Destricted is an explicit film company based out of London, UK. They essentially define their brand by not defining it; that is, it is a blur between pornography and art, and maybe something different altogether. Mel Agace got the idea for Destricted a few years ago while researching material for her publication entitled ‘The Sex […]
Universities Save Time and Money With Open-Xchange
Stability, Availability and Reduced Costs Drive Widespread Academic Adoption of Open-Xchange TARRYTOWN, NY, December 12, 2006 – Open-Xchange Inc., the leading provider of open source collaboration software, today announced that it has secured additional customer wins in the higher education market space. The Polytechnic of Namibia and the University Hospital of Cologne are using […]
Open-Xchange Announces Partnership with MySQL AB
Leading Linux-based Collaboration Server to Extend Database Support TARRYTOWN, NY, December 7, 2006 – Open-Xchange Inc., the leading provider of open source collaboration software, announced today that it has signed a partnership and support agreement with MySQL AB, the developer of the world’s most popular open source database. This partnership enables Open-Xchange to embed […]
Wikipedia Founder to Offer Free Software & Hosting
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales just announced the launch of Openserving, a site that offers free web hosting and wiki software. So how is that different from Wales for-profit Wikia? Well, it’s not. Yet. The big move that has guys like Reuters declaring, “Wikipedia founder remakes Web-publishing economics” is Openserving’s seeming encouragement of user-implemented advertisements. Right […]
Digg to Feature User-Generated Content
Digg, a news website that ranks links according to user votes, may be ready to shake things up a little more. A friend familiar with the matter tells me that the self-proclaimed "user driven social content website" has plans to start featuring user-generated content. Presently all listings on Digg point to external sites. What would […]
Open Source Transparency — The End of FUD
Open Source Transparency: The End of FUD Dan Kusnetzky, EVP Marketing Strategy and Paul Sterne, CFO An Open-Xchange Position Paper This position paper will address the question, "Can the open source approach to software development promote transparency and remove FUD — fear, uncertainty, and doubt?" By requiring that the source code is freely available to […]