snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Bill Snyder examines what appears to be an open source job market boom, as evidenced by a recent O'Reilly Report. According to the study, 5 to 15 percent of all IT openings call for open source software skills, and with overall... ...full story at slashdot
from slashdot on Thu, Jul 24 2008
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| 24 Jan 08 |
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Move over, Red Hat. Open source ain't what it used to be (Bill Snyder/InfoWorld) » techmeme Move over, Red Hat. Open source ain't what it used to be — Has the open source software movement become a victim of its own success? A provocative new study by a longtime software analyst suggests that the giants of the... |
| 09 Apr 08 |
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Microsoft Gets a New Open Source Chief » slashdot mjasay writes "Microsoft just promoted Sam Ramji to run its growing Linux and open source operations. The former head of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab, Ramji has a long history with open source, having built out large-scale open-source based... |
| 17 Feb 08 |
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The Benefits of 'Vendor-Free' Open Source IT » slashdot mjasay writes "IDC has released a report looking into industry adoption of open software. In the study, analyst Matt Lawton stumbles across an intriguing trend: IT departments do most of the services around open source, rather than third-party consulting... |
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Bill Gates' Disdain for Open Source Even in Retirement » digg "There's free software and then there's open source," he suggested, noting that Microsoft gives away its software in developing countries. With open source software, on the other hand, "there is this thing called the GPL, which we disagree with." |
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HP Launches FOSSology Open Source Tracking Tool » slashdot cpudney writes "An article in Computerworld UK reports on a new open source analysis initiative launched by Hewlett-Packard. The FOSSology Project's mission is to 'build a community to facilitate the study of Free and Open Source Software by providing... |
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