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This is not another debate, please. I am keen to learn from experts as to why there is not as much activity in this space?

We are trying to learn and apply some techniques to encourage Open Source Development (and not just evangelising OSS and using it) in India and other developing countries.

Please post your suggestions at http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1523398&forum_id=568033

Codeplex is Microsoft's community development Web site targetted to developers. You can use CodePlex to create new projects to share with your fellow developers around the world, join others who have already started their own projects, or use the applications on this site and provide feedback.

The currently popular projects listed on the site include

- Ajax.NET Professional Starter Kit

Business integration software has long been the exclusive playground of proprietary closed source vendors.

But a new open source startup called Jitterbit is hoping to change the landscape a bit with its newly released Jitterbit 1.0 platform.

Jitterbit's self-named business integration software enables users, on either Windows or Linux, to integrate and connect data from diverse applications, whether they're CRM, ERP, data warehouse or other data stores.

The data can be connected via XML or any number of other different protocols, including SOAP, ODBC , HTTP and FTP.

The Business Integration software space is full of large enterprise vendors such as IBM, webMethods, Tibco and even Microsoft. Jitterbit isn't necessarily going after the large enterprises though.

We are delighted that David Axmark, co-founder of MySql has agreed to be interviewed by our members at ITVidya.com.

David Axmark was involved with the MySQL database well before it had a name. David's primary focus now at MySQL is Open Source licensing and strategy, as well as community evangelism. He actively promotes Open Source software and MySQL at conferences and other venues around the world. Interested in free software since the early '80s, David is committed to developing a successful business model through Open Source software.

David has been visiting India often to give talks on MySql, I had met him at IIT during one of his visits to Mumbai.

Consider the beta.

Beta testing has been the cornerstone of the software development process for Microsoft and most other commercial software makers for as long as they've been writing software. But if certain powers-that-be in Redmond, Wash., have their way, betas may soon be a thing of the past for Microsoft, its partners and its customers.
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What's behind the shift?

Beta builds are predictable milestones by which external and internal testers have measured their progress toward the delivery of final code. Betas are typically few and far between, and feedback on them tends to be late and sometimes lame. But they are nonetheless a known quantity, and one that software developers, OEM partners and customers of all sizes rely on in gauging when and how to support a new product.

[Just copied from my original entry at my personal blog . For proper links etc please use the orginal post.]
Regular users of Samba protocol suite(Linux/Unixes way to access and be part of Microsoft Network Sharing protocol) might understand the importance of a mounted filesystem. Basically after mounting the filesystem you can access the files on the filesystem as if they were on your own system under the mount point.
This concept is also the basic of NFS mount which is very widely used for sharing a Disk across multiple remote systems. Users just mount some directory of the NFS share on their system and use the files on the remote system as local files.

This has been going in my mind for over 5 years within. Should a nation with more than a billion bodies be busy coding for billing or need to seriously innovate to develop to distribute?

I think I found the answer in Samooha http://www.samooha.com. Develop to distribute is the best way to go forward. It would not only be in the interest of a nation that is emerging out of woods but also would be in the greater interest of a balanced world.

Now bloggers have a greater role to play in shaping the destiny of "Develop 2 Distribute" through Samooha!

Steve Hargadon, who helped create the volunteer public Web kiosk project for Gulf Coast hurricane victims, also has a day job -- setting up Linux thin client systems based on the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) in schools.

Schools can save up to 75 percent of their technology expenses by using thin-client Linux technology with open source software for basic productivity computers. The savings may actually be greater when the costs associated with maintenance, licensing, and technical support are considered as well,

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Linux wants users who want Linux. And that doesn't mean just the name. It means everything: The free, open-source software; the ability to tinker with your software; the position of being in the driver's seat, in total control.

That's what Linux is. That's what it's all about. People migrate to Linux because they're sick of viruses, sick of BSODs, sick of spyware. That's understandable. But those people don't want Linux. They really just want Windows without the flaws. They don't really want Linux, and so Linux doesn't really want them.

But if they give Linux a try because of viruses and spyware, and then decide that they love the idea of an OS that they control. . . That's when they want Linux for its own sake. And that's when Linux wants them.