Thursday Mar 11

Open Source Consulting

Open WebApps enables business to reduce costs, accelerate innovation and mitigate liabilities. Open WebApps helps businesses in the following areas:

  • Selection of open source solutions that fit business needs

  • System Design

  • Software Development

  • Software debugging and testing

  • Performance optimization

  • Integration with the open source community

  • Software update and ugrade policies

  • Security improvement and audit

  • Project Management
  • Change management

Sun Banks On Open Source For Its Survival

by Soulskill

CWmike writes “In moving to cut its current workforce by between 15% and 18% today, Sun is trying to stay ahead of a falling knife. And today’s announcement made it clear that Sun officials are banking on the company’s open-source strategy to help it pull through. A cut of up to 6,000 employees at Sun will hurt, but CEO Jonathan Schwartz contends users will be more inclined to try open-source products such as MySQL, OpenSolaris and Sun’s GlassFish application server during a time of economic stress.” Reader Barence also pointed out that Sun will begin to auction “branding space” in OpenOffice.

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SAP and Microsoft, Watch Your Back

Google Apps, Linux, and other free or inexpensive systems are winning more fans in the corporate world
The outlook for retailing may be dicey, but Gothic Cabinet Craft, a furniture chain with 40 stores in New York and New Jersey, has one variable under tight control: tech spending. It just installed a new computer system equipped with Google (GOOG) Apps, a collection of software, including e-mail and word processing, that runs on a Google data center rather than on Gothic's gear. The cost: just $32,000 for the new PCs and zero for Google Apps. The alternative was shelling out more than $100,000 for computers and Microsoft (MSFT) software. "We wouldn't have been able to do anything if the Google service wasn't available," says Aristidis Zaharopoulos, the company's vice-president.

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