Managing Your Source Code Effectively by Gijo George
Managing software source code in a large software development environment is not an easy task, especially when number of people working on different modules of a large project. If you have not employed a powerful system to organize your source code, then it will result in big chaos inside the... There are several tools available in the market which make the task of managing source code an easy one. ... This tool enables the organization of source code of different projects on a single server and developers can work on a particular file after doing checkout from the server.

Great Plains Dexterity: Customizations & Source Code Programming by Andrew Karasev
Great Plains Software Dynamics, Dynamics C/S+, eEnterprise were written on GPS proprietary programming language and development environment – Great Plains Dexterity. When Microsoft bought Great Plains Software, Dynamics was renamed into Microsoft Great Plains, but Dexterity is still the... In time MBS acquired Great Plains Software (with GP and Solomon), then Navision Software (with Navision and Axapta). ... Microsoft had to plan its newly acquired products integration and synergy • Source Code Program.

Escrow Software by Sandro Azzopardi
In a software scenario there are normally two main parties involved; the software programmer or the software company, and the end-user or the company purchasing the software package. Escrow software is a means by which a third party is involved, called an escrow agent, with the responsibility of... End-User Having an escrow software service, the user is guaranteed that the source code used for his business application can be available if anything had to happen to the programming organization or software developers.

Open Source Software (OSS) and Its Uses by Scott Morris
What is Open Source Software? Open Source Software (OSS) is software that is available under a special license that allows everyone to access the program code as well as the executable program. This means that anyone is able to edit the program code and therefore customise the software for their... One of the side effects of allowing any user access to the source code is that the cost of acquiring the software in the first instance is massively reduced. ... A successful Open Source Software project has a large community of software developers.

Why Should You Worry About A Malicious Code? by Johan Tengstrom
A malicious code can be a program. It can also be a part of a program. Further a malicious code can attach itself to a good program. In that way the malicious effect occurs first when the good program runs. The last time you installed a large software, let us say a photo program, you just... The only way to prevent an infection by virus is to avoid sharing an executable code with an infected source. ... A Trojan horse is a malicious code that besides its primary effect even has a non obvious effect.

Software Open Source Dilemma by Lance Winslow
Presently the European Union is requiring Microsoft to allow for more Open Source Code in its operating system so that software programmers can build add on products and continue to make money building software. Indeed this sounds like a very good idea for their businesses, which wish to build... Unfortunately it causes a huge problem for the future as malicious software writer’s design and build better; Spyware, Adware, Viruses and Malicious Software to steal your data. ... We have noticed that in the past many of the holes in software was indeed put there in order for the same reasons of...

Following the Movement to Open Source by Aaron Wittersheim
When it comes to security, versatility and stability, there is no better solution in information technology than open source. From operating systems to Web development to just about any common application, the open-source revolution finally has taken hold. ... It is used to describe initiatives and collaborations ranging from software projects to enterprise environments with source code that is accessible to anyone. ... Many open-source-based solutions like RedHat, Ubuntu and Suse are becoming down-right mainstream, drawing offers for proprietary partnerships from hardware giants like...

Microsoft Great Plains Customization Recovery & Upgrade for Large Corporation by Andrew Karasev
At the end of XX century, in the late 1990th Great Plains Software eEnterprise was recognized as one of the leader on the midsize to large corporate ERP market. Due to the nature of eEnterprise architecture - it is Great Plains Dexterity based application and Dexterity imposes some specific to... The nature of Dexterity makes the developer to produce so-called Dexterity chunk from this DYNAMICS.DIC with the source code, in the chunk itself the code is stripped off. ... If you can not find the source code, then customization should be understood and recoded – yes – how sad it might sound.

History of Linux by Bob Rankin
"I know that Linux is an alternative to the Microsoft Windows operating system, but when and where did it originate, and why is it free?" A Really Brief History of Unix Sometime in the mid 1960s, a bunch of geeks at AT&T's Bell Labs decided it would be fun to create a new operating system... You can obtain the source code, modify, sell or give away the software so long as you provide full source code and don't impose any restrictions on what others do with it. ... Since AT&T was not allowed to sell computer software at the time, it gave away UNIX (complete with source code) to any...

Contributor License Agreements, and the "Effects of the Devil" aka SCO by Kalle Alm
What? Contributor License Agreements -- or CLA's -- are a fairly new phenomenon in the Open Source world. IANAL, but I am going to make an attempt to explain what a CLA is, and why it is necessary today, where it previously was not. The most commonly used CLA is that of the Apache Software... If I help you out and patch up your code to make it run better, or submit documentation that makes your code more useful, or whatever, you and I both presume that I didn't steal the code from someplace and handed it to you in evil.