Sheffield City Council is to lead a project to develop an open source, multimedia Customer Relationship Management solution, aimed at a variety of local government agencies across Europe.
Also in the public sector, The Boston Globe reports on hearings by Massachusetts senators on the open document deployment.
From The Times:
So get ahead of the curve and log on to an open-source community. These are groups of enthusiasts who enjoy helping firms such as IBM, Nokia and Sun Microsystems create innovative software.
Well, at least you’re “ahead of the curve”.
The search giant has been splurging on some open source projects this week, or, as Forbes put it, twisting the knife on Microsoft.
First, they were fleshing the bones of early October’s announcement of a tie-in with Sun and OpenOffice, with an announcement that they’ll be hiring staff to work on OOo. The Times has […]
There’s still time to get in on the Wikipedia futurolgy raid, on until midnight tonight (31st October).
The ever delightful Forbes Magazine has a trio of articles about those damnable anarchists who make up the blogosphere, particularly that nasty Pamela Jones. The writer paints in rather broad colours - the entire blogosphere is out to besmirch somebody-or-other’s good name or trademark - and includes some handy advice for deployment in the event […]
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We blogged a story a couple of days back about the Novell / New Zealand deal, and some reaction from the National Business Review over there. Unfortunately I read the news story but failed to do more than skim the reaction piece; if I had I would have been shocked - shocked - by the […]
“It’s a big day for storage”, according to Laura Sanders of IBM, as Big Blue announces a several-megacorporation-strong development group to work on open source storage software, to some disarray and a little acrimony.
Important people have been ganging up on the ID cards bill in the last couple of days, with the Information Comissioner releasing a statement calling it “excessive and disproportionate” as well as “unwarranted and intrusive” - The Register, it seems, broadly agrees with the sentiments expressed. The house of Lords - currently being romanticised by […]
Last night’s Newsnight over on BBC 2 took a look at the Flock browser, the buzzword-tastic Web2.0 version of our mate Firefox. You can watch the article via the link above, read the text article written by the correspondent, or read some of the (fairly negative) feedback the article received.
No sheep puns were made during […]
The Mozilla Foundation’s Gervase Markham has had his second column published on The Times Online (you can find the first one here in case you missed it). This time he’s on the subject of Open Document, Massachussets and the legacy issue - stuff you might well already know about, but it’s probably more like news […]
You might remember that the OSDL launched a project to promote the development of embedded Linux for mobile devices, and now corporate big boys Motorola and Palm have signed up with the project.
Dubai-based corporate mouthpiece AME info has a re-hashed press release on a new Linux-based communications recorder (no, I don’t know what it is […]
The Free Standards Group has launched a project to standardise the look and feel of the Linux desktop across the different distros.
IT distributor Recton’s business manager says OSS is now ready for commercial use on the desktop, and a survey by Saugatuck Technology (as related by CNet) appears to show that businesses are listening, with […]
The Free Software Foundation finds itself in a rare situation - having something nice to say about Microsoft.
California’s San Jose Mercury has a combative on the “frightening” nature of a web fed by amateurs:
Silicon Valley has its share of would-be utopians. Along with others around the world, they are working overtime to build an online community where the Internet makes everyone equal.
But what if this movement ends up doing more harm than […]
From the Register:
Nearly half of European local government bodies are using open source software while nearly a third don’t know that they are using open source at all.
A Maastricht University survey of 12 counties has reportedly found 49 per cent using Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) while 70 per cent said they expect usage to increase.
In […]
You’ve probably heard about MySQL’s love-in with those nice people from SCO, the reaction to which has been, to say the least, interested.
Now a few outlets have been picking up on the reaction, including Forbes Magazine, never one to miss a chance to beat up on the open source community with fanaticism bordering on that […]
It’s been a busy couple of days for new software releases.
OpenOffice.org has unleashed its third release candidate for v2.0, but most of the press stories have focused on the fact that it managed to miss out on an anniversary release because of a bug in its image rendering module.
The open source Business Intelligence (BI) software […]
We posted a story a couple of days back - yet another warning about the “inevitability” of a Linux pandemic - and it seems that we’re not the only one’s to notice this scattergun, rinse-and-repeat approach from security vendors.
Just in case you - like several of the posters on Newsforge - thought that was in […]
The OSDL has decided that the next front in their campaign is to be the software that powers your mobile phone, and it today launching the Mobile Linux Initiative to promote the development of Linux for the small screen. There’s more at Phone Mag and ZDNets UK and US.
If you fancy go to listen to […]
The Guardian has a big interview with Brazilian music legend Gilberto Gil where he talks about… er, open source software. He is currently serving as Minister of Culture (or counter-Culture, as the headline would have it) in his home country and is interested in overcoming poverty through the free sharing of ideas.
There’s only one thing […]