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Open source and innovation as maintenance models

08/21/2008  
Relevance: 7.40
Following my piece on a proposed model for enterprise applications maintenance, two fresh posts, one from Matt Aslett at 451.com and another from Leigh Cauldwell offer alternative ideas around how the present conundrum might be solved.
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Are proprietary maintenance fees worse than open-source maintenance fees?

12/04/2007  
Relevance: 7.39
Gartner has gone on the warpath, smacking down proprietary vendors' practice of discounting upfront license fees in order to lock customers into lucrative, ongoing maintenance contracts. The ironic thing is that it sounds somewhat similar to how commercial open-source companies price their software, except that there is no upfront license fees.
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Red Hat offers 18-month term for enterprise maintenance

12/19/2008  
Relevance: 7.25
Red Hat Inc. today unveiled a new service aimed at making it more cost-effective for its customers to run and maintain one version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for a longer period of time, reducing management and administration costs, the company said. Extended Update Support (EUS), a new maintenance option, allows customers to standardize their IT environments on a version of RHEL for 18 months instead of six months, the current time frame for Red Hat's maintenance contract, said Gerry Riveros, product marketing manager for EUS.
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KDE releases maintenance update

02/03/2007  
Relevance: 7.12
The KDE Project this week released version 3.5.6, a maintenance update to the popular free desktop for Linux and UNIX. KDE now supports 65 languages, making it available to more people than most non-free software.
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Unix maintenance costs spur Ohio EPA's Linux adoption

12/13/2006  
Relevance: 6.87
As a state run agency, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency couldn't afford a drastic increase in maintenance costs for its data center.
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WINE 1.0.1 Maintenance Release

10/18/2008  
Relevance: 6.40
Back in June was the release of WINE 1.0.0 and since then we have seen the continued development of WINE through the WINE 1.1.x series. Today though the WINE developers have gone back and released a WINE 1.0.1 maintenance release...
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ISO offers to take on ODF maintenance

10/08/2008  
Relevance: 5.95
The international standards body ISO has offered to help maintain the ODF document standard alongside its work on the rival Microsoft-originated OOXML specification, saying its creator Oasis is not dealing with defect reports quickly enough. At a meeting in Korea last week, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee for document standards, SC 34, issued a liaison statement to Oasis, the body that created ODF. It requested an"alignment" of maintenance of ODF between the work done at Oasis and that within ISO.
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DE: Foreign ministry:'Cost of Open Source desktop maintenance is by far the lowest'

11/02/2008  
Relevance: 5.50
The Foreign Ministry is migrating all of its 11.000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other Open source applications. According to Schuster, this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries."The Foreign Ministry is running desktops in many far away and some very difficult locations. Yet we invest only one thousand euro per desktop per year. That is far lower than other ministries, that on average invest more than 3000 euro per desktop per year."
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Apache and Lighttpd mod_rewrite for temporary site outage

12/31/2006  
Relevance: 5.13
Here's anice howto on using mod_rewrite under Apache and Lighttpd for temporary site outages. This tip will help you to disable a site for maintenance using mod_rewrite without redirecting url. Both Lighttpd and Apache webserver allows you to send this message to client using server side rewriting using mod_rewrite and php. This is useful if you are running popular database driven community or e-commerce website. Error 503 informs search engine that site is temporary out of service. A good idea if your websites is heavily depends upon search engine for selling products and services.
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New Tcl/Tk list, maintenance team forming

09/01/2006  
Relevance: 4.60
As Debian's tcl/tk maintainer for the last couple of years, I have decided that I can no longer go it alone. For this reason, I am attempting to put together a team to co-maintain tcl/tk and some of it's add-ons (e.g. tcllib, itcl).
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