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Fraunhofer IAO releases a report entitled "Open Source Software: Potential for Use and Economic Efficiency"

  • http://www.e-business.iao.fraunhofer.de/publikationen.html; By Thomas Renner, Michael Vetter, Sascha Rex, Holger Kett (Posted by jwbr on Feb 13, 2006 7:46 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
The Competence Centers Electronic Business and Business Integration of the Fraunhofer IAO releases a report entitled "Open Source Software: Potential for Use and Economic Efficiency," a very comprehensive, objective, and systematic review of Open Source Software and its potential for use in business.

Unknown jewels of Unix: NoSQL

  • Lateral Opinion; By Roberto Alsina (Posted by jwbr on Dec 18, 2005 11:58 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The NoSQL database, though not new, is worth taking a look at to refresh the mind about the power of some of the core fundamentals of Unix-like systems.

Cool: Duden Now Corrects in OOo Writer

An authority on German orthography and grammar now supports OpenOffice.org Writer on Linux. The German publishing house Duden is recognized as one of the authorities on German orthography and grammar. With this release of their "Duden OpenOffice.org Suite," users of OpenOffice.org Writer on both Linux and Windows have access to the "Duden Linguistic Engine." This is a major step for Linux and Open Office gaining in legitimacy among desktop users in German-speaking countries. The article appears in German as "Cool: Duden korrigiert jetzt auch im OOo Writer."

Original Article in German

[Ed: The site is in German translated by Google. Enjoy! - dcparris]