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Open-source consortium wins EC funding

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Open-source consortium wins EC funding

A European Commission-funded consortium has raised almost $4 million
to fund a project testing the quality of open-source software.

University dumps Cisco VoIP for open-source Asterisk

as software technology becomes more of a commodity:

University dumps Cisco VoIP for open-source Asterisk

Some organizations consider taking the plunge off of big iron PBX
platforms into IP telephony as being pretty daring, but that's nothing
compared to what Sam Houston State University (SHSU) is doing. The
south Texas school is boldly moving thousands of users off a Cisco VoIP
platform to an open-source VoIP network based on Asterisk.

Unisys to help build open source site

Unisys to help build open source site

OCT. 11 8:20 A.M. ET
Unisys Corp., an information technology consulting and
outsourcing company, said Wednesday its Unisys Belgium unit is part of
a consortium that will build and manage an open source software
repository for the European Commission.

Google crawls into source-code search

Google crawls into source-code search

it's all becomign a commodity: The company on Thursday launched a Web site, Google Code Search, which the company says will let programmers search billions of lines of code for tips on how to write their own software.