100 Percent of Businesses To Use Opensource by 2010 Says Gartner

A survey conducted by research firm Gartner found out that more than 85 percent of firms have adopted open source software with the rest to follow suit by next year

TUE 18 NOV. 2008 |Featured in: News

Linux Costs USD 10.8 billion To Build Says Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation has updated the 2001 study of David Wheeler which looks at the approximate cost of developing a typical Linux distribution using a methodology based on the total number of software lines of code (SLOC) present in the distribution

THU 23 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Open Source Software Now Allowed In UK Schools Thanks To Becta Agreement

In a move that is sure to give a flip to the usage of open source software in UK schools, for the first time an open source company has made it to the list of accredited suppliers of Becta, the agency responsible for administering IT functions in schools

FRI 26 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Ubuntu Has Sights Set On April 2009 With Jaunty Jackalope

Ubuntu will introduce Jaunty Jackalope in April 2009 according to Mark Shuttleworth, the guy behind the Ubuntu Environment (and Canonical as well); JJ will be the following release after October's Intrepid Ibex and will be the first one to use a mythical creature's name

TUE 09 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News

GNU's 25th Anniversary Sees Free Software Coming of Age

WED 03 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Court Decision Means Open Source Licenses Are legally Enforceable

Open Source may to be synonymous with "free as in free beer" but it doesn't mean that one can do what ever they want with the code and go unpunished

FRI 15 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Microsoft woos Open Source market by funding Apache

Microsoft has decided to fund the Apache software foundation that is responsible for open source projects like PHP, Linux and MySQL

TUE 29 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

OpenMoko's Neo FreeRunner Is Ready to Run

Taiwanese device manufacturer, OpenMoko, is all set to hit the market with the Neo FreeRunner, a sleek touch screen handset

FRI 04 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Xandros Buys Linspire: Open Source Consolidation on its way

Recent reports suggest that Xandros, the Canadian desktop Linux vendor, is going to take over Linspire, the San Diego based Linux distributor famous for its legal tangle with Microsoft a few years ago.

WED 02 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Reddit Now Open Source

Popular social news voting website Reddit makes 95% of its code public

THU 19 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: News