Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> Siemens gets serious about open source
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>| Siemens' outsourcing unit is snapping up some of South Africa's brightest
>| open source minds as it readies to offer large-scale open source services to
>| clients. Going, as it does, head-to-head with the likes of IBM and T-Systems,
>| the company is hoping its open source strategy will find a new niche in an
>| already highly-competitive market.
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>| [...]
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>| ?Previously Siemens was a wholly Microsoft house and there was no inclination
>| to offer open source,? he says. Recently, however, Siemens identified open
>| source as having a ?very viable business case?.
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>| [...]
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>| Siemens already has in place partnerships and agreements with Red Hat,
>| Canonical and enterprise content management suite providers Alfresco.
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>| With a Red Hat partnership in place Siemens will also be looking to use JBoss
>| in place of WebSphere for its middleware needs.
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> http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2489
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> Siemens is the worst pro-software patents lobbyist.
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And yet, Siemens were one of the founding members of the OSDL...
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