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Oracle Corporation have announced in a press release that they are opposing the EU's competitio

The open source world is not immune to the phenomenon of "takeover jitters".

"Cloud computing" is a term which has recently been created to describe how people are using a network of applications on the internet to do their daily work.

The Save Mart supermarket chain in the United States is in the process of changing over to the use of the Open Source database Ingres - according to a

Matt Asay in his "The Open Road" blog, writes that the open source community are marketing the benefits of the business use of open sou

The Jakarta Post reports that there is an accelerating "wave of migration" from proprietary to open

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is celebrating its tenth anniversary this week.

In a survey conducted by Computer Economics, the surprise conclusion was drawn that the key advantage of open source software was not its free or low price tag as many had expected.

The survey asked its readers / visitors to rate the importance of five aspects of open source:

• 44% - Reduced dependence on software vendors
• 22% - Lower total cost of ownership
• 17% - Easier to customize
• 14% - Do not see a significant advantage
• 3% - Higher level of security

This is the view of Jonathan Schwartz CEO of Sun Microsystems in an interview with the The Times of India.

He goes on to state that the adoption of Open Source Software is increasing rapidly. One important reason for this is the reduction in IT budgets.

The most rapid adoption of Open Source has taken place in areas of rapid economic growth, large student populations, which have high Internet bandwidth - such as India.

"Missing the boat" is how computer users who don't use Open Source Software are described on Monty's Muse.

Monty lists seven excellent pieces of Open Source Software which are helping to either save him time or even make him money:

1. Firefox webbrowser - more secure than IE and lets him auto-login to Facebook to make some bucks
2. Avast and AVG anti virus packages. (ed. Naturally these are windows packages ... :-)
3. OpenOffice office suite - a complete office suite with some features that surpass paid-for software