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12/02/2008
A Microsoft Veteran Embraces Open Source (New York Times)
Keith Curtis has just written a book about the future of software. That in itself isn’t unique. More unusual is that Mr. Curtis, an 11-year veteran of Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, believes deeply that open source is the future of software.
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12/02/2008
Open-source Developers Set out Software Road Map for 2020 (PC World via Yahoo! News)
A group of open-source software advocates set out a road map for the software industry through 2020 at the Open World Forum conference in Paris on Tuesday.
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12/02/2008
Test Center review: Open source data aces (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News)
If any software market deserved to be shaken up by open source alternatives, it's enterprise data integration. Commercial, enterprise-grade integration tools -- typically cobbled together from M&A and legacy patchworks -- are notoriously unwieldy and impose an arduous learning curve. Complexity frequently stalls deployments by months, and aftermarket consulting can add hundreds of thousands of ...
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12/02/2008
Open-source Developers Set out Software Road Map for 2020 (PC World)
Open-source advocates offer their vision of what the software world could be in 2020, and what must be done to get there.
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12/03/2008
Is Open Source Software a Race To Zero? (Slashdot)
gozunda writes "My company is an open source software vendor/developer. We maintain a popular open source project and keep ourselves afloat by producing commercial products derived from or extending the value of the core project. Over time we've seen our business model eroding as other open source projects produce free versions of the same extensions and utilities that are our bread and butter. ...
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12/03/2008
Multi Theft Auto - San Andreas Goes Open Source (Slashdot)
dan writes " Multi Theft Auto is a third-party modification for Rockstar's hit title Grand Theft Auto San Andreas — and it has become open-source after over four years of closed source development. As a (somewhat) regular player of MTA since the early days of GTAIII, this hit me by surprise, somewhat." (The news is on the project's front page, from which dan extracts more details, below.) ...
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12/02/2008
Open source developers set out software road map for 2020 (InfoWorld)
A group of open source software advocates set out a road map for the software industry through 2020 at the Open World Forum conference in Paris on Tuesday. The authors of the report, "2020 FLOSS Roadmap" (PDF) , made a number of predictions about the role of FLOSS (free, libre, and open source software) in 2020, and 80 recommendations for the industry. Their use of the French word ...
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12/02/2008
Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Steams Ahead (Linux Today)
OStatic: "This week brings some interesting new reports on open source adoption in enterprises, providing more evidence that the economic downturn is boosting many open source product categories."
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12/03/2008
Open-source data aces (Linux World Australia)
If any software market deserved to be shaken up by open source alternatives, it's enterprise data integration. Commercial, enterprise-grade integration tools -- typically cobbled together from M&A and legacy patchworks -- are notoriously unwieldy and impose an arduous learning curve.
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12/02/2008
Nokia closes its Symbian acquisition, seeding an open source foundation (BetaNews)
Mobile phone maker Nokia today took a big step toward establishing the open source Symbian Foundation, a group that will enhance the Symbian OS to compete with Android and other mobile OS.
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  • Air Todo - Offers a project management tool with zero administration.
  • Austin - C++ parser for which converts XML-based project files into Gantt charts.
  • Double Choco Latte - Issue tracking and project management. Part of Gnu Enterprise project.
  • Eberom - CRM and Project Management Tool developed with Java and running with MySQL and TomCat. [GPL]
  • FUTURe Project Planner - A time management application written in Java including todo lists, Gantt charts, diaries, pert charts. Currently in early project stages.
  • Gantt Project - Graphical Java program for editing Gantt charts. GPL
  • Gforge Project Management Tool - This part of the GForge collaborative development environment allows fine-grained control over tasklists, bugtracking, and gantt charts, with account management integrated into the overall product.
  • jToDoList - Provides a todolist application written in Java.
  • Projectory - Open source, platform-independent, web-enabled project management tool for software projects based on Perl and MySQL.
  • PyGantt - Reads a project description from a XML formatted file and outputs an HTML Gantt diagram.
  • ScrumWiki - Simple Wiki-based tool for applying Scrum project management techniques. Collaborative, open source, cross platform and with full version control.
  • Taskjuggler - A tool to schedule and track complex projects. The textual project description is compiled into schedules, status reports and GANTT charts.
  • ToutDoux - A project manager for GNOME part of the GNU project. French/English.
  • WR Time Tracker - PHP-based work time tracking system, under X11-style

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