Open Source Prospect in Healthcare Industry

There is plenty of enthusiasm surrounding the idea of open source solutions in healthcare, but getting policies in place hasn’t been easy. Open source advocate Fred Trotter was prepared to do battle when he met recently with representatives of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT), but got a pleasant surprise instead. “[Several] issues [...]

What do Enterprise expect from Cloud Computing

Both sides of cloud computing’s “enterprise readiness” debate are likely to have merit for years to come, as security, data portability and data accessibility represent just some of the issues that still need to be ironed out. But no matter which side you favor, I see two areas of cloud computing, at least in terms [...]

Future Trend to make computers more cheap and personal

As computing becomes cheaper, smaller and more mobile, our gadgets are morphing from desktops into notebooks and from netbooks into smartphones. But rather than focus on how small or cheap these devices can become, forward-thinking companies should focus on how their constant connection to the Internet changes what they can do with a pile of [...]

Example of Open Source Business Model: Open Solaris

I recently read an article mentioend that IBM is going to acquire Sun Microsystems for around US$ 6.5 B because of constant financial loss for the last two years. I don’t get any other information about why  Sun keep on losing money for the last two years, but my interest is Sun becomes important player [...]

Five Best Linux Distros – LifeHacker

There are many, many Linux distributions, and a lot of unique reasons to like them. Read on to see which open-source operating systems inspired your lifehacker readers

openSUSE
While not quite as simple to install as some of the other distributions on the list, openSUSE is quite user friendly. This distribution includes YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) [...]