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Free Open Source Software: Tenets

by Steven Leclair ... A Brief History of Open Source Software. Open Source Legal In an article on the history of open source software, Wikipedia states ... http://foss.technologyevaluation.com/foss-info/free-open-source-software-tenets.html - 37k - 2009-08-31 Summary: The 10 Open Source Tenets, Dealing with Open Source Legal Issues, Obama Going Open Source, Open Source Software History, Free Software Movement (FSM)

Analysis of Sendmail, Inc.'s Largest Open Source Release in Twenty ...

by P. Hayes ... Mail platform for e-communications, applications and services, announced Open Source sendmail 8.10, the largest feature release in the 20 year history of the ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/GroupwareMessaging/2000/03/news_analysis/NA_GW_MPH_03_01_00_1.asp - 6k - 2000-03-01 Summary: sendmail 8.10 now includes SMTP authentication and support for the lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) and multiple queues.

Demand at the Fount of Open Source: A Primer Based in Demand ...

by Josh Chalifour ... It may simply be that DB2 has a longer commercial history (DB2 has been around for ... of database systems but keep in mind that these are open source systems so ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/FreeOpenSource/2005/12/research_notes/TU_FS_JC_12_30_05_1.asp - 21k - 2005-12-30 Summary: As we witness the inexorable increase in demand for Free and open source software (FOSS), many organizations have yet to glean the FOSS fundamentals. This series highlights fundamentals for the enterprise as manifested in global customer demand trends.

Interview with Louis Suárez-Potts of OpenOffice.org and CollabNet

by Josh Chalifour ... With this evolution, the history of open source becomes a little bit more interesting, because there isn'ta clear antecedent where companies have said, "let's ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/FreeOpenSource/2005/07/research_notes/RN_FS_JC_07_28_05_1.asp - 42k - 2005-07-28 Summary: Louis Suárez-Potts speaks about the political and social architecture of open source communities as well as practices for successful oversight of a project. He covers specific examples from his role as community development manager for the OpenOffice.org project.

A Spoonful of SugarCRMCase Study and Review of an Open Source CRM ...

by Josh Chalifour ... solution has fewer peaks and valleys because it has a longer history and thus the ... by focusing on a few core areas, in particular, as an open source product it ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/FreeOpenSource/2004/11/research_notes/PN_FS_JC_11_30_04_1.asp - 26k - 2004-11-30 Summary: SugarCRM is a rapidly growing open source CRM company with solutions that appeal to a community of enthusiastic users. This study, based on a client who selected the Sugar Sales Professional CRM solution, compares product functionality to the competition and highlights some of SugarCRM's open source busi

The Prescription to Buying an EMR Solution to Improve Patient Care ...

... is a dossier about the patient, and details such as medical history, prescription changes ... I work on an open source EMR and patient management application called ... blog.technologyevaluation.com/.../ - 42k - 2008-11-04

The Future of Secure Remote Password (SRP)

by Brenda Coulson ... History of SRP. ... Cryptix, a provider of open-source cryptographic toolkits, offers an open source Java implementation of SRP SASL. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Security/2003/03/research_notes/MI_ST_XBC_03_03_03_1.asp - 20k - 2003-03-03 Summary: The Secure Remote Password (SRP) holds great promise as a way to strongly authenticate a user without the usual risks of dictionary attack(s) faced by other password-based authentication schemes. Yet the industry de-facto standard remains the password-based authentication scheme. This article explores th

Vendor Viability (Size) vs. Customer Intimacy » The TEC Blog

... ERP vendor is to have an open source strategy ... similar situation - they would have the source code to ... were JD Edwards customers - long operating history, $800MM ... blog.technologyevaluation.com/blog/2007/11/07/vendor-viability-size-vs-customer-intimacy/ - 51k - 2007-11-07

Composing Collaborative Financial Applications

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... US and Canada since 1988, CODA Financials has a rich history of helping ... OpenVMS (Virtual Memory System), IBM iSeries (AS/400), UNIX, open source, client/server ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2005/11/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_11_14_05_1.asp - 24k - 2005-11-14 Summary: With its short term ownership under Baan all but forgotten, CODA has been doing well, owing to its astute offerings tailored to the preferences of each regional market, coupled with some recent appetizing acquisitions.

Interview with Karl Fogel of Subversion and CollabNet

by Josh Chalifour ... because it provides the hosting infrastructure and it has a well-regarded history. ... solely to support that product (which is not itself open source so it's not ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/FreeOpenSource/2005/07/research_notes/RN_FS_JC_07_27_05_1.asp - 33k - 2005-07-27 Summary: Karl Fogel is a founding developer of the Subversion project and is employed by CollabNet. In the following interview, Karl covers key social aspects of coordinating developers as well as the difficulties and advantages of managing an open source, distributed development project.