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Management: Reducing IT risk aversionFriday June 09, 2006By: John Murray IT is a high-risk profession, yet some organizations are reluctant to assume reasonable levels of IT risk. When an organization is too cautious in dealing with the issue of risk, it may fail to gain all the potential benefits of information technology. Management: Considering an offer to manage an IT departmentTuesday May 23, 2006By: John Murray Congratulations -- you've received an offer to manage an IT department. Having worked hard to get that offer, your natural tendency is to accept. Not so fast! Software: Putting MediaWiki to use in an organizationFriday May 19, 2006By: Mark Alexander Bain Imagine how useful it would be to have an online knowledge base that can easily be updated created by key people within your organization. That's the promise of a wiki -- a Web application that "allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit all content, very quickly and easily," as Wikipedia, perhaps the best-known wiki, puts it. Why not bring the benefits of a wiki to your organization? Read more at NewsForge.com » Management: Pre-delete cruftWednesday May 17, 2006By: Lion Kimbro Cruft is clutter that bogs things down and gets in the way of getting things done. Idea clutter is mostly stuff that we could have gotten rid of to begin with. When you initiate an activity, determine a kill date for it at the same time. Software: Creating professional documentation with Linux toolsFriday May 12, 2006By: Scott Nesbitt Documentation is a necessary evil of software development. While Linux lacks standard Windows tools such as FrameMaker, RoboHelp, and WebWorks Publisher, it's still a viable environment for technical writers. Linux users can take advantage of a number of documentation tools, including both free or open source software (FOSS) and proprietary software. All of them give technical writers the ability to author and publish professional documentation. Read more at NewsForge.com » Management: How do you budget for FOSS?Tuesday May 09, 2006By: Jay Lyman Businesses seem to be champing at the bit to cut costs by using free and open source software, but many fail to budget for the necessary integration and support costs that go along with any software. Sand Hill Group co-founder M.R. Rangaswami says most companies turn to FOSS when they're in a fix, and do not plan out the other costs that may go along with software that was free to acquire. Software: A 100% free software-based Italian publisherFriday May 05, 2006By: Marco Fioretti Journalist Zenone Sovilla founded publishing company Nonluoghi Libere Edizioni (the name approximately means "Non-Places Free Editions") in 2002 after two years' experience running an online community called Nonluoghi.it, which he created to discuss social and political issues, with particular attention to the relationships between democracy and information. The focus of the newborn publishing house was on participatory democracy, libertarian theories, and nonviolence. Right at the start, Sovilla decided that this new business would not only support the philosophy behind free software, but also practiced it in full, since "it looked to be the only way to be consistent with the company mission." In practice, adopting free software was a bold choice in autumn 2001. Read more at NewsForge.com » Software: Xara retools for FOSSFriday April 28, 2006By: Bruce Byfield The conventional wisdom is that software development companies have trouble converting to free and open source (FOSS) business models. But someone seems to have forgot to mention that to Charles Moir, the upbeat CEO of Xara. Read more at NewsForge.com » Networking: LDAP in the enterpriseWednesday April 26, 2006By: Gary Sims The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a network protocol used to access a special purpose database (called a directory) that stores information about people, organizations, and computers. What can LDAP do for your business and your network? Read more at NewsForge.com » Software: Open source vs. proprietary management toolsMonday April 17, 2006By: Ranga Rangachari In deciding between open source and proprietary management tools, an organization may have to decide whether it's willing to forgo some niche features in exchange for a less costly tool that does 80% of what its proprietary counterpart does equally well. Large enterprises will typically pay for all the added features and functionality because they may actually use them. But the real sweet spot for open source management tools is the mid-market companies that want to manage things in a reliable way with a tool that's reasonable to set up, configure, and maintain, without a hefty price tag. With the advancement of open source management solutions, quality is becoming just as important a differentiator as value. Analysis: Why technical writers aren't using FOSSThursday April 13, 2006By: Bruce Byfield I once thought that technical writers would be one of the next groups to adopt free and open source software (FOSS). I reasoned that they were advanced computer users, and might absorb an interest through their daily interactions with