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Best of open source in software development 11 September, 2007 08:18:35
InfoWorld editors and reviewers award the Best Open Source Software for the enterprise, here's what they say about software developementThe wealth of open source software development goodies is heaven for the developer community, but it's hell on an awards committee. Considering IDEs, debuggers, defect trackers, code coverage tools, unit testers, load testers, and so on, we could have come up with more awards here than the rest of the Bossies combined. Then there were paths that could only lead to trouble. Could we really choose a best language? Or a best development platform? Could we pick Python over Perl, or Rails over Mono? - +
Zenoss: New dog masters old monitoring tricks 30 November, 2007 12:50:00
Zenoss Core 2.1 impresses with object-based approach, strong device discovery, native Windows monitoring, and open source extensibilitySince the dawn of the business network, there has been a need to ensure that the network services provided to the enterprise are alive and responsive. Traditionally, in midsized businesses, this role has been filled by complex, closed source, and fantastically expensive solutions from manufacturers such as BMC, CA, HP, and IBM. And while these extravagant expenses make no customer happy, many users of these packages also complain of their complexity. Enough administrators have spent enough time wrangling with their monitoring systems to make a lot of smart people imagine that there must be a better way. - +
Best of open source applications 11 September, 2007 10:00:42
Top offerings in CRM, ERP, portals, content management, and collaboration platformsA hunger for lighter-weight and lower-cost sales and CRM applications has brought great success to SaaS vendors such as Salesforce.com, and also lifted the fortunes of open source offerings in the space. Open source ERP has had a harder time breaking out, but here too there are several impressive offerings to choose from. And if you're looking to open source for an enterprise portal, CMS, or Microsoft Exchange substitute, you will not be disappointed. - +
Networking's greatest debates in Software 29 October, 2007 07:42:58
Classic debates include Open source vs. commercial software, Software-as-a-service vs. packaged applications,and Novell NetWare vs. Microsoft networkingA Look at the all time greatest controversies in the history of the networking industry. - +
ARN's A-Z guide to networking 19 December, 2007 14:50:54
As business needs change, so do the requirements for the business backbone. ARN looks at networking trends and technologies and reports on predictions for 2008 and beyond.
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Gaia Ajax Widgets, an alternative AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) library for developing ASP.Net and Mono applications, has been upgraded with re-factoring to make it easier to view and modify code.
The Q3 release of Gaia Ajax Widgets was made available this week by developer Frost Innovation. Other improvements to the open source product include enhancements in documentation, samples, and widgets.
"The product is [intended] to, first of all, make it very much easier to develop rich Internet applications or Web 2.0 applications or whatever they're called this week," said Thomas Hansen, CTO of Frost Innovation in Norway.
Built to mimic ASP.Net, Gaia is focused on abstracting away JavaScript, similar to Google Web Toolkit, but it works with Mono and not Java, Hansen said. Mono is an open source version of the .Net development platform. Developers can use either Mono or .Net technologies.
Developers using Gaia Ajax Widgets do not have to write JavaScript with a couple of exceptions, such as when they are writing their own widgets. Business logic can be implemented in .Net languages such as VB.Net.
Users can get Gaia Ajax Widgets either via the GNU General Public License version 2 for free software, or via a Gaia Commercial License. With the GNU license, users must distribute the code for their applications. If commercial software vendors want to build an application and not release the source code, the product then costs Euro 295 (AU$499) for a single developer license.
The technology can be downloaded from the Gaia Web site.
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ARN Panel Sessions: Day 3The last of our panel sessions recorded live at CeBIT 2008. Today, the topic is storage. Data is growing at an enormous rate, so what does the future hold?
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NAB works with Avanade® to leverage Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 for its branch offices
In 2007, Avanade helped the National Australia Bank use Windows Server 2008 to simplify deployment, maximise the efficiency of their low-bandwidth wide area network and consolidate its IT infrastructure.
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