Current Open-Source-Software News and Article Results

Gartner: 85 percent of companies using open source - ZDNet
Eighty-five percent of companies are already using open-source software, with most of the remaining 15 percent expecting to do so within the next year, according to analysts at Gartner. However, only 31 percent of companies surveyed by the analyst ...

Norway encourages use of open source software - WTOP Radio
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Norway pledged funds Monday to stimulate public sector use of the free open source software OpenOffice to reduce its dependency on Microsoft Corp. and other major software producers. Minister of Government Administration and ...

Gartner: open source software 'pervasive' - The Register
It is a wise manager that does not make decisions based on the survey data put together by the major IT market researchers. But sometimes a skinny bit of survey data is all you have to start with, and that data is better than no data at all ...

Firms open to huge open source liabilities - Computer Weekly
The use of open source software (OSS) is now pervasive with 85% of firms using it, and the other 15% expecting to do so in the next 12 months, says analyst Gartner. A Gartner survey of 274 companies around the world measured high OSS usage, but found ...

OpenLiberty.org Releases First Open Source Identity Governance ... - Yahoo Finance
NEW YORK and LONDON, November 19 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenLiberty.org, the global open source community working to provide developers with resources and support for building interoperable identity-enabled services for enterprises and people, today ...

Gartner: 85 percent of companies using open source - ZDNet
Eighty-five percent of companies are already using open-source software, with most of the remaining 15 percent expecting to do so within the next year, according to analysts at Gartner. However, only 31 percent of companies surveyed by the analyst ...

Open Source Software Institute Announces Release of Updated OpenSSL ... - Newswiretoday.com
NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Hattiesburg, MS, United States, 11/19/2008 - The Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) announced today the securing of a new FIPS 140-2 validation for the OpenSSL FIPS Object Module 1.2. The official Federal Information ...

Survey says 85% of companies using Open Source software And remainder ... - Pocket-Link.co.uk
According to the analysts at Gartner, a whooping 85% of some of the world's top companies are using Open Source software. And the remainder are planning on moving across within the next year. The findings come after a survey of 274 end-user ...

Art in your shadow - BBC News
“We have computer vision interface, which is basically a way for the computer to observe who is going by, it’s typically used in robotics", said Mr Lozano-Hemmer. Driving the project is open source software, used by project engineer Conroy Badger ...

Unicon Adds Over Twenty New Open Source Projects for CAS, Sakai ... - Earthtimes
PHOENIX - (Business Wire) Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source software consulting services for the education market, today announced that it has completed over twenty new open source services projects in the third quarter of 2008 for ...