Doing a Web 2.0 Startup with Open Source
Silicon Valley is chock-full of Web 2.0 startups today. And these startups are using open source big-time.
Silicon Valley is chock-full of Web 2.0 startups today. And these startups are using open source big-time.
Open Source Software (OSS) embodies a spectrum of evolutionary forces enabling market creation and change that can reward investment in sometimes surprising ways. Furthermore, Open Source's model of collaborative technology development can be applied to other technology and information fields such as biological sciences, manufacturing and knowledge creation.
In the short time that I've spent using Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger), I've really come to like it. The installation was painless, all my hardware was detected and configured correctly, package management was easy, and the clean-cut GNOME desktop is terrific.
The O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland this year witnessed more than 2000 hackers, geeks and entrepreneurs demonstrating the phenomenal growth of open source.
A review of the newly released Fedora Core 4 distribution.
As web applications take on roles traditionally served by pure desktop applications, creating interactive user interfaces with the ‘real-time’ feel of a customary desktop, is a challenge facing UI developers today. In this article, we will explore a solution to this problem using JavaScript and the XMLHttpRequest object.
As the market for software becomes bullish, a lot of attention is being showered on new open source development tools and frameworks. The star example today is the Eclipse Foundation’s namesake IDE.
Technetra participates at GNUnify 2005 in Pune, India.
Many venture capitalists (VCs) are starting to get excited because they see that OSS can form the basis for a profitable ROI.
OSCON is a “must attend” conference for all open source players who want to keep pace with the fast-moving world of open source technologies.
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