Cynthia Harvey

Downloading free software is one of the great uses of the Internet. The Web is like one vast smorgasbord of free software – just fill up your plate with tasty downloads. All your desktop needs are addressed in this list: firewalls, email, IM, FTP, graphics, RSS readers, video tools. Start downloading! Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware 1 avast! A […]

About a year ago, we took a look at the growing trend toward open-source security and highlighted 10 of the best apps available. Since then, the area has continued to mature, and now we’re back highlighting 75 of the most frequently downloaded open-source security applications. Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware 1. ClamWin Free Antivirus This Windows-only app uses the […]

Perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise that the company that coined the term “word processor” created this year’s Datamation Product of the Year winner in the office productivity suite category. But the brand new IBM Lotus Symphony suite was the undisputed underdog in a race against more mature and well-known rivals, including Microsoft Office and […]

Just a few years ago, server virtualization was strictly for large enterprises. Today, VMware is helping change that perception thanks to its free VMware Server offering. According to the company, VMware Server has been downloaded more than 3 million times since 2006, with more than 70 percent of those downloads going to small and medium-sized […]

Recently, Datamation readers voted the IBM p 570, a mid-range UNIX/Linux server, as the Product of the Year in the enterprise server category. When it was launched last May, the updated p 570 featuring the POWER6 processor received a lot of praise for its performance. After all, at 4.7 GHz, the new processor was twice […]

IBM’s Innov8 isn’t like most of the other winners and nominees of this year’s Datamation Product of the Year Awards. It’s a serious training tool, but it’s also a game. In IBM’s terms, Innov8 is a “serious game,” a “business simulator” that teaches the concept of business process management (BPM) by having users complete challenges […]

Yeah, I know what you’re thinking: open source software…for Windows? That’s like vanilla for people who adore chocolate, like red for someone who loves blue, like – well, you get the idea. It’s a bit of a strange mix, a true odd couple, a straight-up dirty martini. But actually, not really. Open source developers have […]

Can companies make money by selling a product customers can get for free? Absolutely, yes. According to IDC, organizations spent $1.8 billion on stand-alone open source software in 2006, and IDC projects that total revenues in this market will reach $5.8 billion by 2011. Eager to get in on that action, a number of software […]

One of the great things about Firefoxis the tremendous number of add-ons that can help you become more efficient, more productive, and more of an all-around fantastic human being. But one of the even betterthings about Firefox is the tremendous number of add-ons that encourage creativity, laziness, and the joy of daily time wasting. If […]

Are open source network security tools really as secure as those available for sale? Yes, say a growing number of enterprises implementing open source security tools. While some are understandably hesitant to employ solutions that are openly available to hackers and users alike, many organizations are finding that open source tools not only cost less […]