By Jared Newman OpenOffice used to be the best free alternative to Microsoft’s Office, but now it seems to be falling on hard times. Development on the open-source productivity suite is down …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: April 2015
Red Hat broadens programming language support
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•By Joab Jackson Potentially making work easier for system administrators, Red Hat has updated its development packages to support running multiple versions of the same programming language on its flagship enterprise operating system, …read more Source:: OpenSource
Enterprises still miss the real point of open source
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•By Matt Asay To its credit, enterprise IT management finally acknowledges open source. To its shame, it fails to foster a culture of contribution. This is particularly counterproductive, given that most developers already spend …read more Source:: OpenSource
No Linux, no Docker, no cloud OS? Think again
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•By Serdar Yegulalp CoreOS and Joyent’s SmartOS/Triton have worked to redefine, in radically different ways, what an OS needs to be to run applications at scale in the cloud. Now another candidate is set …read more Source:: OpenSource
Unitary Patent: Why is EU Pushing Itself into Irrelevance?
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•By editor@techworld.com (Glyn Moody) Although I haven’t written about the Unitary Patent for a while now, it hasn’t gone away – alas. Instead, it is still grinding through the ratification process that is necessary …read more Source:: Open Source
Mesos adds Kubernetes, containers to data center management system
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Mesosphere, creator of DCOS — a management system for data centers that leverages the Apache Mesos cluster management project — is following in the footsteps of many other …read more Source:: OpenSource
The Simplicity of Being Unlimited
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•By editor@techworld.com (Management Briefing) You climb into a cab. The driver flips the meter on. In heavy midday traffic, you watch the meter click off the pounds, even as you watch pedestrians on the …read more Source:: Open Source
6 steps to building a highly engaging IT service catalog
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•Service as a Service: IT service catalogs are services in themselves that business customers appreciate. …read more Source:: it-priorities
Google’s Mobile-Friendly Search Will Bury Your Mobile-Unfriendly Sites
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•By editor@techworld.com (Forrester Analysts) Google has done something important for your customers: it changed its ranking algorithm for searches on smartphones. If Google deems your web page mobile-unfriendly, then it will be devalued in …read more Source:: Open Source
Women in IT security: ‘It is a lopsided team in the field’
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•Women account for less than 11 percent of info security jobs, and still more than half of them are expected to leave IT altogether because of hostile work environments, according …read more Source:: it-priorities