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• OrecX debuts open source VoIP recording technology 2 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  CHICAGO, IL (July 24, 2008) – OrecX LLC, a leading provider of open source voice recording applications, today announced the formal debut of its award-winning Oreka Total Recording (TR) software solution for customer service management professionals, leveraging the power of open source in bolstering efficient call-center operation.
• Open Enterprise Interview: Doug Moran, vice president of community, Pentaho 2 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Here Doug Moran, one of Pentaho's founders, offers a fascinating description of how the company was created in part by bringing on board the chief architects of several other open source projects, offers not one but two explanations of the Pentaho name, says more on the recent adoption of the GNU GPLv2 for its BI platform, and explains why -- of course -- he thinks Pentaho's solutions are the best.
• Cynapse releases cyn.in v2, the open source Collaborative Knowledge Management software 2 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  cyn.in, the industry leading SaaS offering for enterprise collaboration and knowledge management, is now available as an 'out of the box' software appliance that can be set up behind your firewall. cyn.in v2 is now open source, and the full-featured Community Edition software appliance is available for free download.
• Avoiding lock-in in the Cloud 3 months, 1 week ago
  
  Cloud computing has many benefits, but the risk of being locked-in to a single vendors' platform is very real.
• Will the biggest clouds stay open source? 10 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  "The biggest and best IT system suppliers are gearing up for what they call “cloud” computing. IBM floated its offering today. It runs Linux."
• RFID a 'technical blunder', report says 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  The next bubble ready to burst?

  Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a technology bubble ready to burst according to a new report by Dublin-based firm Heavey RF.…

• Digium Takes Asterisk Upstream Sans GPL 3 1 year, 3 months ago
  
  "Internetnews.com has learned that Digium, the commercial vendor behind the open source Asterisk VoIP PBX effort, has a new but unannounced appliance in the works..."
• Could open source BI close out incumbents? 1 year, 3 months ago
  
  A threat to traditional markets?

  JasperSoft has just released version 2.0 of its software, which makes this a good time not just to consider JasperSoft's latest capabilities, but also open-source business intelligence (BI) more generally.

• The houses that RISC OS built 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  New homes designed and produced using RISC OS kit.

  RISC OS is said to be used in set top boxes scattered across the world, and a mobile phone developer reportedly bought up a load of RISC OS 5 kit. But some applications of ROS are much closer to home. Martin Hansen reports on the growing use of RISC OS in the timber frame housing industry.

• Samba 3 preview release behaves more like Windows 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Jane Walker writes "After a spate of field testing, a new Samba 3 preview release hits the streets with enhancements to winbind and offline logon support."
• Importing Outlook Express Emails Into Thunderbird And Evolution 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  This tutorial shows how you can import Outlook Express emails, contacts, and account settings into Mozilla Thunderbird and Evolution. This is quite useful if you want to switch from Windows to Linux but don't want to lose your mails and address book.
• Reasons Why Google Will Fail With Enterprise Apps 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  Anonymous Reader writes "I recently discovered that Google is taking a leap into the enterprise world with their web based applications. And to Google fans, I can see where this may be seen as spectacular news. But to the skeptics, such as myself, I believe it’s going to prove difficult at best. Why the harsh outlook? Because this has been part of the Microsoft domain for so long that I don't believe that IT managers are ready to make the leap of faith that Google needs to kick start things with. Then again, Google could be closer than I initially thought..."
• Now shipping: Red Hat-JBoss application stack 2 years ago
  
  Jane Walker writes "Existing Red Hat customers can now reap the benefits of having JBoss middleware in their application stack. But IT managers who have already deployed custom open source apps will need to weigh JBoss’ pros and cons before making a change."
• Scalix slashes wholesaler's collaboration costs 2 years, 3 months ago
  
  Anonymous Reader writes "This article from Tectonic tells of a company's switch from MS Exchange to Scalix for messaging and collaboration. It says Scalix's "transparent support for Outlook as well as its buzz-worthy AJAX-based webmail feature has raised hopes that the open source solution can oust the Outlook/MS Exchange hegemony in the corporate market - one of hte last barriers for open source in the business world.""
• Enterprise Software is Not a Refrigerator 2 years, 7 months ago
  
  Si Chen writes "Most companies buy ERP/CRM software the way people buy refrigerators. But while you may never need to make toast or watch TV with your refrigerator, you may be running a completely different business with your ERP/CRM software one day. This short feature asks what is really important in enterprise software, how to assess it, and when open source may be a better answer."
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