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Big names for govt XML workshop
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| Participants will include representatives from government, universities,
| research organisations and the private sector. The South African Burea of
| Standards, which lodged the first official appeal against the ISO process to
| make Microsoft’s OOXML an international standard, will also be participating.
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| Microsoft South Africa, IBM, Sun Microsystems and the Meraka Institute are
| sponsors of the event and entry to all the workshop and tutorial sessions
| will be free to the public.
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| Patrick Durusau is the editor of OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.2 at OASIS,
| while Rob Weir is the co-chair of the OASIS ODF Technical Committe. Steve
| Pepper is represented Norway on ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34, the ISO subcommittee for
| document description languages, since 1995, and convened the Topic Maps
| Working Group since it was founded.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2482
MontaVista Vision 2008 Embedded Linux Developers Conference to Present
Educational Sessions and New Technology from Top Companies
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| MontaVista® Software, Inc., the leader in embedded Linux® commercialization,
| today announced the Vision 2008 Embedded Linux Developers Conference, to be
| held at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California, October 1-3, 2008.
| Hosted by MontaVista, with platinum sponsors, including Freescale
| Semiconductor, the Vision 2008 event will provide hundreds of embedded Linux
| developers with real-world tips, techniques, and tools to get the most out of
| open source software for their design projects.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080609005600&newsLang=en
Recent:
Embedded Linux has more friends than you may know
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| Sony recently announced that one of its BRAVIA LCD TV factories will double
| production from 2 million TV sets per year to 4 million to meet growing
| demand in Europe. Sony has sold more than 20 million of these TVs, and
| they're all built with embedded Linux.
|
| So what? Embedded Linux is no surprise. Sony and tens of thousands of other
| companies, from huge to tiny, use embedded Linux every day to deliver
| successful products in every market. That is not news.
|
| Ten years ago, though, embedded Linux was a surprising-even shocking-idea to
| most people. Back in 1998, fresh from victory in the RTOS industry, I
| introduced the idea of building a software company to make Linux a suitable
| OS for developing smart devices. When I told people the idea, they gawked as
| if I was a few lines short of compilable code.
|
| "You want to build a company on software that's available for free?" I was
| asked. "Based on the gigantically bloated Unix OS? And with some oddball GPL
| license? How fast do you expect people to kick you out of their office?"
|
| Every market survey showed that the demand for embedded Linux was zero. When
| we released our first product, industry experts agreed that nobody needed it.
| Embedded Linux won't work because it is "too big, too slow, and not
| real-time," said the head of one RTOS company. The president of another
| derided embedded Linux as "a royal pain in the ass," so no developer would
| ever use it.
|
| I took heart from a quote attributed to Mohandas Gandhi: "First they ignore
| you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win."
|
| [...]
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| Analyst firms don't agree on how many device engineers use embedded Linux,
| but they all say the number is substantial: 21% of developers use embedded
| Linux, according to last year's Embedded Systems Design survey; 36.7%,
| according to current research by Embedded Market Forecasters. This April, VDC
| reported that Linux is now the leading embedded OS. It shouldn't be
| surprising. After all, commercial Linux vendors succeed because they
| understand what design engineers are looking for.
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http://www.embedded.com/columns/guest/207602734
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