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Software-licensing costs predicted to fall

November 19, 2007 Gartner says vendors' profit margins will drop as SaaS, open source, and outsourcing give buyers more bargaining power. TAGS: BPO, software-as-a-service, Gartner Inc., buyer, profit margin, vendor, business process, open source, software company, information technology

Open-source PCs take a passage to India

November 16, 2005 Desktops pre-installed with OpenOffice.org, Firefox and other open-source applications will be sold in the country. TAGS: OpenOffice.org, open source, vendor, India, Firefox, open-source software, Linux, Microsoft Corp., CD, PC, Microsoft Windows

Is open source getting to Microsoft?

September 15, 2006 Pledge not to sue over Web services patents reflects the spread of the collaborative development model--as far as Microsoft, even. TAGS: Web service, open source, patent, intellectual property, standards, open-source community, vendor, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software company, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Windows

Start-ups team to push open-source boundaries

July 21, 2006 A fledging consortium of open-source management companies looks to shake up the industry as incumbent vendors try to get on board. TAGS: systems management, enterprise systems management, consortium, open source, vendor, IBM Corp., software company, operating system, server

Open source meets business intelligence

April 24, 2006 Looking to crack into the business intelligence field, open-source challengers JasperSoft and Pentaho expand their product suites. TAGS: business intelligence, JasperSoft, open source, vendor, IBM Corp., server, database

Open source grows beyond its roots

August 14, 2006 Zimbra shows off wiki as the start-up and its cohorts push into new areas and compete on features, not just price. TAGS: SugarCRM, open source, enterprise software company, open-source company, LinuxWorld, Wiki, enterprise software, vendor, desktop software, open-source software, software company, start-up, collaboration, e-mail address, document, spreadsheet

Big-ticket software gets a trim

April 14, 2005 Open-source alternatives and bundling by larger vendors are putting price pressure on back-end middleware providers. TAGS: application server, battleground, BEA Systems Inc., middleware, server software, vendor, Gartner Inc., open source, server, database

Microsoft starts a group for software harmony

November 14, 2006 Company creates interoperability council dedicated to making existing products work better together. TAGS: council, interoperability, vendor, Microsoft Corp., open source

Uncovering the secret sauce

November 16, 2006 perspective Palamida's Mark Tolliver asks whether it's time software companies should openly disclose their "ingredients." TAGS: nutrition, food, ingredient, intellectual property, vendor, open-source community, open source, software company, open-source software, component

Researchers envision the Linux of routing

April 19, 2004 Scientists at Berkeley are close to releasing an open-source software code that could do for routing what Linux did for operating systems. TAGS: Avici Systems, router, packet, Cisco Systems Inc., Juniper Networks Inc., open source, Linux, vendor, researcher, open-source software, process, operating system, PC

'Free' is the new 'cheap' for software tools

January 31, 2006 The release of IBM's free DB2 database points to the downward price pressure from open-source programmers' tools. TAGS: IBM DB2, James Gosling, free version, BEA Systems Inc., software developer, database server, open source, Oracle Corp., programming tool, IBM Corp., database, vendor, software company, Microsoft Corp., server

Linux standard gains big-name backers

September 13, 2004 If Linux Standard Base 2.0 becomes the de facto guide for companies working on open source, Microsoft may face more competition. TAGS: Linux, open source, guideline, AMD, vendor, open-source software, standard, software company, Unix, operating system, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

SugarCRM to launch on-demand service

November 4, 2004 With its open-source model, the company has the potential to shake up the industry, one analyst says. TAGS: SugarCRM, on-demand, Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Salesforce.com Inc., open source, vendor, functionality, server

Patent problems pester penguin

August 5, 2004 Free Software Foundation counsel Daniel Ravicher says a broken patent system is in urgent need of repair. TAGS: indemnification, denial, open-source software, patent, study, Linux kernel, Linux, sky, defense, vendor, open source
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