Beginning C 2005 Databases or Open Source

Beginning C# 2005 Databases

Author: Karli Watson

• Providing beginners with the basics of databases, database design, and SQL programming, this book shows novice programmers how to use C# and ADO.NET to manipulate data in databases

• Includes hands-on examples, helpful tips, and real-world scenarios on accessing data from Windows applications, ASP.NET applications, and Web Services

• The SQL provider for accessing SQL Server databases, ADO.NET, and the new .NET 2.0 features

• Covers the fundamentals of accessing and manipulating data while giving a solid understanding of relational database design

• Topics covered include modifying data, custom data binding, working with disconnected data, and much more

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Open Source: Technology and Policy

Author: Fadi P Deek

The open source movement is a worldwide effort to promote an open style of software development more aligned with the accepted intellectual style of science than the proprietary modes of invention that have been characteristic of modern business. The idea is to keep the scientific advances created by software development openly available for everyone to use, understand, and improve.The very process of open source creation is highly transparent. This book addresses prominent projects in the open source movement, along with its enabling technologies, social characteristics, legal issues, business venues, and public and educational roles.

Table of Contents:

Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction     1
Why Open Source     2
Preview     11
Open Source - Internet Applications, Platforms, and Technologies
Open Source Internet Application Projects     21
The WWW and the Apache Web Server     23
The Browsers     37
Fetchmail     50
The Dual License Business Model     61
The P's in LAMP     70
BitTorrent     77
BIND     78
The Open Source Platform     80
Operating Systems     81
Windowing Systems and Desktops     99
GIMP     111
Technologies Underlying Open Source Development     119
Overview of CVS     120
CVS Commands     124
Other Version Control Systems     143
Open Source Software Development Hosting Facilities and Directories     151
Social, Psychological, Legal, and Economic Aspects of Open Source
Demographics, Sociology, and Psychology of Open Source Development     159
Scale of Open Source Development     160
Demographics and Statistical Profile of Participants     162
Motivation of Participants     164
Group Size and Communication     166
Social Psychology and Open Source     168
Cognitive Psychology and Open Source     181
Group Problem Solving and Productivity     190
Process Gains and Losses in Groups     197
The Collaborative Medium     206
Legal Issues in Open Source     222
Copyrights     223
Patents     228
Contracts and Licenses     232
Proprietary Licenses and Trade Secrets     236
OSI - The Open Source Initiative     243
The GPL and Related Issues     250
The Economics of Open Source     265
Standard Economic Effects     266
Open Source Business Models     272
Open Source and Commoditization     281
Economic Motivations for Participation     285
Free Software: The Movement, the Public Sector, and the Future
The GNU Project     297
The GNU Project     297
The Free Software Foundation     302
Open Source in the Public Sector     309
Open Source in Government and Globally     310
Open Source in Education     316
The Future of the Open Source Movement     325
Glossary      336
Subject Index     351
Author Index     366