NW 480 - Emerging Technologies Text: "Open Source: The Unauthorized White Papers" by Donald K. Rosenberg Chapter 1 - The Origins of Open Source Software: International Data Corporation The Jargon File Writings of Eric Raymond Copyleft and the Religious Wars of the 21st Century The Free Software Foundation Open Source Research Team and Metalab Linux International Slashdot Linux Weekly News Linux World LinuxToday The Open Source Initiative Why The Penguin? Chapter 2 - Commercializing Open Source Software: Red Hat Wealth Monitor Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock Chapter 3 - Benefits of Open Source in Your Business Marketshare, Inc. Shop Microsoft site International Data Corporation Online Directory of Linux Integrators VMware, Inc. Chapter 4 - Available Products and More to Come ApplixWare Office Palm Desktop for ApplixWare Corel Office 2000 Appgen Business Software GNUCash StarOffice SmartWare 2000 GoldMedal AbiSuite GNOME Office Helix Code The Bonobo Project KOffice The WINE Project KDE Wish List Page Scientific Applications on Linux Chapter 5 - Linux vs. Windows Netcraft Web Server Survey Linux Mall Cheap Bytes Gartner Group's DataPro Information Services NT vs. Linux (the Kirch paper) Microsoft's Linux Myths Page The Halloween Documents MIT Kerberos Page Chapter 6 - The GNU GPL and the Open Source Definition U.S. Copyright Office Debian Free Software Guidelines Chapter 7 - Complications of Open Source Licensing (No URLs for this chapter) Chapter 8 - The Drive Toward the Mainframe Linux Enterprise Computing DIstributed.net CS Communication & Systemes Electronic Frontier Foundation Stone Soup Computer Beowulf National Institutes of Health Top 500 Fastest Supercomputers Incyte Genomics, Inc. Terra Soft Solutions Black Lab Linux Alpha Linux Clusters from Compaq Mission Critical Linux The IA-64 Linux Project NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory Myricom High Performance Technologies High-Availability.com Open Source High-Availability Linux The Linux Virtual Server Project IBM mainframe port of Linux D.H. Brown Associates Chapter 9 - The Secret Battlefield: Embedded Systems European Synchrotron Radiation Facility RTLinux Linux on a Floppy The Linux Router Project Lineo Zentropix MontaVIst Software Lynx Real-Time Systems 3iLinux picoBSD TREMS RTMX/OS e/BSD Guide to OEM Software Licensing Red Hat eCos Public License Linux Real TimeWorkshop Technologic, Inc. Cobalt Whistle Systems Advisory Group Enterprises Transmeta   Chap. 10 - The Platform: Software and Hardware Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD FreeBSD Mall Berkeley Software Design Walnut Creek FTP downloads Cheap Bytes Linux Mall NECTEC Thai Linux Working Group Kondara MNU/Linux Kevin Fenzi's Red Hat Uber Distribution (KRUD) Cygnus Solutions Precision Insight SourceXchange Cosource Cyclades Corporation Cosmos Engineering Company Cobalt Microserver VA Linux Systems Penguin Computing Atipa Linux Solutions Tuxtops Bynari Systems LinuxCare Mission Critical Linux Linux Professional Institute Linux International SAIR   Class Notes Course Syllabus Chapter 1 Notes Chapter 2 Notes Week 1 Assignment Chapter 3 Notes Week 2 Assignment Chapter 4 Notes Chapter 5 Notes Week 3 Assignment Chapter 6 Notes Chapter 7 Notes Week 4 Assignment Chapter 8 Notes Chapter 9 Notes Week 5 Assignment Chapter 10 Notes Week 6 Assignment Chapter 11 Notes Chapter 12 Notes Week 7 Assignment Chapter 13 Notes Chapter 14 Notes Week 8 Assignment DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this site are those of the author and are not necessarily those of his employer, Westwood Technical College or its affilliates. This material is intended to supplement the class lectures and text and is not required to complete the course. You can e-mail me here.