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Cabinet Office: no lobby influence on open standards

...The government has launched a consultation on the definition of 'open standards' for government IT, while denying claims that lobbying from proprietary software... Read more

9 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

BSA: Open standards will 'increase e-government costs

...see its IT costs rise because it has chosen to get behind open standards, the Business Software Alliance has argued. The BSA has reacted strongly... Read more

1 March, 2011 by David Meyer

OpenStack cloud gets Bexar release and backers

...OpenStack has delivered the second major release of its open-source and open-standards cloud platform, adding experimental compatibility via middleware for Amazon's storage... Read more

4 February, 2011 by Jack Clark

OpenStack platform has first major release, named Austin

The open-standards and open-source cloud project OpenStack has released Austin, the first... Read more

21 October, 2010 by Jack Clark

Virgin complains to Ofcom over openness in Canvas

...Media has made a formal complaint to Ofcom about a lack of open standards in Project Canvas, a scheme to create a multichannel, web-connected... Read more

3 August, 2010 by David Meyer

Smart-meter makers embark on common standards push

...Elster, Landis+Gyr and Secure said on Thursday that they will use open standards and available specifications for smart meter technologies to "dramatically accelerate the... Read more

30 July, 2010 by David Meyer

Cisco appeals Microsoft-Skype deal over lock-in fears

...merger was formalised just days later. However, Cisco said on Wednesday that open standards should have been a condition of the Commission's regulatory go... Read more

16 February, 2012 by David Meyer

DWP to run open-source trials

...software.The coalition government has appeared keen to promote increased use of open standards and open-source software. A year ago Cabinet Office minister Francis... Read more

7 December, 2011 by Gill Hitchcock

Government: Half of IT spending to go on cloud

...the longer term it aims for standardisation, with the mandatory use of open standards and commodity procurement.Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said: "This government... Read more

21 October, 2011 by Mark Say

Government lays out cloud and open-source IT strategy

...costs, duplication and waste, deliver common infrastructure based on a series of open standards, drive interoperability, and support the ongoing work of digital by default... Read more

30 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner
The cloud: lessons from history

The cloud: lessons from history

...from yesterday's 'grid computing' or Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the open standards-based web and the flexibility afforded by modern virtualisation technology. Rupert... Read more

8 October, 2010 by Staff

Citrix acquires VMLogix, mulls open strategy

...and private cloud produicts, as part of a wider strategy for pushing open standards and easier management Read more

31 August, 2010 by Jack Clark
Canonical: The cloud shift is developer-led

Canonical: The cloud shift is developer-led

...there will be great technology involved. What we want to see is open standards and open source — no company controls the technology. This is interesting... Read more

27 August, 2010 by Jack Clark

Microsoft link delays UK open standards consultation

The Government has had to extend its consultation on defining open standards and how they can be used in its IT, after a... Read more

27 April, 2012

Lobbyists clash over open standards in Europe

The Free Software Foundation Europe has launched a strong defence of open standards, after the Business Software Alliance tried to tell the European Commission... Read more

18 October, 2010

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