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Open Source and Cloud Computing

http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/07/open-source-and-cloud-computing.html

Tim O'Reilly: I've been worried for some years that the open source movement might fall prey to the problem that Kim Stanley Robinson so incisively captured in Green Mars: 'History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.' Innovators are left behind, as the world they've changed picks up on their ideas, runs with them, and takes them in unexpected directions. In essays like The Open Source Paradigm Shift and What is Web 2.0?, I argued that the success of the internet as a non-proprietary platform built largely on commodity open source software could lead to a new kind of proprietary lock-in in the cloud. What good are free and open source licenses, all based on the act of software distribution, when software is no longer distributed but merely performed on the global network stage? How can we preserve freedom to innovate when the competitive advantage of online players comes from massive databases created via user contribution, which literally get better the more people use them, raising seemingly insuperable barriers to new competition?
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How to Switch from Microsoft Word to OpenOffice Writer

http://www.fanaticattack.com/2008/switching-office-suites-from-microsoft-office-to-openofficeorg.html

How to set up OpenOffice.org to work how you want it with templates and clip art, configurations, shortcuts, and more. Solveig Haugland, February 2008
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The Ignorance of Crowds

http://www.strategy-business.com/press/enewsarticle/enews053107?pg=all

By Nicholas G. Carr: The open source model can play an important role in innovation, but know its limitations. Ten years ago, on May 22, 1997, a little-known software programmer from Pennsylvania named Eric Raymond presented a paper at a technology conference in Würzburg, Germany. Titled 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar,' the paper caused an immediate stir, and its renown has only grown in the years since. It is now widely considered one of the seminal documents in the history of the software industry.
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Google announces hosting for open source projects

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/27/1833251

Google is scheduled to announce hosting for open source projects on Google Code today during Greg Stein's talk at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON).
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Free and Open Source Software at the United Nations

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/07/20/un_and_foss.html

Advances in technology have revolutionized the way people live, learn and work, but these benefits have not spread around the world evenly. A digital divide exists between communities in their access to computers, the Internet, and other technologies. The United Nations is aware of the importance of including technology development as part of a larger effort to bridge this global digital divide. This article looks at how various United Nations agencies use free and open source software to meet the goal of putting technology at the service of people around the world.
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Croatian government adopts free software policy

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33120

The Croatian government has decided to adopt a free software policy and move entirely to Open Source. According to a document with the catchy title "Directions for Development and Use of Open Source Code Computer Programmes in Bodies and Institutions of State Administration" the Government says it needs to develop, prepare and procure open-source software.
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Four Big Ideas About Open Source

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/07/four_big_ideas_about_open_sour.html

"In my O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing next week at OSCON, I'm focusing on four big ideas about open source: " 1. The architecture of participation beyond software. 2. Asymmetric Competition. 3. How Software As a Service Changes The Points of Business Leverage. 4. Open Data.
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DoD report recommends move to open software and standards

http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=89668DCF-D287-48E3-93F0-A0AB7DED24F7

The use of open source and open standards at the US Department of Defense is in the national interest and the interest of national security, according to a report from the DoD's Advanced Systems and Concepts office.
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IBM Releases Autonomic Software to Open Source

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1976378,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000613

IBM on June 14 said that it has released software to the Apache Open Source Foundation designed to help automate the detection and remediation application or transaction problems in the data center. The software, implemented at IBM as a part of both its autonomic computing initiative and contribution to the Web Services Distributed Management standard, provides "a framework for building WSDM interfaces into people's devices—applications, servers or storage," said Scott Handy, worldwide vice president of Linux and open source for IBM in Somers, N.Y.
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Munich Linux 'a reality'

http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=6369&pagtype=all

The City of Munich has insisted it is on track with its massive Linux migration, in the face of claims in the German Senate that the project seemed to have failed before it ever got off the ground.
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Web Apps Get New Open Source App Server

