Links to various news items of interest to small and medium sized businesses looking to adopt Open source and cloud based technology in their companies
The Small Business Guide to Google Apps – good alternative for MS Exchange
Want Broader BI Usage? Crystal Founders Offer Indicee
SAP executive bloodbath continues
Open Source ERP Software Leader xTuple Launches iTuple for iPhone and iPod
The UK government can reduce cost and risk by migrating to open source
Install xTuple ERP Postbooks Edition
French Military Donated Code to Mozilla Thunderbird
5 Open Source companies that will rule the post-ERP world
5 technologies expected to see huge growth in US gov’t
The New Economics of Open Source in the Enterprise
EMR likely to boom throughout 2013
Enterprises saving $26 million per project with open source
New kids in the Open source cloud
The success of open source software (book)
More small businesses are adopting open source
Open Source ERP Applications: They’re Real and They’re Spectacular
Proprietary vendors lose £30bn to open source
Government’s first cloud service now open for business
Open source software can save India $2 bn
The End of IT 1.0 As We Know It Has Begun
U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency teaching the feds to open source
10 Ways Open Source Can Save Your Company
The Business Model of Commercial Open Source Software
Open Source Software saves Indian IT@schools program $2 million
Why cloud computing needs open source
Edmonton considers divorcing Microsoft
The Gap moves from Windows to Red Hat Linux
Microsoft Profit Falls 29% as Software Demand Wanes
Born free – Open-source software in the recession
Open source in small and medium sized businesses
Of hospitals, health and private information (Vancouver Sun)
Cloud computing to fuel open source explosion
The Economist: Open Source Software in the the Recession
FOSS, the Recession and the Lower-TCO Promise
Forrester: Lots of room for open-source growth | The Open Road – CNET News
Commissioned Study Shows Open Source Paves The Way For The Next Generation Of Enterprise IT
Open source gains while proprietary software declines | The Open Road – CNET News
Study: Open source worth $387 billion (in savings) | The Open Road – CNET News
Open-Source Software Gains As Moneymaker
SugarCRM: Opening up the source to SaaS | The Open Road – CNET News
Opening new doors with Open Source – Features – CRN Australia
Business is booming for open source
Article on Sugar vs. Salesforce
Open source ERP article about xtuple
xTuple Open-Source Community Provides An Edge In ERP
Apple needs open source in the enterprise
Open source makes serious headway in the U.S. Department of Defense
Forrester’s five phases of open-source success
French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu
Open source apps player xTuple expands vertically and starts thinking modularly
Open Source ERP – A Review of Compiere
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