The British Library and the National Library of New Zealand are working on a open source tool that will help preserve current websites for the future.
As more and more information goes online the race is on to create meaningful digital archives.
The web curator tool automates the process of collecting and storing information.
It will become a […]
A team of US academics has been given $750,000 to study the collaborative process by which open source software is produced:
The team will focus on the Apache Web server, the PostgreSQL database and the Python scripting language. They intend to collect information from message boards, bug reports and e-mail discussion groups to build up a […]
The new open source router series from Vyatta has been winning some serious plaudits from the very network consultants that the company needs to win over if it is to mount a serious challenge for some of the ubiquitous Cisco’s market share.
For Sam Newnam, an open source software consultant and owner of SystemSam Technologies LLC, […]
Down under, something very big has happened very quietly. Kennards Hire, a major machinery rental company, engaged in a massive migration to desktop Linux, the biggest the country has yet seen, with nary a peep from the national media. Steven Deare of ZDNet Australia noticed this and decided to investigate:
[ZDNet] tried to cover the rollout […]
Gervase Markham of Mozilla used his regular column in The Times this week to flag the issue of UK citizens paying twice, once as taxpayers, once as consumers, for data gathered by the UK government.
I was travelling on Virgin Trains over the bank holiday, and thought I’d left my return ticket on the outward train. […]
We’re a couple of days late, but it was Software Freedom Day on Saturday 16th September. South Africa was particularly active in celebrating this auspicious occasion, where they are lucky enough to have a government sufficiently engaged to take note of the date:
“South Africa needs to achieve true transformation that will see all sectors of […]
Inspired, as so often with these things, by the eye-opening usability of Ubuntu Linux, several commentators have changed their tune with regards to Linux’s prospects on the desktop and major media have been bravely asking their readers to give Linux a try.
David Wolf from Seeking Alpha has this to say:
Those of you who have followed […]
Readers who looked at our recent post on the learned journal “Management Science” will be interested in an interview with two of the contributors (hat tip to John Naughton).
Yet another piece about the forthcoming release of Vista, this one from John Naughton, Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University, Observer columnist and “one of us”, notes that
while Microsoft engineers were trudging through their death march, the open source community shipped a series of major upgrades to the […]
We recently blogged a piece from The FT on the behavioural economics of risk (people take less than they should, apparently).
Hope then, that not too many people catch this piece from Silicon.com on the subject of the risks OSS adoption poses to companies.
Matt Asay at InfoWorld took umbrage at some of the assertions […]
Forbes Magazine, the self-proclaimed “tool of captalism”, has been taking a look at the role of OSS in creating a “cheap revolution” - note that it won’t be free, one has to make money after all - and focusing on the potential for disruption and threats to established companies.
There are articles on the threat to […]
Kings College School in Cambridge recently switched to an open source network infrastructure in partnership with Sirius Corporation. The move was not just an exercise in saving money - the move has also saved the IT staff precious time. Wendy Harris, the network manager at the school, said:
“Without open source we would spend our […]
The Financial Times has a rather philosophical column this week on the growing academic acceptance of the idea that human beings have a tendency to behave rather less rationally than traditional economic theory expects. We are more risk averse than we perhaps should be, it seems, and have tendency to underestimate the benefits and overestimate […]
The LinuxWorld conference and expo kicked off in San Francisco last week with a number of large companies making announcements about their future Linux and open source strategies.
IBM announced a partnership with startup Transitive with which it aims to increase the range of software available for customers running Linux on it’s Power processors. Widely touted […]