Wednesday | 7 January, 2009
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Stories by: Julie Bort

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    15 amazing Web apps built in 48 hours 12/11/2008 10:41:00

    Winning entries from the annual Ruby on Rails coding contest.
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    Enterprises grow more savvy over open source 22/05/2008 09:34:17

    Open source icon Stormy Peters is co-founder of the non-profit GNOME Foundation and director of community and partner programs for OpenLogic. Peters recently discussed why enterprises don't know how much open source software they use, how newbies and non-programmers can become involved in the movement and why she thinks open source software is more secure than proprietary code.
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    The making of Wine (how to make Windows apps merrier with Linux) 16/04/2008 10:52:00

    Jeremy White, co-founder and CEO of CodeWeavers, talked about how Wine might make IT professionals a lot merrier. For those wanting to save money on desktops by using Linux, but feel trapped into Windows because of the need to run Windows apps, Wine can help. Ten days ago, the folks at CodeWeavers released the almost official version of this open source project that allows Windows programs to run on Linux and Mac desktops. Wine is on course for official release, its 1.0 version, in the next 60 days.
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