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11 May 2012
Open source Java moving to Linux, AIX on PowerPC
SAP-steered proposal brings OpenJDK to new platforms
10 May 2012
Open source for an open government
MAILBAG A roundup of some of your recent comments on our coverage of the debate over open-source software in the Canadian government
09 May 2012
Wide-open search
As data volume explodes, open-source search applications make a move toward the enterprise
04 May 2012
Oracle and Google tussle over Android profits
The judge hearing the case told the court that Google lost money on Android throughout 2010
27 Apr 2012
Open source is driving business app dev: survey
While usage is on the rise, many companies lack key internal controls and processes, software firm Sonatype warns
20 Apr 2012
Microsoft edges closer to open-source community
Microsoft has had a notoriously rocky historical relationship with the open-source community but the recent creation of a specialized Open Technologies spinoff has brokered some change
13 Apr 2012
Cloud Foundry is like Linux for the cloud: VMware
The company claims the focus is on letting developers write code, not manage middleware
13 Apr 2012
Microsoft forms unit to engage open source community
The new business unit, called Microsoft Open Technologies, will address the gap between Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies
30 Mar 2012
Open source code libraries rife with vulnerabilities
More than a third of the 1,261 versions of 31 popular open-source code libraries were found to have known vulnerabilities
23 Mar 2012
Choose a server for your small business
Thinking of buying a server for your growing business, but don't know where to start?
06 Feb 2012
Kernel guru Greg Kroah-Hartman joins Linux Foundation
Former Suse fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman will continue to work on Linux in his new role
12 Jan 2012
Linux Takes on a Bigger Role at This Year's CES
From Ubuntu TV to Qooq for the kitchen, a gaggle of upcoming gadgets will be powered by Linux--and that's not even counting Android
22 Dec 2011
Hadoop challenger works to add developers
Parallel processing data platform called HPCC Systems has now been open-sourced. Now there's a fight over its power
14 Dec 2011
Azure hosts Hadoop, other open-source apps
It's only available for trial now, but Microsoft's cloud service will let users give open-source data analysis platform a drive
02 Dec 2011
Google's Android 4.0 ported to AMD x86 processors
Following ARM, an open-source project has ported Google's Android 4.0 to work on a tablet with an AMD chip
02 Dec 2011
Are DuckDuckGo's Bing ties problematic for Linux Mint?
Mint's new default search engine shows an anti-open source bias, some have charged
01 Sep 2011
Hackers break into Linux source code site
But Linux geeks say that the kernel source code, distributed from the hacked Kernal.org, is secure
17 Aug 2011
Dell expects Windows 8 and Android to boost tablet sales
The company said early results of Windows 8 on its tablets have been promising. It plans to make new tablet models based on both OSs
19 Jul 2011
Joomla updates platform for more than content management
Joomla’s new version 1.7 can be used as a general-purpose Web application development platform now that the open source company has redesigned it to support jobs beyond just Web content management
14 Jun 2011
Infobright, Jaspersoft, Ingres’s new open source analytics
The slew of separate announcements for open source data warehousing and analytics from the three vendors broaden the options for IT departments
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Analysis: Taking the heat at BlackBerry World
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The social media skill sets a CIO's staff will need
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Ottawa Hospital goes mobile with IBM middleware
By: Brian Bloom (04 May 2012)
Ottawa Hospital has been one of the boldest health care institutions in North America in equipping clinical staff with Apple Inc.’s ...
Shaw wins Internet deal with city of Winnipeg
By: Howard Solomon (16 May 2012)
Shaw Communications has scored a big win in its campaign to extend its services to municipalities. The Calgary-based cableco won a bidding contest to ...
Open source Java moving to Linux, AIX on PowerPC
By: Paul Krill (11 May 2012)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Open source Java will be brought to the PowerPC architecture for Linux and IBM's AIX OS under a proposal floated lastweek that could ...
Canadian employee survey indicates dark view of cloud
By: Shane Schick (5/16/2012 2:41:00 PM)
If Canadian enterprises are using cloud computing, their employees may be the last to know. A recent research bulletin from Toronto-based Pollara of ...
Consumerization trends hit IT service management
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Attendees at ServiceNow's Knowledge12 user conference here this week were abuzz about the promise of social collaboration and mobile enablement within ...
SAP launches Visual Intelligence for casual BI users
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Unified communications still fragmented
By: Bob Violino (5/16/2012 10:17:00 AM)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - Unified communications (UC) technology has garnered a fair amount of attention, much of it due to vendors touting their UC offerin ...
Shaw wins Internet deal with city of Winnipeg
By: Howard Solomon (5/16/2012 10:02:00 AM)
Shaw Communications has scored a big win in its campaign to extend its services to municipalities. The Calgary-based cableco won a bidding contest to ...
Open source Java moving to Linux, AIX on PowerPC
By: Paul Krill (11 May 2012)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Open source Java will be brought to the PowerPC architecture for Linux and IBM's AIX OS under a proposal floated lastweek that could ...
Consultant says critical infrastructure at risk
By: Sean Martin (07 May 2012)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Cybercriminals have already figured out how to hack into enterprise infrastructure, and the critical infrastructure that con ...
SAP fires back against Oracle's HANA 'falsehoods'
By: Chris Kanaracus (04 May 2012)
BOSTON -- SAP's technology chief has given a strong rebuttal to a recent presentation by an Oracle executive that was critical of SAP's HANA in-m ...
Open-source in government can save billions: group
By: Brian Bloom (04 May 2012)
On the eve of its 10-year anniversary, a Canadian advocacy group for open-source software in government says it’s closer to achieving its goal: ...
Google's BigQuery made to crunch big data
By: Thor Olavsrud (08 May 2012)
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. --Few companies in the world have access to datasets as large as Google does, and, unsurprisingly, Google is one of the companies at ...
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