IT Pro: "With job losses rising and belts being tightened across the country, now is the perfect time to look once again at the benefits of using open source software aside from the reported $60 billion a year savings on offer."

Microsoft and the British Library have developed a research tool based on Codeplex and running on top of Microsoft Office's SharePoint. Source code and binaries are available for download, but to many in the free and open source software community, this type of software isn't open source or free.

Without firm targets, progress is likely to be limited. Since early last year, it has been the government's stated policy to use open source software in the public sector wherever possible, as long as it offers the best value for money.

Microsoft's strategy against open source ties up institutions that are authoritative, creating a benefit for the institution that ties its members to proprietary Microsoft tools.

SANDY, UT--(Marketwire - 02/09/10) - Opengear ( www.opengear.com ), a leading provider of next-generation console server and KVM over IP solutions, today announced that it saw significant growth and industry validation in 2009. "We made great strides in 2009 expanding our open source product line so that we could bring better out-of-band management to remote offices ...

Michael Tiemann, VP of Red Hat Open Source Affairs

Windows: If you like your software open-source, you'll definitely want to check out UltraDefrag, a snappy open-source Windows disk defragmenter. UltraDefrag is available as a portable application and...

The EU's Osor resource project now provides access to more than 2,000 open-source applications for use by public-sector bodies

The Symbian Foundation has announced that its mobile operating system will become completely open source from today.

The Symbian Foundation has announced that the mobile OS is now entirely open source, four months ahead of schedule.