Hundreds of open source packages, including the Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Debian distributions of Linux, are susceptible to attacks that circumvent the most widely used technology to prevent eavesdropping on the Internet, thanks to an extremely critical vulnerability in a widely used cryptographic code library. Source: Tech
Day: March 4, 2014
Could Open Source Be An Engine For The Internet Of Things?
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•The International Telecommunication Union recently organized an international workshop centered on Internet of Things standards at its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Source: Tech
Red Hat Launches a Comprehensive Open Source BPM Suite
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•Red Hat, Inc., on Tuesday announced a comprehensive open source business process management suite, Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6, which includes the next version of its business rules platform, JBoss BRMS 6. With JBoss BPM Suite 6, Red Hat brings a combination of business process management (BPM), business rules management (BRM) and complex event…
The Commercial Case for Open Source Software
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•The history of open source has already been written and rewritten a couple of times, so there’s no need to go back to Genesis chapter one and revisit Linus Torvalds’ “just a hobby, won’t be big” comments too often. But open source became more than the sum of its parts and the hobbyists grew successful…
Failure to Automate Licensing & Entitlement Management is Missed Opportunity for Software Vendors, According to New Flexera Software/IDC Report
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•Report reveals ISV’s failure to implement licensing & entitlement management technology reduces virtualisation revenues, go-to-market effectiveness, and quote to cash efficiencyMaidenhead, UK – March 4, 2014 – Despite the massive growth and evolution of the enterprise software industry, independent software vendors (ISVs) have largely failed to implement automated software licensing and entitlement management systems across…