Monthly Archives: March 2010

Carnation Auto, a multi-brand auto sales and service company, has grown phenomenally after opting for an open source enterprise platform.

KPIT Cummins is a leading global IT Consulting organisation that caters to implementation of enterprise-wide solutions in the automotive, industrial and other segments. A few years back they shook hands with open source technology. Shirish Patwardhan, CTO and chief architect, KPIT Cummins, throws light on the growing market for FOSS solutions and the opportunity it brings along for the Indian FOSS community and industry players like KPIT during his discussion with Vanisha Joseph.

Envisage '10 saw participations from many prestigious institutions like IIT Rourkee, DCE, USIT, NSIT, NIT Kurukshetra, PGDAV, MERI, Dept. of Electronics and MBE from University of Delhi , LBSIM, JSS, et al.

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Xebia, an IT company working extensively on enterprise Java technology and agile software development, has been betting big on open source technology like JBoss in recent times. Anurag Shrivastava, head of Xebia India operations, talks to Vanisha Joseph about open source being the next big thing to watch out for by any developer/IT company.

Two months after the launch of Fedora 12, we spoke to Paul Frields, Fedora Project Leader at Red Hat, about how this release has been received by the community, and what is in store for the next. Though it started as a technical discussion on what Fedora 12 offers IT admins and developers, it graduated into a more serious conversation on the relationship between Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and the distinction (if any) between commercial and community Linux.

By targeting students from distant shores, a training and certification institution has created a lucrative offshore travel-cum-training certification business that could be the forerunner of a BPO-scale industry!

Here’s how to start using Django for Web application development.

Virtualisation continues to be a buzzword. The idea isn’t new in itself; IBM mainframes have always had to have a hypervisor. It’s in the news now because even simple desktops can now act as virtual machine hosts. A lot of possibilities have opened up as a result. Let’s take a brief tour of what virtualisation means, in its classic sense, and look at why open source virtualisation is going to win.

In the second part of the series on OpenLDAP, we'll cover rootdn password encryption with slappasswd, understand slapd.conf file structure, disable anonymous directory reads,...