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Horde open source groupware preps version 4 release

The Horde open source messaging and groupware project is gearing up for the first major release of its application suite and development environment in years with version 4 due in mid-2010.

By Rodney Gedda | 06 April, 2010 11:44

Tags: ajax, caldav, groupware, horde, open source, php

Five enterprise open source wiki apps to watch

Collaborative editing of Web documents has brought a new dimension to enterprise knowledge management. The architecture that made Wikipedia famous can now be applied to internal processes. And because of the long association with open source projects many of the most popular wikis are themselves open source. Here are five open source wikis to keep an eye on.

By Rodney Gedda | 21 September, 2009 16:33

Tags: collaboration, knowledge management, open source, wikis

The Microsoft-Novell Linux deal: Two years later

Two years ago this month, Microsoft forged its controversial partnership with Novell that, among other things, had the two companies agreeing not to sue each other over intellectual property issues, in part to protect Suse Linux users over any patent litigation from Microsoft.

By Paul Krill | 19 November, 2008 08:58

Tags: Microsoft, novell

Pushing project management to the collaborative Web

The increased use of the Web for collaborative activities, from music sharing to restaurant recommendations, is beginning to creep into business for useful things. At the Demo Fall 2008 conference in San Diego, several companies demonstrated collaboration systems for project management designed for workgroups of various sizes.

By Galen Gruman | 10 September, 2008 10:35

Tags: collaboration

Do's and don'ts for managing IT projects with wikis

Wikis are deceptively easy to use and install, so are nowadays found in all sorts of IT departments, especially as quick and simple project management organizers.