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Quest Migration Assessment Tool (QMAT)
Download this assessment tool to compare Microsoft Exchange with Google Gmail and Sharing Tools. You'll see what they do best, and why you should pick one over the other.
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Oracle, SUSE, Red Hat drive 70% of LibreOffice development
Upon the release of LibreOffice 3.4.2, the Document Foundation announced that Oracle and SUSE each contributes roughly 25 percent of the latest commits, while Red Hat contributed another 20...
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LibreOffice motors right along with a new release
OpenOffice goes to Apache? So what! The Document Foundation has just released LibreOffice 3.4.0.
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Momentum matters
One of the most important things for a community is momentum. It's a make-or-break component to success. As Dale Dougherty points out in this O'Reilly Radar piece: It's like a team that...
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You get what you pay for: Paid contributors drive open source
What's the difference between a paid contributor to a FOSS project and a volunteer contributor? According to a paper by Evangelia Berdou, quite a bit. Berdou finds that paid developers take up key...
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SOA and cloud Achilles heel: too much success
Who will pay for services the rest of the enterprise uses?
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Wikipedia losing contributors: Fatal flaw, the community editors?
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales admits that the world's fifth most visited website is losing contributors, partly down to the complexity of the site. Others cite poor community engagement.
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Oracle, SUSE, Red Hat drive 70% of LibreOffice development
Upon the release of LibreOffice 3.4.2, the Document Foundation announced that Oracle and SUSE each contributes roughly 25 percent of the latest commits, while Red Hat contributed another 20...
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Top Five Linux Contributor: Microsoft
While you shouldn't expect Windows to be open-sourced in your life-time, Microsoft—yes, Microsoft—is the fifth largest code contributor to Linux 3.0.
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LibreOffice motors right along with a new release
OpenOffice goes to Apache? So what! The Document Foundation has just released LibreOffice 3.4.0.
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Microsoft Kinect 'core contributor' goes Google
Johnny Chung Lee, a Microsoft researcher who was a "core contributor" to Microsoft's Kinect gaming sensor, has jumped ship and gone to Google.
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Are contributor agreements subversive?
If you try to contribute to a corporate open source project, especially a "dual core" project, you will probably be given a "contributor agreement" to sign. The agreement gives all copyrights and...
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Users and contributors differ on Oracle open source
Users seem quite satisfied with the Oracle stewardship of open source Java and mySQL. Developers on the Open Solaris Governing Board, on the other hand, are in revolt.
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Momentum matters
One of the most important things for a community is momentum. It's a make-or-break component to success. As Dale Dougherty points out in this O'Reilly Radar piece: It's like a team that...
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You get what you pay for: Paid contributors drive open source
What's the difference between a paid contributor to a FOSS project and a volunteer contributor? According to a paper by Evangelia Berdou, quite a bit. Berdou finds that paid developers take up key...
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On forking and contributor agreements
Paula Rooney has written an excellent article on a dispute in the Open Office developer community that could possibly lead to a fork of the free office suite. A fork occurs when someone puts out...
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Debian delayed as contributors get grouchy
Fourth version of Linux distribution is late because of slowdown by key developers linked to a funding "experiment."
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Linux contributors face new rules
Open Source Development Labs, the group that employs Linus Torvalds, puts in place a system designed to better track and document changes to the Linux kernel.
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Report: MS fifth largest soft-money contributor
Microsoft is now the fifth-largest soft-money contributor to the national political parties, according to a study being released on Monday by Common Cause. The company has spent more than $15...
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