The growing fallout over the Novell-Microsoft deal has prompted Novell to roll out its big guns for the first face-to-face debate on the merits of the deal and the implications for the free software community. Novell South Africa country manager Stafford Masie will be fielding questions from the free software community at the Cape IT [...]
Recent research by Gartner into the global telecoms industry has shown the importance of emerging markets both as huge growth areas and also as innovation engines for the industry. The report has warned telecoms companies to ignore these markets at their own risk. Presently, emerging markets account for more than half of the world’s total [...]
Breaking Barriers: The Potential of Free and Open Source Software for Sustainable Human Development A Compilation of Case Studies from Across the World Author: Nah Soo Hoe, 2006, 103 pages ISBN: 81-312-0631-9 Download from: http://www.apdip.net/news/breakingbarriers This is not a full review. I haven’t had the time to do much more than read a couple of [...]
We don’t usually cover news about Microsoft on Tectonic but the release of the company’s latest operating system, Vista, is an important moment in the evolution of software. For a start it is the first OS release from the company in five years. It is also the operating system that Microsoft is hoping will be [...]
Although there are many multimedia applications available in the free and open source world there are not a lot of dedicated multimedia Linux distributions available. Until now, that is. 64 Studio is a distribution of native free software for digital content creation on AMD and Intel 64-bit chips. And version 1.0 was released yesterday. 64 [...]
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