Using Open Source to Solve Business ProblemsRE: Using Open Source to Solve Business ProblemsOpen source networks working with collaborative logistics principles are the future of the web. These strategies produce emergent business networks, decentralized decision making and innovation incubation...all things that Fortune 1000 companies fear. They have good...
When your business is confronted with an intractable problem, where do you turn to solve it? Lob it over the wall to R&D? Bring in the consultants? Your best solution might be to present your problem to a network of smart strangers that attack it from their...
Online meetings can be an ideal way to connect with team members or even clients. DimDim offers free Web-based meetings for up to 20 people, and the attendees don't even need to install any software. A DimDim meeting can include audio and video conferencing,...
IDG's InfoWorld, the leading integrated media brand for IT solutions management, today announced the full keynote and presenter lineup for the fifth year of the Open Source Business Conference OSBC, taking place March 25-26, 2008 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The premier event for open source software and...
Lotus Symphony is a free office suite for Windows and Linux. It rivals Microsoft Office, offering business-caliber word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. And it's no longer in beta: IBM just announced Symphony's official 1.0 release. Though built on an OpenOffice core, Symphony bears little...
Seems like just a month ago that Microsoft Office competitor OpenOffice.org trotted out version 2.4. Today the open-source office suite debuted its long-awaited 3.0 version albeit in beta form, adding native support for Mac OS X, import filters for Office 2007, an updated interface, and countless other tweaks and...
Before you spend hundreds of dollars on the latest version of Microsoft Office, consider a less-expensive alternative: OpenOffice, which offers business-caliber word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, and drawing. Because it's open-source software, it doesn't cost a penny. The latest version, 2.4, adds a host of minor fixes...
Thumb drives are great for transporting data, but did you ever stop to think about what would happen if the drive got lost or stolen? If it contains sensitive information, you could have a serious problem on your hands. Enter TrueCrypt, an open-source encryption utility that password-protects the data on...
Remember Lotus Symphony, the free office suite introduced by IBM last September? It's like a kinder, gentler version of OpenOffice (meaning it's nicer-looking and more user-friendly than the popular open-source suite). IBM just took the wraps off a new beta, bringing a host of new features and bug fixes to...
Yes, that was an easy one--they are all open source OS products, of course, and they are all well known, well respected, and widely deployed. Odds are very good you're using some of them every day, although you may not even realize it. ...
A few days back, David posted the tantalizing news about DocSyncer, which syncs your Microsoft Office documents with Google Docs. Alas, the service was in private beta testing at the time, meaning you had to request an invitation. As of today, however, DocSyncer has reached public beta status, meaning anyone...
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EnterpriseDB, maker of the world's most affordable enterprise-class database , announced today that it has joined other leading open source companies to establish a non-profit industry organization called the Open Solutions Alliance OSA. The mission of the OSA is to promote enterprise adoption of open source-based business solutions. Together,...
Open-source software has a lot going for it. It's free, it's constantly being improved upon, and it doesn't rely on proprietary formatting. (Did I mention it's free?) Unfortunately, it can also be confusing to figure out which programs are worthwhile and which ones you need to be a programmer to...
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