Open Source Daily Journal

Making open source applications a credible option both at the enterprise and SMB levels will help avoid a major challenge to open source vendors. Development and adoption of open source is one of the most significant phenomena in the IT industry during the past decade. It has seen the development of various open source software solutions in a wide spectrum not only at the operating system but also at the middleware level.

With this initial success of open source software solutions, the next step for the industry is for vendors to take the initiative to make meaningful contributions. These contributions ultimately include infrastructure, staffing, financial and engineering support. This is the time for a leading group of enterprise open source vendors to step up. There is a need for them to stand together for mutual benefit. If everyone can do their share in furthering the cause of open source development then there is a good chance of keeping multibillion software giants at bay.

Source: opensource.sys-con.com

1. Free Redistribution

2. Source Code

3. Derived Works

4. Integrity of the Author’s Source Code

5. No Discrimination against Person or Groups

6. No Discriminations on Fields of Endeavour

7.  The Distribution of License

8.  It Must not be specific to a Product

9.   It Must not restrict other Software

10.  It Must be Technology Neutral

(Source: Opensource.org)

A. Compliance Levels

To support governments and other bodies in acknowledging and selecting
standards that conform to this Requirement, the OSI defines two levels
of compliance:

1. OSR Compatible

This indicates that the owner of the standard has self-certified
that their standard conforms with this Requirement, and all Compliance
Criteria. Anyone may ask the OSI to review an OSR Compatible standard;
if the OSI finds that the standard is incompatible, the owner must either
modify the standard or stop using the OSR Compatible mark.

2. OSR Conformant

This indicates the OSI has reviewed a standard, as submitted by the owner,
and certified that it fully conforms to the OSR. The OSI may charge a fee
to balance the costs of this certification.

3. Versioning

The OSI may, at its sole discretion, update the Criteria from time to
time to ensure they continue to fulfill the intent of the Requirement.
These updates will include an explicit version number, and the most
current version will always be available from

(Source:Opensource.org)

That is a very difficult question to ask for big businesses who normally have complex customized programs that allows them to function as a business. But the economic conditions have been forcing a lot of thought into the technology, considering both the advantages and disadvantages of the many successful open source projects that have already been out on the market. To ask that question would result in varying answers depending on who you ask, for large companies that use large programs and technology would not be so keen on adopting such a public technology. This does not however mean that they are not considering them for even some of the staunchest developers of closed systems have been trying out some of these technologies on a limited basis, proving the benefits, which is mainly cost are enticing enough for them to take notice. Continue Reading »

More and more businesses are considering the benefits in terms of cost in re-deploying their previously closed programs onto open systems that can be quite prone to hacking. Security has been on the agenda and is one of the major focus of developers and technology experts who have been promoting the new and improved open-system designs. Securing a very large distributed system that uses open technology is a very large task but developers are getting there, finally agreeing on how best to approach the security of the many projects being deployed or are already in place. Continue Reading »

The methods at which businesses and communities are trying to reach out and garner members vary depending on the technology they are promoting. Imagine FireFox that has been a long time in the making, a product of the Mozilla Foundation that came up with a web browser that was not only faster but much better than the long standing leader of the pack, Internet Explorer. They considered the changing web and how people are using the web, designed a framework, published the designs and asked for comments, suggestions and just about anything you might want to say to improve on the proposed browser. Get back down and incorporate the best suggestions in terms of improvement and release the browser into the wild that is the internet, viola, success in the making. Continue Reading »

Ubuntu has long been in the background of more prominent open-source projects that has been silently creeping, making a name for itself. It is after all based on Linux that itself is based from of course Unix, one of the oldest languages that has ruled the realm of mini to mainframe computers in the infancy of the internet. One of the best benefits of Linux and other derivatives or flavors as they are called is the ability to strip unwanted parts of the base operating system leaving only the needed ones intact. This allows an old Pentium computer to become and FTP server making for a cheap and deployable form of technology in an old package. Continue Reading »

The descendant of the hugely popular Mozilla Firefox 3.0 used to be called Firefox 3.1, but as the developers have progressed (and what a hard road that was), it was decided that Firefox 3.1 would be called Firefox 3.5 instead.

It’s no secret that the Firefox developers have had a hard time with Firefox 3.1. Now it looks likely that Firefox 3.1 will be released Firefox 3.5 to reflect the significance of the changes that have been made to the browser.

Shiretoko, as Firefox 3.1 is known, includes a number of new features that the developer team says makes it “feel like much more than a small, incremental improvement over Firefox 3″. Among these changes are TraceMonkey, tag and player support, improvements to user controls over data privacy, and significant changes to the web layout and rendering platform.

The original article lies here.

Firefox is hailed to be the best and most used browser to date which has taken over the much infamous Internet explorer from Microsoft. Why, the problems the software giant has with issues ranging from unfair commercial acts to plain ignorance of their user’s needs in terms of customization. The Fox is truly killing IE for millions now prefer to use it because they can totally customize their installation, with plug-ins that come from the users themselves who contribute to it’s improvement. Continue Reading »

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Content management system (CMS) is not new. Yet, not many business owners are aware of how the technology can help to bring their business to the next level.

A website owner greatly relies on their web designers to manage their website, which is time consuming and costly.
Here are some various CMS solutions that may be suitable for you:

1) Joomla – One of the most popular and commonly used CMS today, the software is released under GNU General public license, so anybody can use the software and make modifications to give for their own use.

2) Drupal – Drupal is a solid, high quality platform that is claimed to be user friendly and well liked by web developers. Only 1 installation is needed for multi sites.

3) CMS made simple – A much simpler key that is quick to learn and easy to use. This software is very good for small websites with few pages. Business owners that are new to the online world will find this software fitting.