What vendors really mean by ‘open source’

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What vendors really mean by Vendors may describe a particular software offering as ‘open source’, but you’d do well to examine their words extremely carefully, says Mark Taylor

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Best video from 2008

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Best video from 2008Tech titans from both sides of the open/closed divide? The biggest science experiment in history? Scary robot spin-offs from The Lord of The Rings? ZDNet UK presents the best of its 2008 video content

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2009’s major milestone for computing pioneers

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2009Two historic British computers, the Manchester Mark 1 and Edsac, went live 60 years ago next year. Both systems were the immediate forerunners of the first commercial systems

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Dialogue Box 5.3: Solid-state disk torture test

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Dialogue Box 5.3: Solid-state disk torture testLast year Dialogue Box showed that radiation could affect data-transfer rates on solid-state disks. How does the latest generation of products stand up to a similar zapping? Rupert and Charles don the lead-lined lab coats…

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Will 2008 prove the year the web grew up?

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Will 2008 prove the year the web grew up?After the turbulence of the browser wars and the dot-com crash, the emergence this year of open development standards hints at a new-found maturity, argues Bruce Lawson

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