developers. However, after discussing FOSS on the Techwr-l mailing list a few months ago, I realized I was wrong. A handful are using FOSS professionally, and a few were inspired by the discussion to try it. Yet most showed only mild interest. Some echoed myths that everyone in the FOSS community has heard before about lack of support or quality. The majority, though, showed a mixture of pragmatism, a clinging to the familiar, and a double-standard that, taken together shows just how large a gap still separates the FOSS community from many of those it might immediately benefit. Read more at NewsForge.com » Management: Rethink the way you hire IT professionalsMonday April 10, 2006By: John Murray Some organizations, in spite of their best efforts, are not able to attract high-caliber IT personnel. In the increasingly competitive world of business, IT plays a critical role in the success of the enterprise. Failing to attract highly skilled IT employees takes a competitive toll over time. Articles: ActiveState reactivatesThursday April 06, 2006By: Bruce Byfield David Ascher, CTO and vice president of engineering for programming tool vendor ActiveState, has seen his company through several incarnations. The latest change is ActiveState's re-emergence as an independent company after more than two years as a subsidiary of security software vendor Sophos. I talked with Ascher about what ActiveState's new status means, where the company has been and where it's going. His answers illustrate the challenges of building a company around free and open source software, and reflect how the market for FOSS has changed over the last six years. Read more at NewsForge.com » ITMJ Notebook: Outsourcer sees FOSS as unlikely allyWednesday March 29, 2006By: Bruce Byfield At first, outsourcing and free and open source software (FOSS) seem opposing trends. While many of its proponents see FOSS as humanizing the way that business is done by encouraging collaborative efforts, they often see outsourcing as the epitome of traditional business methods, destroying local jobs and exploiting developing areas of the world. However, Balazs Fejes, CTO of EPAM, a rapidly growing outsourcing agency in central and eastern Europe, has a different view. While Fejes acknowledges that the FOSS communities may sometimes provide an alternative to companies like EPAM, he also suggests that the growing popularity of FOSS provides a new opportunity for outsourcers, and helps to make their business more acceptable. ITMJ Notebook: Idlelo2 FOSS conference in KenyaFriday March 24, 2006By: Rod Amis Last month Nairobi, Kenya, hosted the Idlelo2 Conference, a major African free and open source software (FOSS) symposium sponsored by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), InWEnt Capacity Building International, Germany, and the eGovernment Directorate of Kenya. We spoke with one of the organizers of this year's conference, Milton Aineruhanga, program officer for Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET). Management: Introducing COBITThursday March 16, 2006By: Rod Amis COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology) is an international open standard of good practices for IT governance, security, and control. It is a framework that produces a verifiable audit of IT processes across the enterprise that can be used both internally and by external audtiors. With the high profile of the Enron scandal and the subsequent passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, business and especially IT managers' concern for governance standards and means of providing verifiable audits for both internal and external use, awareness of IT governance functions is at an all-time high. COBIT, many believe, provides a means of achieving these goals for the enterprise. Management: Knowing when to change jobsMonday March 13, 2006By: John Murray Any IT professional interested in developing and maintaining a career would do well to keep three issues in mind. ITMJ Notebook: Why LUGs matterFriday March 10, 2006By: Matthew Davidson Virtually the same day I read Joe Barr's article "Do LUGs still matter?" I received an email message saying that someone was setting up a new Linux user group (LUG) in my hometown. I attended the first couple of meetings of this group with Joe's article in mind, and with the perspective of a free software advocate, not a Linux or open source advocate. The experience made me realize LUGs do still matter, perhaps more than ever, although for different reasons than they once did. Read more at NewsForge.com » Hardware: Security on the go!Wednesday March 08, 2006By: Bindu Sundaresan and Pradeep Kanda This article focuses on a few practical tips for ensuring mobile device security. It serves as an overview of how mobile applications can put a company's vital corporate information at risk and the measures that enterprises should adopt to manage these threats. Software: View and edit graphic files with XnViewMonday March 06, 2006By: Tana Georgieva I've tried many image browsers over the years, including IrfanView and ACDSee, but after using XnView, I can almost forget about the rest. Read more at NewsForge.com » |
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