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  • WordPress guns for Web content management duties

    Long popular with bloggers, the open-source <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> blogging software is also starting to find a niche as a low-cost corporate CMS (content management system), at least for managing relatively simple Web sites.

    Written by Joab Jackson09 March 10 10:36
  • Stay away from OpenOffice.org until Oracle shows commitment, analyst says

    A European IT consulting firm is warning large enterprises and government entities not to deploy OpenOffice.org until Oracle Corp. shows proof that it will invest as heavily in the development of open-source productivity suite as project champion Sun Microsystems Inc. did.

    Written by Eric Lai21 Jan. 10 06:06
  • NICTA opens its software to the world

    Research organisation National ICT Australia (NICTA) has stepped up its support for open source software by launching the OpenNICTA portal where people can view and download software developed and licensed by the organisation.

    Written by Dahna McConnachie16 July 09 08:25
  • Open-source adoption faces extra obstacles in China

    The uphill battle that open-source programs face to steal ground from proprietary software comes with added pitfalls in China, where problems like software piracy take away strengths that open source has elsewhere.

    Written by Owen Fletcher16 July 09 04:38
  • Dell bundling open source applications for SMBs

    Dell is planning to offer small and medium businesses (SMBs) globally pre-configured bundles of hardware and open source software to run their businesses, according to an executive at the company.

    Written by John Ribeiro10 June 09 04:23
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