Articles by Jack M. Germain

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Neo Technology’s Emil Eifrem: ‘Cloud Is the New Open Source’

Graphs are everywhere. You find them on websites adding social capabilities. Telecommunications companies use graphs to personalize customer services. Innovative bioinformatics researchers, and other organizations are adopting graph databases to model and query connected data. ...

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Cut Yourself a Tasty Slice of Gnome-Pie App Launcher

Gnome-Pie could be one of the best user interfaces for accessing menus on any Linux desktop....

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Sauce Labs’ Jason Huggins: App Testing Is for the (Angry) Birds

Jason Huggins took Web browser and website testing to new levels. Pushed by several Aha! moments, he recognized a pressing need for automation in applications testing ...

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Ubuntu’s Raring Ringtail Is Kind of a Snore

The latest release of Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distro, version 13.04, or Raring Ringtail, comes with a big yawn factor.

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Puppet Labs’ Kanies: ‘The Right Resources to the Right Relationships’

Luke Kanies has a passion for the Puppet language he created. He always wanted to start a software company with Puppet as its foundation. The problem he faced was how to make the open source model support his software innovation without getting lost in the process. ...

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Buggy Install, No Support Take the Lead Out of Pencil

Pencil is an advanced drawing and animation tool that creates traditional, hand-drawn 2D animations and static sketches. Think of this animation/drawing application as an Etch A Sketch with colored sand on steroids....

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CAST’s Marc Jones: For Fed’s Open Source, It’s Trust and Verify

CAST Software is a software analysis and measurement firm that uses an automated approach to capture and quantify the reliability, security, complexity and size of business applications. A main company objective is increasing software assurance around reliability and security of applications delivered to the U.S. government ...

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When It Comes to Installation, xPDF Has a Hex on It

If you are looking for a fast, reliable, trouble-free, lightweight PDF viewer, and you stumble upon xPDF in your distro's app listings, keep stumbling. Chances are it will not run on your Linux configuration....

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CEO Brian Gentile: ‘Jaspersoft Has Chosen to Disrupt’

Business intelligence could be one of the most essential but little-known secrets that drives executive decisions in the marketplace. ...

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Knoppix Pulls a Lot More Than Its Own Weight

Knoppix is a lightweight Linux distro that is anything but light in its features and functions. It equals or exceeds the performance of all the desktop varieties I run in Ubuntu and Linux Mint. It also could easily replace the portability on a stick I get with Puppy Linux....

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Need a Great Archive Utility? Give PeaZip a Chance

PeaZip is a handy utility for reducing the size of large files and archiving different files into one big container. Unlike most file compression tools for Linux, PeaZip's user interface makes it easy to manage. When it comes to zipping and unzipping files, simplicity counts for most everything.PeaZip is a cross platform file and archive manager a...

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Morphlabs’ Yoram Heller: Gearing Up to Beat Amazon

Open source technology is central to Morphlabs' business model. ...

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Chakra: A Simple, Strong Energy Center for Your Desktop

Chakra is an unusual Linux distro that rethinks what the Linux desktop should be. It gives users the tools to do it their way.

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Kona’s Scott DeFusco: Open Source Advocate in a Closed Source Firm

Kona, an innovative social networking platform for businesses and organizations, was launched in late 2012. It grew out of a vision developer Scott DeFusco had for a way to solve communications issues shared in peoples' business and social lives. ...

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Speedy Synapse Fires Up Searches and Launches

Synapse is a desktop utility that adds speed and convenience to finding files and launching applications. It does not eliminate the Linux distro's menu, favorites bar or panel icons. Instead, it cuts down on how often you resort to using them....

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OpenFin CEO Mazy Dar: Bridging the Banks’ Technology Gap

Founded in 2010 by trading technology experts, OpenFin is growing on the heels of HTML5 standards edging out ill-fitting older Web solutions. Built onto an open source platform, OpenFin Desktop helps financial institutions to bridge the security gaps in their outdated Web-browser technology ...

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Sigil’s E-Book Editor Is a Bestseller

If you package e-books in the EPUB format, one of the handiest editing tools available is Sigil....

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Black Duck’s Dave Gruber and Peter Vescuso: Open Source Is Maturing

Mentioning open source to a typical consumer will no doubt result in puzzled looks or a reference to that "free stuff." Even in some business circles, the open source concept may only be synonymous with an alternative computer operating system known as Linux On the software development side of the computing industry, however, open source is known f...

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NEdit: With Great Power Comes Not-So-Hot Usability

The creators ofNirvana Editor, or NEdit for short, consider it paradise for writers. I found, however, that it's not yet the perfect text editor....

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Precise Puppy Is a Fast, Furious Distro

Puppy Linux is a distro I keep coming back to. No matter how entrenched I become with any flavor of Ubuntu -- sans the Unity desktop -- or Linux Mint's Cinnamon and KDE desktops, nothing can beat the speed, convenience and reliability of Puppy Linux on a stick Boot it directly from a hard drive or from an external drive; either method is fast and c...

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