Open Source is good for IRs

The University of Rochester's open source IR platform looks neat!

"Open Source" Cinema coming to a theater near you

Next coming years will be very exciting and challenging for media and information industry
Can't wait to see all the mashups and creativity that will come from Open Source Cinema

e-Science in action at myexperiment

myexperiment lets scientists share their research and scientific workflows.

If you are interested and trying to figure out applications in "scientific research workflow" watch these folks.

Benefits of opensource for entreprises

JP Rangaswami who is the CIO of Global Services for BT Group lists 10 reasons for using opensource in the entreprise"

"Opensource makes it easier for you to get married. When your architecture is primarily based on opensource components, software and data integration costs stay low and the process works.


Opensource makes you cleverer. You innovate faster because you have access to faster innovation. Whenever you look at an opensource ecosystem, try and compare it with a closed-source version. Compare it in terms of the time taken for launching in different countries, languages, whatever. I should say “try to compare it in terms of….”. There is no comparison".