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Comments Of The Initiative For Software Choice (ISC) For Consideration By The Ministry Of Information Industry And The Ministry Of Finance
White Papers On November 8th 2004, the Ministry of Finance (MOF), in cooperation with the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) of the Government of the People's Republic of China published a document titled "Implementation Rules of Government Software...
[July 14, 2005, 0:00]
Group Urges Limits On Open Source
News The Initiative for Software Choice, which counts Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Intel among its backers, said in comments filed on Tuesday that the department should "avoid crafting needless and potentially detrimental IT policy to promote the use...
[November 28, 2002, 7:25]
MS-backed Group Lobbies Against Government Open Source
News The Initiative for Software Choice, which launched quietly in early May, is chaired by an industry body called the Computer Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), but its biggest software industry backer is Microsoft.
[August 13, 2002, 12:43]
Government Bodies 'embracing Open Source'
News Lobbying groups such as the Initiative for Software Choice -- funded by Microsoft and others -- argue strongly against policies to require or favour open-source software. Such policies "weaken the overall information technology marketplace, biasing...
[September 3, 2004, 10:55]
US Group Takes Open Source Fight Abroad
News US-based lobby group the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC) is escalating its efforts to stymie the progress of legislation promoting the use of open-source software in government departments in Australia.
[July 16, 2003, 9:49]
OSS Through Java Initiative: A New Breed Of OSS Solutions
White Papers The OSS through Java Initiative - a group of leading hardware, software and systems integrator vendors - is the only entity with the proven ability to develop, test and publish a suite of inter-OSS application program interfaces (APIs).
[November 2, 2005, 23:00]
Architectural Evaluation Of Collaborative Agent-Based Systems
White Papers Very broadly, agents may be thought of as software entities that have the ability to undertake action autonomously in their particular embedded environment, according to a typically general set of requests or desired goals, and that are able to...
[January 8, 2004, 23:00]
NPfIT Initiative Offers GPs Greater Choice Of Tech
News Eight software companies are to be awarded contracts by NHS Connecting for Health as part of an initiative to offer GPs a greater choice of clinical tech. The eight contracts will be awarded over the next fortnight, and represent the first...
[August 1, 2007, 9:01]
Aussie Agencies Accused Of Locking Out Open Source
News Both bills attracted the attention of a US software industry lobby group, which claims to be backed by developers working in both proprietary and open-source fields, the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC).
[September 19, 2003, 9:30]
SuSE Aims Linux At Enterprise Desktops
News Germany's SuSE Linux on Monday will launch new software and a marketing initiative that aim to make it easy for large organisations to migrate their desktops to the Linux operating system. At the centre of the initiative is a new desktop version of...
[June 9, 2003, 7:33]
'Default' Open-source Licensing Plans Under Fire
News Essentially, if this goes ahead, it will force public-sector bodies into using software that is not appropriate for them," said the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC), in a statement. The ISC is an initiative of industry association CompTIA...
[March 11, 2004, 15:40]
Aussie Govt To See Windows Source Code
News The agreement falls within Microsoft's global Government Security Programme, an initiative announced earlier this year to address government concerns about the transparency and security of the operating system.
[August 14, 2003, 10:20]
Old Code In Windows Is Security Threat
News Microsoft will more quickly retire old code in its Windows operating system and other software as a result of the company's four-month-old "trustworthy computing" initiative, the company's lead bug basher said in an interview.
[June 10, 2002, 9:34]
MS Puts Coders On Bug Alert
News As part of the security initiative, every manager has to justify not only the group's programming decisions, but how the software is configured as a component of Windows. Adding security to Visual Studio.Net is central to Microsoft's Trustworthy...
[February 8, 2002, 9:36]
Lawsuit Opens New Can Of Worms For Microsoft
News In January 2001, Microsoft kicked off its Trustworthy Computing Initiative, a companywide move to increase the security of its products, better handle customer privacy, and repair the giant's tarnished image in those areas.
[October 7, 2003, 11:50]
BEA And Sun Do OS, Server Software Deal
News This initiative strengthens our relationship and underscores our commitment to customers to increase choice and reduce cost and time to deployment," Stuart Wells, senior vice president at Sun's market development organisation, said in a statement.
[December 16, 2002, 16:06]
Linux Groomed For Government Role
News If successful, the initiative would lead to a single, standard version of Linux acceptable to the government and hence make it easier for Linux companies to compete against Microsoft and other large software makers.
[August 16, 2002, 13:24]
Akamai Moves Into Application Hosting
News Akamai and IBM announced the service at an analyst briefing in New York, where Big Blue is set to outline plans for its ongoing on-demand initiative. The company declined to say when it might launch that initiative.
[May 2, 2003, 8:33]
Sun Submits Software Licence To Open Source Initiative
News Open Source Initiative president Eric Raymond declined to comment yet on whether the licence meets those criteria. But if the Open Source Initiative approves the licence, the CDDL will join a list that already includes dozens of licences.
[December 3, 2004, 7:45]
Open Source InfoCard Rival Gets Heavyweight Support
News The initiative also includes the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and Parity Communications, a company developing "social commerce" software that has been operating in stealth mode.
[February 27, 2006, 15:50]
