Open Source Today

Two disparate charities have successfully implemented open source software, saving money and creating happier users in the process. Jane Dudman looks at how open source can give smaller organisations greater control at minimum expense

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Having the latest computer technology is great. But what e-government users from the public sector as well as citizens really want is software interoperability. Unfortunately IT managers still only pay lip service to such interoperability, concludes a European project assessing today’s open-source movement. So reads the lead paragraph of an ...

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When Richard Stallman created the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in 1985, it was organised around a radical idea: software should be free, not just as in free of charge, but free as in the concept of liberty. During the next 20 years, this idea turned out to be not just ...

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Some of the most puzzling aspects of open source software – that is, software for which there is no licensing fee charged to the user by the creators – are those related not to the technologies but rather to the underlying economics involved. I've written before about some of the ...

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Open-source VoIP PBXes (Private Branch Exchanges) offer small to medium-sized enterprises a cost-effective entry point into deploying a VoIP PBX within their enterprise. Such PBXes could especially be an attractive option if you don’t want to outsource your VoIP PBX to a third-party provider. Open-source PBXes such as Asterisk 1.2.7.1 (www.asterisk.org), ...

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