News Story by Rebecca Reid, ITWorldCanada
MAY 12, 2004 - Typical open-source project development strategies work well
for free software but don't flourish in commercial settings, according to
one expert.
Jim Herbsleb, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's International
School of Computer Science, part of the Institute for Software Research,
previously worked at Bell Labs at Lucent Technologies Inc., where he studied
why open-source projects such as Apache have been so successful in employing
a distributed development method. He spoke at the Open Source Conference in
Toronto this week.
Herbsleb looked at cases where many developers around the world would
successfully collaborate on one piece of software. He also examined why this
distributed development model hasn't thrived in industry. In fact, Herbsleb
said he found that it takes companies more than twice as long to develop
software in disparate locations than in one location.
One of the reasons why free and open-source software development has been
successful over disparate locations is that the work has been done by the
users, and these developer-users determine the functionality, Herbsleb said.
Read more here:
http://www.computerworld.com/developmentto...ory/0,10801,93109,00.html
(as an aside Rich, after you read this article, tell me if you find the
headline they used was fitting?)
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Subject: Re: {GATT-Tech} Weird Outlook Problem...
Kayode James wrote:
> Everytime I start Outlook, the Internet connection icons on the taskbar
> light up and stay lit, even after I stop d/loading mail and close the
> program. It looks like I'm sending info at a rate of about 3-4K a second
> as well, if the connection dialogue box is any indication.
>
> Oh yeah, earlier on I was getting trouble to send mail.
>
> I ran Norton, and I'm about to run those other spyware killers. I'll say
> what happens afterwards.
>
> What's really going on? Is there some sort of worm on the loose currently?
pwned by Sasser?
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