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Shared Calendars: Thunderbird, Lightning and DAViCal

We've been looking around for a good Open Source shared calendaring solution for a few years now.

What "IP" Really Means: Intellectual Monopoly

Glen Moody has written an article that really resonates with me - it distills the rather bullet-proof

Advice for IT Graduates

Over the years, we've had lots of graduates (both young and old) turn up at our door asking for work as software developers or system administrators.

Accounting and Payroll systems on Linux

Egressive has long been using an Open Source accounting package.

Asterisk and open source hardware replaces an aging analogue PBX

Egressive has installed a new PBX on one of our customer sites. The PBX runs an open source software product called Asterisk, which provides full PBX functionality including

Open Source, the next generation at NZCSRSC08

On Wednesday, 16 April, I had the honour of giving the keynote talk to the NZ Computer Science Research Students' Conference at the

The Benefits of Open Source CMSs

Since 2005 when Egressive chose to adopt Drupal as our primary web application development platform, open source Content Management Systems (CMSs) have gone from strength to strength.