Stories about: Paradigm

The next-generation of the KDE open source project, version 4.0, has been touted as the beginning of a new era in desktop computing, but only two months from the first release some users are wondering if it's just all hype.

Emphasizing that more must be done to expand the volume of Linux applications, Novell President/CEO Ron Hovsepian proposed Wednesday that a standardized application certification process be developed among different players in the Linux market.

The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) has completed an 18-month project to enable virtualization across its x86 infrastructure resulting in over 100 virtual servers in production.

With lines in the sand being drawn in Microsoft's beef over open source and alleged patent infringement, potential major players in this battle are keeping their cards close to the vest at this juncture.

The Asia Pacific region for global financial services giant ING is now reaping the benefits of a move to a service-oriented architecture in the form of new and improved service delivery channels for customers.

IT's rise to prominence as a core competence that delivers competitive advantage has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in the number of software development projects it must complete. Well aware of the hidden costs of unfulfilled tasks, enterprise IT managers are fast shedding their prejudices against dynamic languages in search of a quick way to cut down the backlog.

The dot.com bubble burst - numerically at least - seven years ago this month when the NASDAQ Composite index peaked at 5,048 - more than double its value just a year earlier.

Someday soon, you might find yourself behind the steering wheel of your car and you'll want to dial your phone, find out where the nearest Starbucks is, change the music you are listening to and adjust your heat or air conditioning. And you will be able to do all of this with nothing but the power of your own voice.

The World Wide Web started out as a collection of static pages linked to one another. Of course, this was not enough for long. Today (especially with the arrival of Web 2.0) is the era of the Web application. While static pages still abound, the most popular -- and the most exciting -- sites are dynamic.

Chris Blizzard has been involved in the open source software community for over a decade. He has worked extensively on Mozilla's Firefox browser from the time it was open sourced by Netscape in 1998. He then joined Red Hat in 1999 because he "thought it was going to be interesting". At Red Hat he has been in a number of roles - initially building its next generation of support tools, then in its desktop group supporting and promoting its web browser solutions through to today's effort where he has worked on the customised operating system and Sugar User Interface for the One Laptop per Child project.

Iona has released Celtix Enterprise, an enterprise service bus for departmental usage and SOA, in a move to leverage the hybrid business model arising around open source software.