Open source owes its
success to a large group
of people who have a
shared set of values
about which they feel
strongly. Mainstream
society probably lacks
any real understanding of
the things that matter to
them in the world of open ...
Motorola has released the
source code of Precise
Process Accounting (PPA)
for the Linux Kernel to
the Open Source community
on April 23, 2007, under
the GNU General Public
License (GPL) version 2.
The current release
supports the Li...
For a small business,
flexibility and cost are
key factors to bear in
mind when considering a
network threat management
solution. Given the cost
and inflexibility
associated with
proprietary vendors, open
source solutions may seem
...
The Eclipse development
environment has become
the de facto industry
standard environment in
which to host embedded
development tools. Many
of the traditional
embedded tools vendors
who used to sell their
own proprietary
developme...
I recently wrapped up an
18-month stint on the
business subcomittee of
the Wireless Washtenaw
Initiaitive, a project to
bring wireless broadband
to the citizens of
Washtenaw County,
Michigan. It's part of a
growing movement by local...
This article discusses
Spring's transaction
management facilities and
the common use cases in
Spring where an external
transaction manager is
required. A real-world
application is used to
illustrate the
transactional aspects and
f...
A directory service is an
application(s) that
stores, retrieves, and
modifies information
about network resources
such as network users.
The actual data is stored
in a database; a database
service is an abstract
layer on top of the ...
There's been a lot of
pubic discussion recently
about what it means to be
open. While the OSI has
published the Open Source
Definition, which lists
10 attributes of what it
means to be 'open
source,' commercial
entities have emerged...
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