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[News] Open Source Reaches Top-tier Company, Improves Further, and Reaches New World Destinations

  • Subject: [News] Open Source Reaches Top-tier Company, Improves Further, and Reaches New World Destinations
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:02:26 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Leading Print Management Company Picks Alfresco for Fortune 1000 Publishing
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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-22-2007/0004686468&EDATE=

Talend adds monitoring to open source ETL platform

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| Talend has enhanced the enterprise management of its Open Studio open source 
| extract, transform, and load software, which it released late last year, to 
| include a brand new monitoring tool.   
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=CD9C9BBD-18DC-4873-BB6F-5CBDB5BCAC37

Another article....

Can open source sweeten the customer experience? 

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| The software as a service (SaaS) movement is gaining momentum and Dublin is 
| rapidly becoming a destination of choice for many international vendors 
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single9463


Related:

MySQL CEO: Open Source Is Software's Game of The Future

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| Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB, gave a keynote address at the Software
| and Information Industry Association software strategy summit in San
| Francisco yesterday. His topic was "Building A Sustainable Open
| Source Business." Like a good hockey player, he advised the
| audience to "skate to where the puck is going to be."
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/04/mysql_ceo_open.html


Millionaire cosmonaut takes on Microsoft

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| 'Ultimately open source is the platform of the future,' Shuttleworth told
| Reuters. 'It's one of those enormous waves that is taking over everything
| -- like the Internet.'
| 
| [...]
| 
| Governments in Brazil, China, Spain, India and Malaysia are already
| using Linux-based systems and Shuttleworth argues free software could
| slash the cost of getting computers into schools, community centres and
| homes in Africa.
| 
| [...]
| 
| 'Because open source is free, we can share knowledge much faster,'
| Shuttleworth said. 'If a kid learns to use a program at school she can
| take it and download it at home, show it to her parents and even her
| friends.'
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http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1200011.php/Millionaire_cosmonaut_takes_on_Microsoft


To find money in open source, look for IP owners

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| But even with these challenges, Johnson like many other software
| executives sees no alternative to open source.
| 
| "There are risks about the open-source industry but there is no
| alternative," he said. "This business is the future of software."
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http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6173260.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news

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