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What is open source?

Date: July 2006 Category: Open Source Solutions
Open source software offers great benefits to the small business including enhanced ICT capabilities at lower software costs. But what exactly is it? More

Ruby on Rails

Date: June 2006 Category: Open Source Solutions
Ruby on Rails is rapidly becoming a mainstream technology. It has accelerated from nothing to the hottest thing in web development in a year... More

Evaluating Open Source Solutions

Date: April 2006 Category: Open Source Solutions
Open Source software can be hard to evaluate - you don't get brochures, there aren't salesmen to give you demos, and there are no glossy adverts to impress... More

Finding Open Source Software

Date: April 2006 Category: Open Source Solutions
Open-source software lives on the internet, and the main way to find anything on the internet is to Google. However there are also some specialist open-source directories... More

Firefox and the Impact Curve

Date: April 2006 Category: Open Source Solutions
There is little doubt that one of the most publicised Open Source projects doing the rounds at the moment is Mozilla Firefox... More

Open Source Taking Over Europe

Date: April 2006 Category: Open Source Solutions
Nearly half of European local government bodies are using open source software while nearly a third don't know that they are using open source at all... More

What is Open Source...?

Date: April 2006 Category: Open Source Solutions
Answering the question What is open source? used to be a lot simpler than it is today. Open source began as, and for the most part still is, software created by a community of people who are dedicated to working together... More

Empowering Linux Users to Reclaim their Email

Date: April 2006 Category: Open Source Solutions
The Linux community - nearly 29 million platform users - has been plagued for years by spam which, according to industry statistics, is dramatically on the rise... More