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Open Source Chat Software Solutions

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Many software development companies offer open source chat software solutions. These software program enables the user to chat from anywhere at anytime.  AJAX Chat, X7 Chat, DSpace, LlamaChat are some of the well known open source software programs. These programs enable the users to send quick chat invitations to their friends, business associates and others. Easily one can chat with any number of people and set away messages. These days many open source chat software have the feature to save the history of chat for easy reference. These online chat softwares are used to create online discussion forums. They are generally written using PHP programming lanaguage and uses MySQL as the database. vBulletin is one of the online discussion forum software that can run on any platform that supports PHP. Apart from creating discussion forums these online chat software helps in creating an online community of users.

Some companies prefer to have internal chat software for better communication between the employees as they can solve their problems quickly through instant discussions. Further these chat programs can also be used for interacting with the clients. Easily they can ask questions over the Internet and set chat server software on your company server.

If you are interested in getting an open chat software program designed and developed then hire a team of professional who have the experience in designing and developing the open source chat software. Before you hire a company make sure that they provide you with following features:

* Demo

* Screenshots

* Features

* Requirements

* Documentation

* Support

* Team

* Localizations

* Credits

* License

* Download

* Source

Some companies these days offer with 100% chat customization facility as well.  Even the multiple language option can be set if you desire so. The administrator depending on your need can define the configuration parameters for the documents that can sent as an attachment.

Open Source Customization / OpenSource CMS For Innovative Website Design

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

It seems that open source software (customization) is really coming of age now. It’s making its mark in the commercial world, it’s rewriting all the rules, and it’s impossible to ignore it. When it comes to open source customization, Jooma is a great option. Through Joomla, you can build an attractive and innovative website, and Joomla’s various development solutions are bound to make you happy. So what is Joomla then? It’s a free open source CMS (Content Management System) which makes your site look much, much better. There are many Joomla developers around, with many years of experience, who will be able to give you exactly what you need. You can use Joomla, or any other Open Source CMS, for that matter, to get great features like Directory, Picture / Photo Gallery, Help Desk, Support Desk, Google Map, Real Estate Property Rental, E-commerce, Showcase / Catalogue, and Recruitment / Job Portal, besides many others. In fact, an Open Source CMS can even give you Newsflash scrolling and a Chat room!

Open source customization is always guaranteed to give you wonderful results. At the end of the day, it boils down to you choosing the right application, and getting it properly implemented with the help of suitable expertise. Open source customization can help you build a highly interactive and innovative website (a modular one that gives you options to upgrade), with a website design that is both stylish and affordable. You should go for an Open Source CMS that gives you options like Printable Versions, Page Caching, RSS Feeds, blogs, etc. If you go for Joomla in Open Source CMS, then you must consider services like Joomla Module Installation, Joomla Custom Design Templates, Joomla Design Integration, Joomla Custom Modules Development, Maintenance Work for Joomla Portals, Joomla Custom Components Development, and Joomla Custom Modification and Customization.

When it comes to you, nothing is too good for your website. That’s exactly why you should choose a good form of Open source customization, and a good Open Source CMS, to make sure that your website looks flawless, and runs flawlessly too. There are loads of companies out there who will take the responsibility of such a task for you – go for one that is effective and efficient in its administration, one that gives you high-level server security, responsive services, complete e-commerce solution (permanent and fast storefront access), etc. Open source customization can give you an E-commerce solution that not only supports multiple languages, but is also SEO-friendly. It is essential to put your company’s business online, and to do that, you need a website. That is why a great looking website is always important, and for that, you need proper Open source customization and Open Source CMS. Magento in particular is highly recommended, because it is good at customizing your content, looks, and templates, as well as functionality, of the website. With Magento, you get many customer-friendly features, and you can localize your content as well. Yes, a good website is essential, that’s where Open source customization and Open Source CMS is important.

IBM Acquisition of Sun Microsystems – Trading JAVA

Sunday, December 4th, 2011

With the doubling of the JAVA stock price on March 18, 2009 based on a Wall Street Journal report that IBM is bidding to buy Sun Microsystems, and with the StockTradersPlace sell action commentary on March 21, one open question is “Should the stock be shorted?”. Here is where other factors have to be considered beyond technical analysis. With speculation that other companies such as Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Cisco Systems (CSCO), among others, may want to buy Sun Microsystems, a bidding war can emerge. For this reason, it is probably risky to short the stock at this point, although selling the long position holding is the prudent thing to do.

I continue to be amused by corporate acquisitions and the price paid for such actions. I was involved in such a scenario in 2001 (at the onset of the tech/telecommunications industry meltdown) where the company I was working for ballooned to 95,000 employees largely on the contribution of various corporate acquisitions leading up to year 2001. Today, that company has less than 32,000 employees and has filed for bankruptcy protection.

