Tag Archives : Open Source

Salesforce is a company that appeared on time and did the right thing. The companies were dissatisfied with the models of software delivery of Sales Force Automation (SFA) and CRM. Upgrade costs, and taxes required by suppliers, reaching up to 30% of the initial costs of acquisition and implementation. The costs of implementation services were also [...]

Hardly the year started and the network of blogs WordPress has already presented a challenge to its users: the company wants to see their blogs updated daily or weekly. To join the challenge, the user just add the tag “postaday2011″ or “postaweek2011″ in their publications. To enhance the publications, the service created a [...]

Google announced last Friday that the Chrome browser will use the hardware acceleration to perform some tasks faster. Thus, the company follows in the footsteps of its rivals, Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla, which already use this resource in their browsers Internet Explorer 9, Safari 5.0 and Firefox 4, respectively, with the first and last are still [...]

Nokia and Intel announced today that its joint-venture software, seen as crucial to the Nokia enhances its leadership position in this market, started solidly. In February, the two companies announced the plan to create Meego, which would merge the software platform Maemo, Nokia, the Moblin, Intel’s, which is also based on open source software [...]

Oracle may discontinue the OpenSolaris package. In an internal circular, the company claims to be concentrated in the commercial version of Solaris, in an attempt to increase the company’s revenue with the sale of servers and other products. The report got a mailing OpenSolaris on Friday, March 14. For next year, Oracle announced the release [...]

The Linux Foundation reported on its website an initiative to help companies make available source code of the programs they deliver, especially those who use equipment with free licenses such as GPL. The intent is to prevent the erosion of free licenses for lack of knowledge of legal and operational aspects of disclosing the code. One aspect of the [...]

Dell will not sell more computers in Europe with Linux preinstalled, through its website – the primary source of order. From now on, consumers can only purchase laptops and computers with the system on purchases made by telephone. “Dell offers more than two years, the possibility of the customer choosing Ubuntu from the factory, and continues [...]

Reconstructor is an online service very practical and easy to use application that lets users create their own Linux distribution. With it you can add any package, application and file you want as a native feature of the new system created. A cool fact about Reconstructor is that the user can create a project and share with anyone. That way you and [...]

Chrome was the only browser to gain significant share of use in April, beating Firefox once again growing. In closing this month, Chrome, Google accounted for 6.7% of browsers used to visit the sites monitored by the company NetApplications. The browser has increased its share by 0.6 percentage point, by far the largest gain among the browsers in the [...]

The Synaptics, a maker of track pads, today announced that its software suite for Gesture touchpads is available now for OEMs. With multitouch support for some of its trackpads models. With it, usersof distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE and others may soon join the fashion of gestures initiated by the iPhone and enlarge images with a pinch gesture [...]