpenOffice

Internet sales continue to soar every year. It is now more important than ever to have a professional, … market. There are many open source ecommerce solution are available in the market which is easy to use and user friendly. Top name for such open source are Magento Commerce, OsCommerce, Virtue mart

Highly anticipated open – source releases coming in ’09 Computerworld Kenya, MA Open – source projects, even the well-known ones, … – source software) community is often too busy coding and testing to bother with marketing, even when the new … Read More Via Open Source

It started with a post by Carl Grant on the Federated Search Blog: Beyond Federated Search – Winning the Battle and Losing the War? . I bookmarked this in Delicious and copied this extended quote from the text into the bookmark: I’ve long argued that librarianship on top of digital information is about the

Guy makes iphone app to control his RX-8 Neoseeker The guy who made this app is part of a collabritive group that uses ” … open-source software and cutting edge computer hardware to take automotive computer technology to the next level.” You can find more about this open source auto hacking group at …

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is a partnership of several universities that has produced open-source software to support managing and publishing … the journal publishing system to support the publication of several open access journals. Learn

This week I’m attending the WritersUA 2009 conference in Seattle. Yesterday was day 2 of this very enjoyable conference … a wiki with modular and conditionally publishable content Delivering open-source technical … in the year 2000. Until June 2006, he stayed on as chairman and chief software architect. In June 2006

With their un-organised approach to management and decision making Quakers are the poster children for collaboration, … in the past? BarCamps and other collaborative efforts, like open source software, show how collective … 2.0 & open source communities. One of the most interesting & almost forgotten pieces

Manage Your Content Openly with Designers-X Now the DX(Designers-X) … for anyone, also can be developed an Open Source Software which can be edited, modified and used by any … , animatics, pictures etc in a whole website. Exactly like this, the Open Source Content Management System

When big companies release new software, they launch it with lots of hoopla: press tours, technical conferences, free T-shirts. Open-source projects, even the well-known ones, generally release their major new versions with a lot less fanfare. The FOSS (free and open-source software) community is often too busy coding