Public embraces open source
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| Mark Shuttleworth, who leads the distribution of Ubuntu OS, told the BBC: 'We
| have seen a real shift in the last six months, from folks seeing open source
| as either a super-specialist thing for people who run data centres or as an
| enthusiast thing, to something which is energising a lot of the straight
| commercial PC industry.'
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http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.18899
Open Source SugarCRM Scores Big with BT
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| Let me explain my rationale : SugarCRM (like MySQL) has a dual-source model
| with community and commercial offerings. While Sugar Professional and
| Enterprise are on the commercial side, they are both still based on the an
| open source core (and with SugarCRM 5.0 that core is GPLv3 licensed). As the
| demand and needs of BT's customer base for SugarCRM grow, I would hope (and
| expect) that there will be improvements to SugarCRM and those improvements
| will become manifest in the community core (and therefore benefit the
| community as a whole).
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/04/open-source-sugarcrm-scores-bi.html
Open Source ERP Grows Up
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| Can open source software find a home in mission critical systems? Based on
| momentum in the open source ERP market, it's starting to look that way,
| particularly for IT leaders at midmarket and smaller enterprises.
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http://www.cio.com/article/339321/Open_Source_ERP_Grows_Up
OpenClinica Community Surpasses 3,500 Members; Increases 155% in One Year
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| An increase in the interest and use of open source in clinical research has
| led to rapid growth of the community surrounding the OpenClinica open source
| clinical trials software from Akaza Research. In April 2007 this community
| comprised approximately 1,300 registered members. One year later, this figure
| has increased by 155 percent to over 3,500.
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http://www.emediawire.com/releases/clinicaltrialsoftware/clinicaldatamanagement/prweb878184.htm
Even car engineering inherits a similar philosophy:
Nova Goes Open Source for Car of the Future
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| "Car of the Future" is Nova's first attempt using its new "open production"
| formula. The entire creation of the one-hour show involved viewers who would
| then watch the end result. The public could preview the show's script online
| and then e-mail their thoughts (Nova received more than 900 missives), along
| with questions or topics they thought the producers had missed.
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http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/04/when-tonights-n.html
Recent:
Finland's 'Open Source' Electric Car Plan
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| When I think of faraway Finland, I think of long, dark winters, saunas,
| reindeer and Nokia cellular telephones. I don't think of electric cars...
| until now.
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http://www.evworld.com/article.cfm?storyid=1419
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