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Sun urges Filipino programmers to become software entrepreneurs
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| "The opportunities are tremendous, particularly in the area of open source,"
| said Aisling MacRunnels, vice president for software marketing at Sun.
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| "In fact, in terms of usage, the Philippines is No. 8 in the world," Aisling
| said, noting that open source is the "model of the future."
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http://www.mb.com.ph/INFO20080704128926.html
Also from the Philippines:
Philippine Software Group Eyes U.S.
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| Damarillo said the group will work with select government agencies for the
| undertaking.
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| One of the more interesting software products that the PSIA will be pitching
| in front of potential U.S. clients is Maestro, an open source-based product
| developed by PSIA member Exist.
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| Exist said Maestro provides an integrated open source platform that enables
| comprehensive build management by integrating Apache tools such as Apache
| Maven and Apache Continuum.
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http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul2008/gb2008072_431672.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_global+business
Related:
23,000 Linux PCs forge education revolution in Philippines
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| Providing high school students with PCs is seen as a first step to preparing
| them for a technology-literate future, but in the Philippines many schools
| cannot afford to provide computing facilities so after a successful
| deployment of 13,000 Fedora Linux systems from a government grant, plans are
| underway to roll out another 10,000 based on Ubuntu.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1163450117
Sun officials laud Philippines open-source community
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| The Philippines has the eighth largest development community for open source
| in the world. This was revealed by Sun Microsystems executives who were here
| recently to celebrate the third anniversary of the Java Education and
| Development Initiative (JEDI)--an open source skills training program
| initiated in the Philippines by Sun Microsystems together with several local
| universities and college instructors.
|
| [...]
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| He said there are now 273 JEDI member schools in the country with 2,790
| teachers, of which 730 are well trained. He said Sun expects over 114,939
| students to benefit from the JEDI program in the Philippines this year alone.
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http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/03/07/sun-officials-laud-philippines-open-source-community
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