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whitepaper Coping With an Open Bug Repository2006-02-24 01:01:25 University of British Columbia
  Most open source software development projects include an open bug repository - one to which users of the software can gain full access - that is used to report and track problems with, and potential enhancements to, the software system. Despite the rise in use of open bug repositories, there is little data about what is stored inside these repositories and how they are used. This paper provides an initial characterization of two open bug repositories from the Eclipse and Firefox projects describe the duplicate bug and bug triage problems that arise with these open bug repositories, and discuss how the authors are applying machine learning technology to help automate these processes.   
whitepaper Who Should Fix This Bug?2006-03-07 03:43:23
  Open source development projects typically support an open bug repository to which both developers and users can report bugs. Large open source developments are burdened by the rate at which new bug reports appear in the bug repository. This paper presents a semi-automated approach intended to ease one part of this process, the assignment of reports to a developer. The approach applies a machine learning algorithm to the open bug repository to learn the kinds of reports each developer resolves. With this approach, The authors have reached precision levels of 57% and 64% on the Eclipse and Firefox development projects respectively.   
whitepaper The Commercialization of Open Source Software: Do Property Rights Still Matter?2006-02-24 01:01:25 University of Texas
  A major shift toward open source software is underway as companies are more critically evaluating the cost effectiveness of their IT investments, seeing the benefits of collaborative development, and looking for ways to avoid vendor lock-in. The critics generally have applauded the shift towards open source, albeit for somewhat varying reasons. This paper responds to the trends by analyzing the role of property rights in the open source development model, with a particular focus on the effectiveness of the appropriation mechanisms that the open source model uses in lieu of intellectual property rights.   
whitepaper Mozilla's "Magic Pixie Dust"2006-03-07 03:51:55 openDemocracy
  When Firefox 1.0 launched in the UK back in November 2004, it made the headlines. It was the first time the release of a piece of computer software merited its own leader in a national newspaper. Online hipsters downloaded the web browser in droves, and the adoption of the open source technology snowballed. Firefox is better because thousands of man hours have been invested by people all over the world in making it a stable, usable and enjoyable piece of software.   
whitepaper Cloning by Accident: An Empirical Study of Source Code Cloning Across Software Systems2006-02-24 01:01:25 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  One of the key goals of open source development is the sharing of knowledge, experience, and solutions that pertain to a software system and its problem domain. Source code cloning is one way in which expertise can be reused across systems; cloning is known to have been used in several open source projects, such as the SCSI drivers of the Linux kernel. This paper discusses two case studies in which the authors performed clone detection on several open source systems within the same domain. In the first case study the authors examined nine text editors written in C, and in the second study eight X-Windows window managers written in C and C++.   
whitepaper Open Source Delivers for Government Agencies a Handbook on Pilot Projects2006-03-09 02:27:55 Government of Malaysia
  This handbook shares the success stories, experiences and benefits of the implementation of Open Source Software (OSS) in four pilot government agencies. The four pilot projects are part of the Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Initiative led by MAMPU. The pilot project for the Ministry of Finance (MoF) involved the upgrading of the Treasury Portal and development of the Economic Intelligence Database System (EIDS). The Treasury Portal and EIDS use PHP development platform operating on Red Hat Enterprise Server, MySQL database and Apache web server. The systems are best accessed and viewed using Mozilla and Firefox internet browsers. It can also be viewed using other internet browsers.   
whitepaper Requirement Engineering and Study of Software Evolution by Using an Open Source Bug Reporting Tool2006-04-19 01:01:15 Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  This short paper reports work in progress on planning and studying evolution of a product using Trac as an open source bug reporting tool. The authors have extended Trac to allow collecting data on requirement and defect types, their origin, and their impact on product characteristics. The solution allows integration of all change data in a single tool and study of different aspects of software evolution. It also supports project management in requirement management, planning of releases and allocating resources.   
whitepaper SimDesk Delivers On-Demand Computing Solutions to Government and Community Groups2005-09-01 03:00:04 SYS-CON Media
  SimDesk Technologies in association with HP jointly delivered the industry's first integrated open-source on-demand solution for population- and community-based computing. With this solution, governments and community organizations could offer cost-effective on-demand messaging, file, print, and groupware services to their constituents and community members to achieve their economic development goals. This solution supports Linux and Windows and utilizes an innovative hybrid architecture featuring HP Integrity NonStop and Linux servers to ensure maximum availability from a stateless architecture, which eliminates the need for resource-intensive client-server connections in favor of a transactional model with massive scalability.   
whitepaper Linux: Government Takes the Open Road - The Issues That Drive Federal Sector Computing Systems to Adopt Open Source Linux2006-02-02 21:52:09 Larstan Business Reports
  In today's post-9/11 world, the U.S. government is gearing up to fight a new kind of war: against cyber terrorism and a proliferating army of clever, persistent hackers. IT vulnerability is steadily worsening, as managers increasingly combat threats both internal and external, in the form of worms, viruses, Trojan horses, and the like. Hackers constantly probe government's IT defenses, looking for vulnerabilities. Linux is "clearly preferable" to closed, proprietary systems when it comes to enhancing security and addressing bugs/flaws or software remediation. With open source, everyone has access to the code, which means bugs and vulnerabilities are found more quickly and therefore are fixed more quickly, closing up security holes faster.   
whitepaper Oracle Deployment on x86-64 Linux: Best Practices for Oracle On Demand2005-10-04 03:00:05 Oracle
  Today, Oracle On Demand uses x86-based servers running 32-bit Linux OS in its data center. These servers offer excellent value and performance. However, in order to address limitations in 32-bit architecture that may affect performance, scalability, and reliability in some cases, Oracle On Demand is now deploying 64-bit infrastructure to complement the existing 32-bit environment. This white paper describes some of the limitations faced by 32-bit servers and how AMD Opteron-based x86-64 servers running 64-bit Linux OS are being used to address them for the On Demand environment. This paper includes best practices from the 64-bit deployment within the Oracle On Demand data center.