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189700068

A new open source application server is available for download from WSO2 Inc., a little known but highly regarded Sri Lankan firm of open source developers. It's Tungsten 1.0 application server is designed to handle Ajax and other scripting based applications more efficiently. The WSO2 stands for Web Services Oxygenation, perhaps an alchemist's way of saying it's time to activate a new generation of Web applications. Nevertheless, WSO2 is bringing a fresh set of concepts and standards to the notion of an application server, software that gives a Web site its ability to scale across many users. Application servers available today, such as IBM WebSphere, BEA Systems WebLogic, and Red Hat's JBoss, are written in Java and geared to run Java applications. WSO2's Tungsten 1.0 comes in both Java and C versions, with the latter offering some advantages when it comes to dealing with Web technologies. Many applications today are being written in the popular PHP scripting language, which itself is based on C, points out Sanjiva Weerawarana, a former IBM Web services developer who is CEO of WSO2. Tungsten is meant to process incoming XML messages and connect them to back-end SAP or other applications. "We take the XML payload and context and pass it to the application directly" without intermediate parsers or processing, says Weerawarana. Tungsten is designed to be a lighter weight application server, geared to emerging Web standards. It supports Web Services Description Language, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security, WS-Addressing, MTOM, XOP, SOAP, and other standards, Tungsten works as an efficient distributor of XML and Javascript to browsers, as used in Ajax applications, Weerawarana says.
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UNDP-APDIP International Open Source Network

http://www.iosn.net/

The International Open Source Network an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Asia Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) and supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada.
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Sun offers Jini to open source community

http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/40454.html

Sun Microsystems Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif., is hoping to move its Jini distributed computing technology to a open source development community, according to an e-mail one member of the Sun Jini developer team posted on the Jini mailing list last week.
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Developing Evaluation Criteria for Open Source Solutions

http://www.ebizq.net/hot_topics/int_sbp/features/6789.html

By Brenda M. Michelson, Sr. VP and Sr. Consultant, Patricia Seybold Group
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UBL: Another Opportunity for FOSS in the Enterprise

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8254

To know more about the UBL standard and how FOSS programmers may add support for it in office applications, starting with OpenOffice.org, Linux Journal talked to Jon Bosak, chairman of the UBL Technical Committee, and Lars Oppermann, software engineer for the framework and XML projects in StarOffice/OpenOffice.org. By Marco Fioretti on April 21, 2005
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Open Source and the Enterprise: Enterprise Adoption

http://www.softwaregarden.com/cgi-bin/oss-sig/wiki.pl?EnterpriseMeetingDec2005

Recordings from a public meeting. The meeting had two parts. The first was a presentation by Nicholas Gall, VP and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner Research. He talked about OSS, the current state, and trends. It was a preview of a talk to be given at Gartner's Summit the following week. The second part covered user experiences, with presentations by Julie Atkins, Director of IT Operations and Info Security of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and Michael Askew and Charles Pickelhaupt of Fidelity Investments' Center for Applied Technology.
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Paris accelerates move to open source

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1941298570;fp;16;fpid;0

The city of Paris is accelerating its move to free and open-source software as part of a strategy to reduce its dependence on suppliers. It plans to replace more of its server software with free and open-source alternatives, and to install open-source applications on desktops. Computerworld 21/11/2005
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Open Invention Network

http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/

Open Invention Network (OIN), a company that has and will acquire patents and offer them royalty-free to promote Linux and spur innovation globally, was launched today with financial support from IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat, and Sony.(November 10, 2005) -
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Europe and the US philosophically divided on open source?

http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020472,39235707,00.htm

Open Source in Government: Some governments have embraced the potential of open source, while others seem culturally opposed to the whole concept. ZDNet UK Insight.
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French opt for laissez-faire Linux

http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020472,39236214,00.htm

The French tax agency claims that upgrading its 80,000 desktops to Office XP would cost €29.5m, but switching to OpenOffice.org only €200,000. ZDNet UK Insight. Nov 9, 2005.
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Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/epolicy/

The Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems: a user-friendly guide for policymakers and technologists offerings tools for understanding, creating, and sustaining open information and communication technologies ecosystems. This is where we introduce the term openization.
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The Case for Linux

http://www.larstan.net/linux.htm

Linux: Government Takes the Open Road. The Issues that Drive Federal Sector Computing Systems to Adopt Open Source Linux. Report by Larstan Business Reports, August 2005.
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Business Readiness Rating

http://www.openbrr.org/

A Proposed Open Standard to Facilitate Assessment and Adoption of Open Source Software
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Web Services Specs Meet Open Source

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1838419,00.asp

As the Apache Software Foundation, Microsoft Corp. and IBM sort out licensing issues around making the WS-Security specification open-source-friendly, the issue becomes something of a precedent for how Web services specifications will evolve in the open-source world.
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