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# For common problems use Opensource # For rare problems use Buy # For unique problems use Build # And in all cases make sure you maximise reuse

This sounds funny, but some open source projects forget that they need users.

Submitting patches to Open Source code doesn't come naturally to everyone.

La FSF vient de publier un premier brouillon pour discussion d'une toute nouvelle licence : la GNU Affero General Public License (GNU AGPL). Cette licence est adaptée au contexte des applications web et des logiciels utilisés sur le réseau en général. Elle marque un tournant important pour la FSF, son domaine ne se réduit plus au logiciel installé traditionnel, mais s'étend à la sphère des services web.

The Navica Open Source Maturity Model (OSMM) was developed to help IT procurement managers to better compare and assess Open Source Software (OSS).

eZ Systems has displayed its strong commitment to Open Source by releasing the eZ Publish Extension for Oracle® Database under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This extension was previously only available under a proprietary license and was sold from $899 to $2999. It is now freely available.

The high availability features include support for semi-synchronous replication, mirroring the binlog from a master to a slave, quickly promoting a slave to a master during failover, and keeping InnoDB and replication state on a slave consistent during crash recovery. The manageability features include new SQL statements for monitoring resource usage by table and account. This includes the ability to count the number of rows fetched or changed per account or per table. It also includes the number of seconds of database time an account uses to execute SQL commands.

Elgg is an open source social networking platform based around choice, flexibility and openness: a system that firmly places individuals at the centre of their activities.

Dans le cadre de mes études, j'ai rédigé un mémoire intitulé « Le logiciel libre : quelle opportunité pour les PME ? » Il aborde le thème des logiciels libres d'un point de vue professionnel et plus précisément des petites et moyennes entreprises. Après une mise en situation retraçant l'évolution passée du logiciel, le sujet se concentre sur les applications open source : leurs défauts et les opportunités qu'ils offrent aux PME. Une série de témoignages d'administrations publiques et d'entreprises de tailles variées complète ce dossier.

Andrew Bennetts will describe two of the technical tools Launchpad developers use to solve these problems: the distributed version control system Bazaar and the Patch Queue Manager which controls code merges.

Mapping the open source world by collecting objective information on open source projects.

Voilà une surprise de taille ! La société Qualcomm vient d'annoncer qu'elle arrêtait les développements de leur client de courriel Eudora. La société américaine va désormais collaborer avec la fondation Mozilla et baser les futures versions d'Eudora sur Thunderbird.

Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation is an application designed to help a network or system administrator keep track of the computer configuration and software installed on the network.

I veut payer cher des produits dont il n’a pas vraiment besoin. I veut que des consultants viennent régulièrement lui fouetter le portefeuille et lui intégrer le SI.

Business Readiness Rating™ (BRR) is being proposed as a new standard model for rating open source software.

The Shibboleth software implements the OASIS SAML v1.1 specification, providing a federated Single-SignOn and attribute exchange framework.

What questions should IT organizations ask when evaluating the viability of an OSS vendor?

Kudos to Yahoo!, who today released two pieces of goodness into the commons. The first is their UI library, and the second is their Design Patterns Library.

GREAT app. Oh and by the way - it's it's free and open source - and it runs on Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux.

Plugin pour Microsoft Office permettant de générer des documents au format OpenOffice (SXW/OpenDocument)