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Collaboration and interoperability are shaking up enterprise content management from the outside, but forces are also emerging from within that have the potential to reshape the market. Two companies in particular, Alfresco and SpringCM, challenge the dominant deployment model of proprietary, premises-based software. Alfresco and SpringCM attack the two major weaknesses of ECM vendors: cost and time. It's not unusual for a company to drop $1 million on ECM software and services, and Gartner says it can take six to 18 months to deploy.

Before you finish your holiday shopping, consider the following option: If you’re in the market for a low-end PC, put aside about $300 for the ZaReason Breeze, a small desktop computer that runs Ubuntu Linux. Based on our testing, WorksWithU sees some clear market segments where the Breeze is an ideal option for today’s consumers and small businesses. Here's the scoop.

Many sceptics were convinced that as free software spread out beyond hackers into the general computing sector the rigorous GNU GPL licence would gradually be replaced by more accommodating – meaning weaker – forms, since it was “obvious” that its unbending rules were too strict for widespread use. In fact, the GPL has grown in importance, until today it is probably fair to say that it underpins most of the free software world, including enterprise applications. This makes any violation of its terms particularly worrying, because if left unchallenged, it threatens to undermine the entire ecosystem.

I never tell anyone that I'm a writer, because then I get bombarded with requests to edit their manuscripts and find them paying gigs and all kinds of things I would rather not do. Or they bore me with how they have all these ideas that they are really going to write someday, but for now they prefer to bore me with them. For those of you who are serious and not afraid to work hard, it is possible to get paid to write computer howtos. So as long as you promise to not come to my house and pester me, I will share some tips with you.

The Eclipse Plug-in for Generating and Executing Test Cases for Database Objects enables users to automatically generate JUnit or SQLUnit test cases for database objects. By using defined code templates and parameter templates, the repetitive effort of handling the objects is significantly reduced.

A two-part screencast. The first part has some slides at the beginning of it that explains the process of how to build a LiveDVD remix of Fedora 10 and then includes a live demo of the build process. The second video shows booting the LiveDVD media that was built in part one and some of the features present in the remix.

LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer weekend Linux system administration bootcamp on December 20th - 21st, 2008 in South Bay (CA). This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas.

UK operator O2 has just launched its latest attempt to create a mobile developer's community, ticking all the Web 2.0 boxes - just as the rest of the industry seems to be moving on. Like the dad arriving late to the party, O2 is keen to show off their Web 2.0 credentials: Litmus features social networking, user ratings, a blog, and the ever-present "beta" tag that's so cool with the kids these days. The service, which launched today at the venue formally known as the millennium dome, provides developers with access to O2 services and support, as well as a place to showcase and distribute new applications.

For a long time, I recorded a basic list of all the backups I made of my movie collection in a scruffy notebook. In due time, I found that relying on a simple piece of paper was wishful thinking. I then endured the laborious process of migrating my list to a spreadsheet on my computer -- but that still wasn't enough. Eventually I found Griffith, a movie collection manager, and was pleasantly surprised to discover what it was capable of.

Linux forums, mailing lists, and even howto articles are full of fearful comments against the Linux command line. "Pry my GUI from my cold dead hands!" is all too common. Nobody wants to take your GUI away, because with Linux you get the full power of both. Akkana Peck gives us a friendly introduction to the Linux command line, starting with a lesson on the fastest way to find files.

From the "lessons Microsoft should learn from open source" files: Windows users have a real problem when it comes to updates. Sure they have Microsoft Update and certainly many applications include their own update mechanisms. Yet despite that, there seems to be a problem with Windows users actually updating. Time for them to get a real package manager?

Red Hat and Ingres will offer a combination of Linux, JBoss middleware and the Ingres open source database as a new open source software stack to application developers around the world, the companies recently announced. It's neither a duplicate of nor replacement for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP combination) that has already won a wide following of application developers. Instead, the pair is seeking to create an enterprise-ready stack that can be used in transaction processing.

The Browser Security Handbook (BSH) from search engine company Google has been published under free license.

System76, which jumped on the Ubuntu bandwagon long before most PC makers, today unveiled the Gazelle Ultra -- a slick laptop with biometric security features, reports WorksWithU, the independent guide to Ubuntu.

Sun has reached an agreement with Toshiba to pre-install the OpenSolaris operating system on Toshiba laptops. The laptops will be available in the US from early 2009 and will come with the latest version of OpenSolaris: 2008.11. "Toshiba and Sun are announcing that we're going to pre-configure and optimise OpenSolaris for certain Toshiba models," said Jim McHugh, Sun's vice president of datacentre software, in a promotional video.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Friday, December 12, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 37. Today's stories ask you to decide whether Cisco is a good or a bad witch as the Free Software Foundation sues forward. Meanwhile HP shows IBM they aren't the only ones, netbooks are seriously hot, Amarok rocks hard, and even teachers can learn.

Codenamed "Coltrane", the major release of Wordpress 2.7 comes with more than a few changes. First, the most important: Wordpress v.2.7 has a one-touch refresher function.

Microsoft never utters the phrase “ Free Software”. Microsoft tries to obliterate the meaning of “ Free Software” as in fighting-for-freedom- and-against-monopolisation- of-knowledge-software (remember the distasteful comments of Bill Hilf, one of Microsoft executives, saying “ Free Software doesn’ t exist in 2007″ , there is no such thing as a free lunch, and etc ad nauseam) and instead substitute it by the much-easier-to-tame “ Open Source” phrase, which they promote for everyone to embrace, without any ethical implication whatsoever which must represent just a way of developing software and monetizing it.

Open-Xchange, the open source groupware company, is backed by a growing list of system integrators and hosting companies. Portions of the European market, in particular, are making the move to hosted Open-Xchange rather than Microsoft Exchange, according to MSPmentor. Here's the scoop.

In this article, learn how to integrate an x86-based IBM BladeCenter server and external IBM BladeCenter Boot Disk System SAS storage, as a critical prerequisite for a reliable Linux/blade server environment.