The previous paragraph was not meant to suggest a similar fate for IBM but was simply old memories coming to the fore as this Sun Microsystems acquisition is being reported. The price is high at $8B. There will be corporate culture clashes and integration issues, as well as clear conflicts in technology in terms of Intel and Advanced Micro Devices microprocessors used in IBM server products versus the Sun Microsystems SPARC architecture microprocessors.

And what is the latest craze with Sun Microsystems anyway? Well, Sun’s legacy is in engineering workstations and server products. But in 2007, Sun changed its stock symbol from SUNW to JAVA to clearly re-orient the company strength and leadership in the JAVA programming language. As significant as the JAVA technology is to the Web computing industry, one must continue to question how they intend to make money from this. As an investor/trader, that is the most important question to answer.

It will be very interesting indeed to see how this unfolds if IBM does end up acquiring Sun Microsystems. Will IBM then customize JAVA for its own internal purposes, thereby creating a potential issue with the open JAVA standard? How does IBM intend to recover the $8B spent predominantly on the acquisition of the JAVA technology which rightly belongs in the domain of open standards.

As an investor/trader of JAVA now and IBM now and in the future, the company fundamentals are extremely important to analyze beyond the technical analysis indicators. This is the time to avoid being over-focused on technical analysis alone.

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Open Source Initiatives Need More Concerted Efforts

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Major corporate houses choose open source partly due to the economic gains and mainly due to the control the open source system gives to their hands.

The quest for control is a serious problem in open source arena. The problem sometimes seems trivial, but is really a loss of manpower by the professionals developing programs in open source environment. The problem is seeking too much of control leads developers develop their own solutions for specific issues.

Reinventing the wheel is quite a common problem in open source arena. Instead of using an already popular script, developers tend to write there own scripts for specific tasks. There may be hundreds of scripts with similar functions. There are however instances when a developer has to come up with something new when the existing system doesn’t give the expected results. Developing a code from scratch will be faster than modifying existing program.

Proprietary software, in this sense is quite advantageous here. The developers working with proprietary software hardly ever goes to coming up with their own script as a solution for immediate problems at hand. Then again, proprietary software developers too invent their own wheels, but the goal is to avoid nasty situations like legal problems.

The nature of shared development of software development appeals to the human nature to have control over their destiny. This is true even when they can get customized ‘solutions’ by proprietary software vendors. The future is in open source, but it is premature to make predictions as to when Linux or an open source OS cross runs on 50% of the computers of the world.

Incidentally Microsoft Corporation’s Shared Source Program is an effort by the corporate giant to somehow win the trust of open source community. Though Microsoft allows a peek into the source code, redistribution rights are neither granted nor expected. Only an illusion of free handling of source code, shared source program lacks the democratic nature of all open source initiatives.

Back to open source initiatives – open source initiatives find it quite difficult to get professionally talented developers to the fold, especially in the beginning stages. This is true for almost all open source initiative. The situation reverses when there are enough people in the fold and the project takes momentum at SourceForge.net.

There is one last thought for major corporations that have become so stepping on open source shoulders – spare some of your resources to enrich free software and open source software community.

The best place where you can get your custom-made open source software

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

One has to remember something. Some of the best things in life are free! These things come in the form of open source software. Ever since Linux started distributing their open source Linux software all over the world, free of charge, every single IT company has jumped on the bandwagon and wants a piece of the open-source software. What they need is your custom and, the moment you get hooked up on their effective software they hit you with a notification that you need to buy their license. You have to pay so many dollars so that the license key can be activated and it is only then that the software is going to work efficiently on your computer. There is one point which irritates many people who are browsing around the Internet. They want the software which is made to their own specifications, their own functions and the modifications which they like. Every single software out there cannot be modified unless you know the source code. There are also threatening sounds made by software if you try to load them on some other computer more than a given number of times in the shape of, "buy the license or else."

Many of the people searching the Internet out there immediately decide to pay a sum of money to such coercion because they would rather pay up than have their software folding up in the middle of an important program. Nevertheless, even though open source Linux software is completely free, it is very easy to get this software customized according to your requirements. This can be done very easily from us. If you are buying the software from us, you do not have to pay anything for the modifications. You also don’t have to worry about any licensing problems and demands for the license number popping up every five minutes on your screen, once you have got your software modified from us. You can add, multiply, subtract and divide the functions of the software, according to your wish and requirements. We have a large number of experienced software engineers who are just ready to do this work for you whenever you want and however you want the work done.

Now imagine that you want some special function added to a PHP script or Perl scripts. All you have to do is tell us all about your requirements and the functions which you want, and how they should be modified or added. We are immediately going to do that for you. Remember every single modification on any custom made open-source software brought from us is done by us completely free.