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La adopción de software de inteligencia de negocio (BI- Business Intelligence) open source se duplicará cada año debido a que tales productos son ya considerados por las empresas como lo “suficientemente buenos” para aplicaciones rutinarias, según Gartner.

En opinión de Andreas Bittener, analista de Gartner, los suministradores de software de inteligencia de negocio comercial ofrecen todavía una tecnología de BI superior a los productos de código abierto, pero éste está convirtiéndose poco a poco en una alternativa apta para los requerimientos rutinarios de Business Intelligence. (more…)

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El acuerdo tecnológico permite la creación de una solución única para las agencias gubernamentales

Pentaho Corporation (www.pentaho.com), compañía proveedora de soluciones de Business Intelligence de código abierto, ha firmado un acuerdo tecnológico con jAPS, una empresa especializada también en open source, bajo el cual proporcionarán aplicaciones de información para el gobierno italiano. A través de la integración entre jAPS y Pentaho, el gobierno italiano podrá tomar ventaja de las soluciones integrales de BI y con ello hacer accesible la información para todas las personas, incluyendo a aquellas con discapacidades.

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Two research reports outline the drivers of growth for open-source business intelligence — and what customers can expect as the market matures.

Business intelligence (BI) is going to open up over the next few years, according to two recently released reports. open-source technology, that is — .

“Venture capital flooding into open-source start-ups over the past several years resulted in an explosion of enterprise-ready tools and applications,” writes Mark Madsen, industry expert and president of Third Nature in one of the reports, “Open Source Solutions: Managing, Analyzing, and Delivering Business Information.” The report, published by BEyeNetwork, contains the results of Madsen’s survey of more than 1,000 information technology professionals. About one-third of the respondents claim to have deployed open-source software for reporting, data integration, or database analytics purposes, and more than a third say they plan to evaluate open-source for analytics in the near term. Only 12 percent of respondents say they have no plans to look into open-source BI. (more…)

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En noviembre de 2009 Google Chrome se subía por primera vez al podium de los navegadores web más usados, adelantando a un Safari que, aunque también gana usuarios, lo hace con menos facilidad, a pesar de ser el único navegador del Iphone y de tener disponible una versión para Windows. En los primeros puestos Internet Explorer y Firefox siguen dominando el mercado de los navegadores de manera apabullante. (more…)

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Muchas veces las empresas ven en el software libre una quimera difícil de descifrar. Es complicado enfrentarse a la decisión de optar por el software libre sin tener claro si a nivel empresarial es viable. Un apoyo fundamental para tomar esta decisión son los casos de éxito y alguno de ellos podemos ver en WhyFLOSS Conference 2010, un encuentro con el software libre. (more…)

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El problema en sí radica en el kernel de las versiones 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04 y 9.10. Las versiones 7.xx no están afectadas. Se trata de un problema grave ya que podría permitir el acceso completo al sistema entre otros. (more…)

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Red Hat has released a beta version of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 Linux distribution for testing. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, aka RHEL, is aimed at enterprise customers. As well as bug fixes released since RHEL 5.4, at this stage of the RHEL life cycle the next incarnation of RHEL5 also includes extensive new functionality and numerous drivers for supporting newer hardware. (more…)

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OpenSUSE Logo The openSUSE developers have announced the availability of version 1.7 of the openSUSE Build Service. The latest update features the addition of a new attribute system that can store information related to packages or projects, and even faster build speeds. According to the developers, the SAT Solver improves the speed of dependency calculation “by [a] factor of 1,000, which means a package change submitted to the build service starts building in seconds instead of minutes”. (more…)

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KDE Logo The latest 4.4 release of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) offers far more than just stability and bug fixes: The developers have added a special new desktop for netbooks, as well as more program options. They have also made major structural changes. (more…)

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Del 22 de Febrero al 25 de Marzo se impartirá en la Escuela de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, el curso de CENATIC “Desarrollo de Aplicaciones en Escritorios Libres”, cuyo objetivo básico es que el alumno sea capaz de programar aplicaciones para los entornos GNOME y KDE. (more…)

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Fedora Logo The Fedora-related Fedora Unity project has made respins of Fedora 12, which was released last autumn, available to download as ISO files for i386 and x86_64 systems. The respins are updated versions of the traditional CD and DVD installation media of Fedora 12 which already contain many updates that have since been released; once installation via such a respin is complete, users only need to install the package updates released by the Fedora project in the past few days. (more…)

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Después de una larga espera ya está disponible la versión final de OpenOffice 3.2.0, que está siendo distribuida en distintos servidores FTP en preparación para el anuncio en la página oficial del proyecto.

En comparación a OpenOffice 3.1.1 son muchos los cambios a notar. Entre ellos, mejores tiempos de inicio para Writer, Draw y Calc, mejor soporte para el formato ODF, soporte para formatos de propietario como los documentos XML protegidos por contraseña de MS Office, nuevos diagramas en Chart, cambios en la forma en que se ingresan los comentarios en Draw e Impress, y más. Todos los cambios están disponibles (y prolijamente ordenados por aplicación) en la sección de novedades de OO 3.2.0. (more…)

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Open Office 3.2.0 Final has been released and is currently distributed to mirror ftp servers worldwide to ensure a smooth delivery once the release notifications will be added to the project’s homepage. Five release candidates and numerous betas have made available before the developer’s of Open Office decided to release the final version of the Office suite. (more…)

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An study by the German web analytics firm Webmasterpro.de claims that a huge 21 per cent of German PCs run the Openoffice.org suite or other open source office productivity applications.

Apparently the company tapped in to a huge sample of over one million German Internet users and its magic Flash Counter Statistics Service spat out the following numbers. The largest group, 72 per cent of users stuck with Microsoft Office, 21.5 per cent chose a variant of Openoffice.org (including Sun’s Staroffice, IBM’s Lotus Symphony and other derivatives), 2.7 per cent preferred Corel’s WordPerfect Office, 1.4 per cent used Apple’s Iwork, 0.3 per cent selected Softmaker Office and 0.03 per cent chose Koffice, while 17.1 per cent didn’t have any office applications suite installed at all. (more…)

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The Symbian Foundation announced this week that the source code for the platform is now entirely open source software. It is distributed under the terms of the permissive Eclipse Public License and can be modified and redistributed at no cost.

Symbian’s path to openness began in 2008 when Nokia, which already owned half of the company, acquired the rest of the shares. In a partnership with other Symbian stakeholders, Nokia launched the independent Symbian Foundation with the aim of building a vendor-neutral ecosystem to advance the platform and facilitate its transition into an open source software project. (more…)

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