Thursday, April 19, 2007
Bloggers Call for Open Source Lobbyists & Advocacy
Bloggers Call for Open Source Lobbyists & Advocacy
Via a post by Lora Bentley @ IT Business Edge, April 18, 2007
A Florida legislator’s efforts to insert pro-open source/open standards language into a bill that would create an enterprise information technology office in the state’s executive branch were foiled by lobbyists from Microsoft, according to Linux.com.
Rep. Ed Homan added text to Senate Bill 1974 that advocated the state’s adoption and implementation of systems that support open formats. Shortly after, it appears Microsoft’s men arrived at the Florida Legislature to convince its members that the addition to the bill was not a good idea.
Linux.com has now urged its readers to take up the cause of open source in Florida. So has ZDNet Dana Blankenhorn in a post.
Via a post by Lora Bentley @ IT Business Edge, April 18, 2007
A Florida legislator’s efforts to insert pro-open source/open standards language into a bill that would create an enterprise information technology office in the state’s executive branch were foiled by lobbyists from Microsoft, according to Linux.com.
Rep. Ed Homan added text to Senate Bill 1974 that advocated the state’s adoption and implementation of systems that support open formats. Shortly after, it appears Microsoft’s men arrived at the Florida Legislature to convince its members that the addition to the bill was not a good idea.
Linux.com has now urged its readers to take up the cause of open source in Florida. So has ZDNet Dana Blankenhorn in a post.
Labels: advocacy, microsoft, problems, usa
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Microsoft: Never Really Helping Open source
Microsoft: Never Really Helping Open source
16 April 2007, SDA India
It is Microsoft once again against open source! (So what's new?). This time, it is over their ClearType technology. The reason why the fonts are better in Windows as compared to Linux is the ClearType technology that Windows uses. Doug Schaefer feels that Microsoft is never going to extend the patent protection on ClearType to all of the Linux community, and that in the fuzz between ClearType and FreeType, and between open source and software patents, it is the user who pays the price.
Read this brief news item @ SDA India
16 April 2007, SDA India
It is Microsoft once again against open source! (So what's new?). This time, it is over their ClearType technology. The reason why the fonts are better in Windows as compared to Linux is the ClearType technology that Windows uses. Doug Schaefer feels that Microsoft is never going to extend the patent protection on ClearType to all of the Linux community, and that in the fuzz between ClearType and FreeType, and between open source and software patents, it is the user who pays the price.
Read this brief news item @ SDA India
Labels: microsoft, patents, problems
Monday, April 2, 2007
Open source e-mail solutions attracting current Exchange customers
Open source e-mail solutions attracting current Exchange customers
By Matt Mondok | Published: March 27, 2007
An upcoming report by the Yankee Group warns that Microsoft Exchange may lose around 23 percent of its customers to open source mail solutions in the next year and a half. The report claims that companies will move to an open-source mail solution because decision makers believe that open source is both easier to manage and cost-effective.
Source of the above note: Ars Technical article here
By Matt Mondok | Published: March 27, 2007
An upcoming report by the Yankee Group warns that Microsoft Exchange may lose around 23 percent of its customers to open source mail solutions in the next year and a half. The report claims that companies will move to an open-source mail solution because decision makers believe that open source is both easier to manage and cost-effective.
Source of the above note: Ars Technical article here
Labels: email, microsoft, trends
Open Source, the only weapon against "planned obsolescence"
Open Source, the only weapon against "planned obsolescence"
By Fernando Cassia: 28 Mar 2007
The author of this article feels that "Planned Obsolescence" is sadly here to stay; but there's hope, only one: open source.
While, the planned obsolence has been perfected into a great art by companies such as Microsoft though in a somewhat stealthy manner, in the hardware world, things are much more evident. For instance, while most PDAs out there use a given "family" CPU that is more or less compatible between different versions, often the PDA manufacturer updates the OS when releasing a new model. The owners of the previous model are left with no choice but to dump their perfectly working PDA if they want to get the new OS.
The author thinks the answer to all this madness is simple: open source software.
Read the full post from here @ The Inquirer
By Fernando Cassia: 28 Mar 2007
The author of this article feels that "Planned Obsolescence" is sadly here to stay; but there's hope, only one: open source.
While, the planned obsolence has been perfected into a great art by companies such as Microsoft though in a somewhat stealthy manner, in the hardware world, things are much more evident. For instance, while most PDAs out there use a given "family" CPU that is more or less compatible between different versions, often the PDA manufacturer updates the OS when releasing a new model. The owners of the previous model are left with no choice but to dump their perfectly working PDA if they want to get the new OS.
The author thinks the answer to all this madness is simple: open source software.
Read the full post from here @ The Inquirer
Labels: analysis, hardware, microsoft
Open-Source Software Eye Business Intelligence, Analytics
Open-Source Software Firms Take Aim At BI
By Brian Womack, Investor's Business Daily
29 Mar 2007
Oracle put the spotlight on the business intelligence sector earlier this month when it announced plans to pay $3.3 billion for Hyperion Solutions...Oracle and others, including IBM and Microsoft see huge opportunities in business intelligence, analysts say.
Now open-source software makers, emboldened by the success of Linux, want a piece, says this article
Read the full news report from here @ Investor's Business Daily
By Brian Womack, Investor's Business Daily
29 Mar 2007
Oracle put the spotlight on the business intelligence sector earlier this month when it announced plans to pay $3.3 billion for Hyperion Solutions...Oracle and others, including IBM and Microsoft see huge opportunities in business intelligence, analysts say.
Now open-source software makers, emboldened by the success of Linux, want a piece, says this article
Read the full news report from here @ Investor's Business Daily
Labels: business-intelligence, ibm, microsoft, oracle
A New Dawn Rising For Open Documents?
A New Dawn Rising For Open Documents?
April 3, 2007
By Jacqueline Emigh
So far, the government document landscape in the US has been overwhelmingly dominated by three proprietary formats - .DOC (Microsoft's Word document), .PPT (Microsoft's PowerPoint), and .XLS (Microsoft's Excel spreadsheets).
With the filing of a new bill in Oregon, five US states have now taken legislative action around adopting open documents. Still, government agencies in the US lag way behind those in Europe in moving beyond Windows lock-in. In one big bright note, though, the ODF (OpenDocuments Format) Alliance--a one-year-old organization backed by Microsoft rivals such as IBM and Sun--seems to be spurring a lot of positive change, says this article.
Read the full article from here @ Datamation
April 3, 2007
By Jacqueline Emigh
So far, the government document landscape in the US has been overwhelmingly dominated by three proprietary formats - .DOC (Microsoft's Word document), .PPT (Microsoft's PowerPoint), and .XLS (Microsoft's Excel spreadsheets).
With the filing of a new bill in Oregon, five US states have now taken legislative action around adopting open documents. Still, government agencies in the US lag way behind those in Europe in moving beyond Windows lock-in. In one big bright note, though, the ODF (OpenDocuments Format) Alliance--a one-year-old organization backed by Microsoft rivals such as IBM and Sun--seems to be spurring a lot of positive change, says this article.
Read the full article from here @ Datamation
Labels: documents, government, ibm, microsoft, sun-microsystems, usa
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