http://www.maximumpc.com/tags/proprietary used for category lists, takes arguments en http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/can_opensource_software_survive_a_recession <p>If you haven't noticed the general collapse of the financial system around you, coupled with the massive switch to corporate cost-savings mechanisms (including a healthy dose of &quot;rightsizing&quot; by every company under the sun), then you need to stop playing Wrath of the Lich King and flip on the news.  Money is important, but perhaps never as important to the general corporate well-being as right now.</p><p>It's no surprise then that good ol' open source hardware and software platforms are being thrown into the mix now more than ever.  Semantic arguments aside, the open source movement is generally consider a cheaper, if not free alternative to proprietary, commercial software in the enterprise market.  But that doesn't mean that open-source software comes without a cost, nor are these companies necessarily immune to the financial movements of the technological industry. So where, then, does open-source development rest in the spectrum? Can these solutions do enough to save the bottom lines of big business?  Or are open-source companies just as doomed by a market slowdown as the software vendors on the other side of the fence?</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.maximumpc.com/files/u16580/daveblog_OSSmarket.jpg" width="415" height="178" /></div> <br /><p>Click the jump to find out!</p><p><a href="http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/can_opensource_software_survive_a_recession">read more</a></p> http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/can_opensource_software_survive_a_recession#comments Features business enterprise hardware market open-source proprietary recession Software Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:00:00 -0600 David Murphy 4271 at http://www.maximumpc.com http://www.maximumpc.com/article/we_can_rebuild_it <p>Why suffer the subpar performance of an old retail PC? Your computer can be made better, faster, stronger. We have the technology, so let us show you how.</p> <p><a href="http://www.maximumpc.com/article/we_can_rebuild_it">read more</a></p> http://www.maximumpc.com/article/we_can_rebuild_it#comments June 2008 From the Magazine Features alienware cyberpower dell feture hardware proprietary rebuild upgrade 2008 Tue, 27 May 2008 12:24:59 -0500 Gordon Mah Ung 2154 at http://www.maximumpc.com http://www.maximumpc.com/article/dell_drop_kicks_proprietary_parts <p>What's worse than the F-word? The P-word. Dell decides to join the crowd by just saying no to proprietary parts.</p> <p><a href="http://www.maximumpc.com/article/dell_drop_kicks_proprietary_parts">read more</a></p> http://www.maximumpc.com/article/dell_drop_kicks_proprietary_parts#comments News Editor Blogs atx dell desktop pc Gordon hardware news prefabdell proprietary system XPS Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:25:52 -0600 Gordon Mah Ung 1956 at http://www.maximumpc.com