Open Source for Small Business

OpenMeetings recently released version 1.8 of its Web-Conferencing Platform. There are two new features: an activity window that shows all user activity in a room and an advanced math and clipart tool, added to have almost 2000 symbols available on the whiteboard. Together with the ability to resize, drag and rotate those icons it should be a useful new feature especially for teachers. Additionally a lot of small UI bugfixes and improvements have been implemented. OpenMeetings is a free browser-based software that allows you to set up instantly a conference in the Web. You can use your microphone or webcam, share documents on a white board, share your screen or record meetings. It is available as hosted service or you download and install a package on your server with no limitations in usage or users. Main features are: - Audio/Video Conferencing - Desktop Sharing an... (more)

Open Source Compliance: Getting Started Guide

This article discusses Open Source compliance and the challenges faced when establishing a compliance program, provides an overview of best practices, and offers recommendations on how to deal with compliance inquiries. Introduction Traditionally, platforms and software stacks were built using proprietary software and consisted of various software building blocks that came from different companies with negotiated licensing terms. The business environment was predictable and potential risks were mitigated through license and contract negotiations with the software vendors. In time,... (more)

Mozilla Might Be Ready to Step Out of Google’s Shadow

Firefox Session at Cloud Expo Mozilla has been going toe to toe with Microsoft on the browser front standing solidly behind the European Union‘s stance against the software giant over monopoly abuse for tying the Internet Explorer browser to the Windows operating system. Mozilla, is also rapidly digging a hole in Internet Explorer‘s dominating market share. So it just does not make any sense that Mozilla would now promote Microsoft for anything. Or does it? It has been widely reported today that Mozilla's Director of Community Development Asa Dotzler stated in his personal blog... (more)

SpringSource Sends dm Server to Eclipse

After two years of full-time development, SpringSource has contributed its open source OSGi-style dm Server project to Eclipse.org expecting the move to eventually simplify the widgetry generally used for very complex enterprise applications and broaden its base of users. SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer figures that if mainstream developers – who just want to build an enterprise application as quickly as possible, and with as little hassle as possible – can be enticed into the fold then enterprise OSGi can become the de facto approach as OSGi already has for writing infrastructur... (more)

Microsoft Passes Geeknet Open Source Test with Flying Colors

Open Source on Ulitzer Geeknet network, which includes SourceForge, Slashdot, ThinkGeek, Ohloh, and Freshmeat, has conducted a study initiated by Microsoft and found that at the end of 2009, over 82% of open source software was compatible with Windows Operating System. The results are a significant improvement from 2005 when only 72% of Open source software worked on Microsoft’s proprietary OS . In fact 23 out of the top 25 all-time-most downloaded projects on SourceForge also ran on Windows and 14 of them work exclusively on Windows. It’s not surprising that Microsoft is pattin... (more)