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Open Source Software - Not only Free but Ecofriendly!

Anupam — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:00:48 +0000

This era of technology can be termed as an ecofriendly era, as mostly all electronics giants and car makers have taken some green initiatives to make their products better if not worse for the environment. With computers going green, there has to...

Software giants plan to go open-source for RIAs

Anupam — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:07:47 +0000

Marred with the new open-source movement in the software industry, software giants like Adobe, Sun and Microsoft are all planning to develop open-source software applications to rule the new age Internet. The reason behind this is that...

Firefox giving stiff competition to Microsoft

Anupam — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:16:54 +0000

Mozilla a not-for-profit organization released its open source web browser named Firefox three years ago. Since then the company has shown all giants of this trade that open source software can change tides towards them. According to an...

Neuf Cegetel plans to develop a low-cost computer to target French market

Vishal — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:59:41 +0000

This is a real good new for the people who cannot afford to buy a computer as French Internet service provider Neuf Cegetel is planning to develop a computer based on low cost model, aimed at people who are unable or unwilling to buy...

Open-Xchange partners with 1and1 Internet to provide open source software for SME

Ritu — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:11:16 +0000

The leading provider of open source collaboration software, Open-Xchange Inc. has partnered with partnership with 1&1 Internet, the world’s largest web hosting company to provide Open-Xchange’s Smart Collaboration technology based...

War on Proprietary Software: The open source heat list

Jayanta Bhattacharya — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 06:40:30 +0000

Well, I found a revealing post that in Open Source IT. It rightly says that that traditional software vendors are now under tremendous pressure brought upon by open source to open up and do away with the proprietary software if they have to...