LYCOS RETRIEVER Beta Retriever Home  |  What is Lycos Retriever?   
Open Source: Projects
built 278 days ago
Freed refers to the paradigm shift that Open Source projects like this are signaling: the end of the Internet's gatekeeper mentality. The most amazing thing about this OS project is seeing the twinkle in the eye of the website owner when they realize that they are finally receiving the keys to their entire website.
Novell has acquired SiteScape, an open source, Web 2.0-style team collaboration operation that started the ICEcore open source collaboration project and whose 12-year-old taproot goes back to that Google- that-might-have-been, AltaVista. Terms were not disclosed. SAIC has funded SiteSca
Microsoft first announced the open source Open XML-ODF translator project last July. In the past six months alone, the project has produced a Microsoft(R) Office Word translator, and beta translators for Microsoft Office Excel(R) and Microsoft Office PowerPoint(R), the latter of which are due to be completed early next year. The translators have already been downloaded more than 230,000 times since the project began.
The use of open source is fairly widespread throughout NASA. Open source is being used is as the operating system of Project Columbia. SGI's Linux-based Altix system operates at the heart of Project Columbia, which consists of a 10,240-processor Space Exploration Simulator supercomputer built to help NASA scientists with space exploration, global warming research, and aerospace engineering.
Source:
KETL is an open source ETL tool by Kinetic Networks that is gaining mindshare of late. It is currently downloadable as part of Bizgres BI project, but can be setup for other databases with a little tweaking.
SEARCH
MORE ABOUT