Hire Joomla Developers

If you want to build a powerful website for a commercial purpose then there are certain aspects of site building that needs to be taken care of. It is important for you to hire professionals who are experienced in this field. Hiring Joomla developers can be a solution for this.
There are many tools available for [...]

Marketing and Outsourcing model of Open Source

It was in the 1960’s when researchers working on Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) concocted the term ‘request for comment’ to develop protocols for telecommunication network. It was from hereafter the developments what occurred lead to the term ‘open source’. It was sometime in 1998 when Netscape in a conference decided to go public [...]

New RSForm Pro revision – Revision 22 is available for download

Today RSjoomla launched the 22nd revision of RSForm! Pro, bringing a new feature:  generating XHTML compliant tableless layouts.
The new layout is called “Inline (XHTML)” and uses a series of list items to define the components, instead of table rows, like the “Inline” layout does. The layout has been tested with Joomla!’s Milkyway and Purity templates, [...]

Open source development

Open sourcing is the method or very simply the way of designing, development and distribution which offers the practical accessibility to the products sources. In another way it can be said that open sourcing is something in which source code (source code which refers to the before and after version of computer program that is [...]

The Open-Source Collaboration Gap

Why individuals contribute more to open-source projects than companies do.
When it comes to open-source communities, individuals are much better citizens than institutions. The enlightened self-interest that causes individuals to send back bug fixes, contribute ideas for new features and write documentation is much harder to find in institutions. This week, the JargonSpy analyzes why such [...]

7 Best Free/Open-source Backup Software for Linux

A computer application utilized to perform a complete backup by duplicating the original source of data is called backup software. Obviously, the main purpose of backup software is to create order out of chaos by recovering essential files in the event of a disaster.
If you are using Linux, there are plenty of backup software to [...]

Measuring Corporate Contributions to an Open Source Project

Open source is looking more attractive to software development managers who need to make their budgets stretch farther, as the enterprise can benefit from FOSS community’s contributions. Here’s how to participate in open-source projects and measure developers’ success.
January 08, 2009 — CIO —
If 2008 had a buzzword, it was probably “community.” [...]

The smallest threat to open source in 2009

How much of a problem is security updating for open source software going to be in 2009?
On the first of the month — also the first of the year — Dana Blankenhorn published the sensationally titled The biggest threat to open source in 2009. His thesis is simple: that, because open source software usually lacks [...]

open source phenomenon

When you say ‘open source’, you may be clear about what you mean. However, others are twisting the term for their own ends, says open-source expert Mark Taylor.
Like me, you’ve probably read articles on how free software, or open source, is going to thrive in 2009, and how businesses everywhere are going to survive the recession [...]

Open-Source Solutions Catch Fire with VARs

By Herman Mehling: Many channel partners discover open-source solutions are easier to sell, more profitable to service and can offer better margins than more traditional proprietary products.
There’s a love affair brewing between channel partners and open source. After flying below the radar for several years, open-source solutions are gaining altitude in the channel as VARs [...]