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'The Future Is Open Source'
News A panel of high-profile industry players weighed in Thursday on whether the world will ultimately turn to open source as a means for solving its software needs, with the overriding view being "yes". In the next five to 10 years, the open source...
[July 22, 2005, 8:50]
Sun: Open Source Is About Self-interest
Talkback We're confident that the quotes are accurate, and don't believe that the story misinterprets his conference speech. Hi John, Of course Colin was in the room. I've seen Simon's response to the piece. Thanks,
[June 29, 2006, 14:58]
Mandatory Open Source 'too Risky' For Australia
News Christopher Pearce, the Liberal member of parliament for Aston, made the remarks to the AUUG (Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group) conference in Melbourne last week on behalf of the federal minister for information technology...
[September 6, 2004, 11:20]
OpenForum Berates UK Record On Open Source
News The UK is lagging in the use of open source, even though it is now established as the best way to produce and consume software, said speakers at the Open Source Forum, sponsored by Red Hat and its partners, in London.
[May 14, 2008, 11:48]
Open Source Projects: Why It Pays To Keep Quiet
News Speaking at an OASIS conference in London, Erwin Tenhumberg, a product marketing manager at Sun's Client Systems Group said that organisations are reluctant to talk about migrations to open source because they "do not want to jeopardise their...
[November 25, 2005, 14:15]
Open-source Group Aims At Interoperability
News The companies plan to announce the group's formation on Wednesday at the Open Solutions Summit, an open-source conference in New York. A group of open-source software companies has banded together to try to ensure their products work well with one...
[February 14, 2007, 8:27]
Open Source Firms 'to Be Consumed By Wave Of Consolidation'
News But those rivals are too immature to make it, said Peter Graf, SAP's executive vice-president of marketing, during a speech at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco. A wave of consolidation is sweeping the IT industry, and many open...
[February 16, 2006, 9:05]
Open-source Group Lobbies For Members
News Organisers of the Open Source And Industry Alliance (OSAIA) dropped by the LinuxWorld conference on Tuesday, appealing to attendees to join and contribute to the group, which is designed to fight efforts by proprietary software makers to quash...
[August 7, 2003, 11:00]
Open Source ERP Firm Gets New Boss
News Compiere aids in support and shares revenue with those partners, Janke said in an interview at the Open Source Business Conference earlier this month. Compiere, a small company that develops open source ERP software to help customers manage finance...
[February 28, 2006, 9:30]
Jon Hall: Open Source Should Be Protected From 'looters'
News The conference is tapping into growing interest in Linux and open-source software in the UK, where the government has committed to expanding the role of open source in the public sector, and some public authorities have already purchased...
[June 24, 2003, 11:45]
Study: Open, Closed Source Equally Secure
News Proprietary programs should mathematically be as secure as those developed under the open-source model, a Cambridge University researcher argued in a paper presented Thursday at a technical conference in Toulouse, France.
[June 21, 2002, 8:57]
Open Source Is 'below The Radar' Of Local Government
News Open source is below the radar of senior decision makers," said Bax, speaking at a public sector conference session at the LinuxWorld Expo in London on Thursday. Alex Bax, a senior policy officer at the Greater London Authority (GLA) led by London...
[October 8, 2004, 14:00]
Open Source's New Weapon: The Law?
News Programmers and other open-source fans plan to march Thursday in San Francisco during the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo to promote their argument that Linux and other open-source projects can be used to prevent abuses by proprietary software...
[August 12, 2002, 8:29]
Open-source Eclipse Unveils Ajax Projects
News The Ajax projects, announced at the annual EclipseCon conference, are meant to make a wider number of tools available for JavaScript programming — used to make Ajax applications — as well as other so-called dynamic, or scripting, languages.
[March 8, 2007, 8:41]
Open Source 'split By Digital Divide'
News Scott McNeil, the general manager of the open computing initiative at UNU's International Institute for Software Technology, speaking at a UNU conference on free software in New York on Thursday, said that as few developers in open source projects...
[March 17, 2006, 17:10]
Open Source Rival Attacks 'terrible' Linux
News It is [always] IBM or Sun or HP open source," asserted Villasante, speaking at a debate on open source innovation at the Holland Open Software Conference in Amsterdam. Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of the open source operating...
[June 17, 2005, 13:00]
Open-source Experts Deride SCO's 'evidence'
News The ruckus erupted when SCO showed its "smoking gun" to delegates at its conference in Las Vegas yesterday. SCO's display of code it alleges was copied into the Linux kernel by IBM -- a piece of evidence critical to its US$3bn lawsuit against Big...
[August 20, 2003, 9:00]
Open Source 'is Free Like A Puppy Is Free' Says Sun Boss
News Sun chief executive Scott McNealy was on scathing form this week at a conference to extol the virtues of green IT and sustainable computing. Speaking at the Executive Forum event just outside Glasgow, Scotland, McNealy was his typically...
[June 8, 2005, 17:40]
Open Source: Developing Markets And Anti-Americanism
News The state of Kerala is using open source software for "many" of its e-Government initiatives, Ajay Kumar, the secretary to the Keralan government said in a conference speech. Deep support — fixing software bugs, customising it to user requirements...
[November 14, 2005, 11:00]
Open Source: KDE Hits Back At GNOME
News On August 15, a dozen companies staged a news conference at LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose, California, to announce the creation of the Gnome Foundation. Among the backers were open-source software companies such as Eazel, Helix Code, Red Hat...
[September 11, 2000, 8:22]
