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Sharing data between business applications

In modern business it has become the norm for data to be required to move seamlessly between the many software applications that are in operation. However you don’t need to buy your Learning Management System, HR System and Customer Relationship Management system from the same vendor to make this happen. The advent of web services in the last decade coupled with the efforts of forward thinking application vendors in creating open interfaces to their products means that data can now be transferred to and from business applications with relative ease.

How reliable is open source software?

One of the questions we often get asked by enterprise open source customers is around the reliability of open source software. How do we know it’s been tested properly? What guarantees can you give about software quality? And so on. Answers to such questions are easily summarised, but in this article Kineo Open Source CEO Mark Aberdour attempts to present a greater level of detail to this important issue.

Surviving the Downturn with Open Source

In the current downturn budgets are being cut, and many companies are looking at opportunities to reduce costs by using open source software. According to Matt Aslett, an analyst at consulting firm 451 Group while open source software is already widely used to help businesses run their servers and database management systems, it's gaining wider acceptance in such areas as collaboration, customer relationship management, and supply chain management.

Managing open source procurement

A couple of interesting reads about OSS procurement came our way this month that will make useful reading for anyone thinking about adopting open source right now (and if our phone lines are anything to go by that’s an awful lot of you!)
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Open source learning management systems: a primer

We were delighted to be able to contribute this feature article on open source learning management systems to the November 2008 edition of Learning Technologies magazine. In this feature Mark Aberdour, Kineo Open Source CEO, provides an overview of the rise of Moodle and the wider open source learning management systems market.