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Royalty Free Open Standards Consultation

24-04
Irenie White
The UK government is currently consulting on the use of Open Standards and Open Source as an alternative for proprietary software. The proposed policy is being attacked by the large corporations who dominate the market of UK public sector IT and want to ensure government policy does not undermine...

Open Source Drives Software Innovation

11-04
Irenie White
credativ is one of the partners carrying out the 2012 Future of Open Source Survey The goal is to reach 1,000 respondents, so if you're passionate about Open Source, please fill it in. Your help is extremely important to the success of this year's survey. The following blog post was originally...

Compendium of Spotify on Linux Tips

02-01
Joseph Conway
Getting Spotify to work nicely on Linux Note: the Linux Spotify client will only work with a premium Spotify account . I spoke at the NYC PostgreSQL Users' Group meeting in December, and while there someone mentioned that Spotify is a great music service (and that they are using PostgreSQL!). So I...

[TIP] OpenERP - Making searching easier

30-11
Irenie White
OpenERP is increasingly becoming a serious contender in the ERP market, as its features and usability improve. This tip explains how its flexible views provide ways to save time retrieving the data you want. You can search for the exact data you are interested in by just filling out the necessary...

Careers update - credativ UK

23-09
Irenie White
This month, credativ is pleased to welcome two new members of staff to the team in Rugby; as a leading specialist in Linux and Free Software, we are expanding in order to accommodate the growing demand for our services. At credativ we invest in our employees - their growth and development is...

Local Linux User Group brings Software Freedom Day to Rugby

23-09
Irenie White
Saturday 17th September - credativ employees were among the volunteers of Rugby Linux Users Group (LUG) who held an open day at The Benn Partnership Centre in Rugby to promote Free Software to the local community. Software Freedom Day is celebrated in over 100 countries worldwide; Linux User Groups...

OpenERP functionality development for Made.com: A Case Study

19-07
Irenie White
Rugby, UK - 19 July 2011 credativ have been helping clients to benefit from OpenERP for 3 years now. During this time we have made 10 deployments from our UK office, including customising and writing additional accounting, invoicing, VAT, and reporting modules for specific client requests, many of...

credativ and OpenERP Partner to Take on Proprietary ERP Giants

07-06
Irenie White
Rugby, UK - 6 June 2011 credativ Ltd, the UK branch of the largest independent provider of Open Source consultancy in Europe, today announced that it is partnering with OpenERP in a move aimed at increasing OpenERP’s share of the UK enterprise resource planning market (ERP). Chris Halls, MD,...

[Tip] Configuring SSH Jumphosts

16-05
Roland Wolters
The System Administrator will often come across a situation where an SSH connection to Host B is only possible by making a detour via SHH to Host A: client -> ssh A -> ssh B To shorten this two-step process, an entry can be made in the ~/.ssh/config of Host A as "Jumphost", to ensure that...

Changing Windows Internet Shortcut (*.url) files into GNOME desktop files

13-02
Joseph Conway
Recursively finding Windows Internet Shortcut (*.url) files and changing them into GNOME desktop files Over the past few days I have finally converted my wife's computer from WinXP to Linux (Ubuntu 10.10). One of the many fine points of the negotiation leading to this was that I needed to preserve...