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Over the years, I have turned to Linux and the Open Source community for a number of solutions to obscure and difficult problems.

Over the years, I have turned to Linux and the Open Source community for a number of solutions to obscure and difficult problems.

Computerworld: "One of the goals of the survey was to examine the influence of SharePoint and the Microsoft stack on the open source community."

The Open Source Barometer III shows that 71% of members use or intend to use Java as their architecture. Java has for a long time been strong in the open source community.

However, the analysis further segmented the Windows-only users and found that 86% do not use or intend to use .NET/Web Parts and 53% want a Java architecture.

Last month, the open source community was buzzing over a report released by the Linux Foundation that placed the value of the Linux ecosystem at around $25 billion.

Here is an interview with Amanda McPherson, the foundation's VP of marketing & developer programs, to get her thoughts on the study.

CIO: "Yet a closer look from open-source software developers and industry analysts reveals that enterprises using outsourcing for their programming needs could stand to learn some management and process techniques from the open-source community."

Creative has finally come to its senses and turned to the open source community to raise its X-Fi series of sound cards from the ashes on the linux platform, which got burnt mostly due to the poor quality of the drivers that Creative was giving out.

The conversation naturally goes from there to giving examples of Open Source programs this person might be using unwittingly.

Here are X programs that the whole Open Source community is very proud of.

Xubuntu: "The Xubuntu team is happy to bring you the latest and greatest software the open source community has to offer.

This is their latest result: Xubuntu 8.10, which brings a host of excellent improvements built on the rock solid Xfce 4.4.2 desktop environment."

Next, the release of Xubuntu 8.10, a desktop distribution designed for users and fans of the Xfce desktop: "The Xubuntu team is happy to bring you the latest and greatest software the open source community has to offer.

This is their latest result: Xubuntu 8.10, which brings a....