Open Source Communities Announce Participation Details For Sun Sponsored
$1Million Innovation Awards Program
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| In any Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, collaboration and
| creativity are central to its success in engaging developers and fostering
| innovation. The six participating communities have been involved from the
| beginning in the design of their programs and will also be involved in their
| administration. Even as the program gets underway, developers are already
| thinking through potential entries.
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http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash.20080129.2.xml
Open Solutions Alliance Announces Global Expansion of Open-Source Consortium
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| The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium
| dedicated to driving interoperability and adoption of comprehensive open
| solutions, today announced plans to expand the organization's global
| footprint. The OSA will function under a chapter structure with its first new
| regional chapter planned to address the European open solutions market.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080129/aqtu042.html?.v=45
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Open Source Alliance's Barry Klawans: In the Vendors' Corner
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| Question: With all the other Linux and open source advocacy groups already in
| existence, why launch the OSA?
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| Answer: We looked around at the other consortiums out there; we didn't want
| to create another foundation just because we thought it was fun. But they
| were all aimed at advocating for Linux or infrastructure [tools].
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59312.html
OSA debuts CCV interoperability prototype
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| Nonprofit vendor consortium the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) made good on
| its April promise to deliver a prototype demonstrating interoperability
| between open-source and proprietary business applications in time for
| LinuxWorld this week.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070807/tc_infoworld/90809
Barry Klawans of the Open Solutions Alliance talks up interoperability
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| We're advocates in general, and we encourage other companies to join us. We
| think right now that where the world is, it's a lot more important for
| nonmembers and members to collaborate than it is to try to kill each other.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=operating_systems&articleId=9027920&taxonomyId=89&intsrc=kc_top
http://tinyurl.com/2jspyf
Open Solutions Alliance Debuts New Showcase At LinuxWorld
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| Open Solutions Alliance was formed in February 2007 to drive the adoption
| and interoperability of enterprise class open business solutions.
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http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-open-solutions-alliance-debuts-new-showcase-linuxworld-/2007/06/14/2713077.htm
Open Solutions Alliance Takes Aim at IP Risk
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| As part of its requirement for membership to the OSA, which
| launched in February to promote and develop interoperable open
| source solutions, Palamida is now offering to scan the
| interoperability-related code of OSA members for potential
| intellectual property (IP) and security issues.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3681106
Lightfleet Joins Open Solutions Alliance
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| Lightfleet Corporation today announced that it has joined the Open
| Solutions Alliance (OSA), a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium
| dedicated to driving interoperability and adoption of comprehensive
| open solutions.
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http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070508005149&newsLang=en
Open Solutions Alliance adds six new members
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| Originally founded by 10 members, the OSA is now up to 18 thanks to
| the addition of Black Duck, the Mambo Foundation, Onepoint, the Open
| Source Technology Alliance, Palamida, and Project.net.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=7E275CDB-E130-483D-95E7-C81762052432
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer on the Dangers of Open Source Software
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| "If somebody came to you and said you have a new competitor that has
| no price and has no cost structure you might stay up a night or two
| on that one."
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070426/33579_id.html?.v=1
New Open Source Group to Focus on Apps
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| The group, to be announced next week at the Open Solutions Summit in
| New York City, will likely include key open source application
| vendors CentricCRM, Adaptive Planning, SpikeSource, EnterpriseDB,
| Hypernic, OpenBravo and JasperSoft, according to an e-mail to
| internetnews.com. CentricCRM, EnterpriseDB, SpikeSource, and
| JasperSoft declined comment.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3658336
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