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Digium® Launches Support Services for Open Source Asterisk®
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| Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, today announced the general
| availability of support subscriptions for open source Asterisk. The software,
| which Digium’s Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Mark Spencer, created
| and released under the open source GNU General Public License (GPL) 10 years
| ago, is now the world’s most pervasive open source telephony platform. The
| new Asterisk support services allow organizations of any size to leverage the
| power of open source Asterisk with the confidence that their system is
| supported by a world-class support organization. The support subscriptions
| provide technical support, hardware replacements and substantial discounts on
| training programs to enable users to take full advantage of the power of the
| Asterisk platform.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090330005170&newsLang=en
Free software means business.
Job Trends: Tomcat, Spring, Weblogic, JBoss, EJB
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| Forrester recently described a trend that they refer to as "lean software" in
| their paper entitled Lean Software Is Agile, Fit-To-Purpose, And Efficient.
| They state that "lean software is emerging as the antidote to bloatware" and
| that "the trend toward lean software has been building for years, but the
| worldwide recession is accelerating it".
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http://blog.springsource.com/2009/03/29/job-trends-tomcat-spring-weblogic-jboss-ejb/
Recent:
Linux Courses Increase Job Options for Techs
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| For software programmers and developers worried about layoffs and job
| security in these tough economic times, the answer may be as clear as the
| screen on your cell phone. That's because manufacturers of small consumer
| equipment like cell phones and PDAs need programmers trained in embedded
| Linux to hand-tune the product's software code.
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http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent.aspx?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/01-09-2009/0004952263&EDATE=
Open Source Toolkit for Job Hunters
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| Once you are in the interview process with an organization, you may be asked
| to do a presentation to prove your knowledge and skills. (Even if you're not,
| you might want to think about doing one.) KPresenter 1.6.1 is the open source
| presentations part of the KOffice suite. This project is excellent for
| combining text and graphics into slides either for on-screen presentation or
| handouts. If your potential employer has you interviewing with a globally
| dispersed team, you can use KPresenter to put your presentation online using
| the HTML slideshow functionality, allowing everyone to see your presentation
| easily.
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http://cms.sys-con.com/node/892783/print
Where the Tech Jobs Are, Part 1
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| "In a recession, headcount looks like a cost center, but open source can turn
| employees into profit centers -- or, at worst, into less costly cost
| centers," he said.
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| "For example, let's say an enterprise needs [an enterprise content
| management] system, perhaps for outsourcing documentation or to build a new
| catalog system -- or perhaps for a workflow system around approval of
| executive documents. Traditional IT would invite vendors to do a dog-and-pony
| show," Asay explained, "ultimately culminating in a purchase of software
| licenses and services to make the licenses useful to the enterprise." The IT
| staffer is then mostly responsible for coordinating others' efforts, and the
| associated expenses.
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| An open source savvy IT person, by contrast, would download an open source
| ECM solution and tweak it to save the company license and services
| fees -- "and the risk that the software wouldn't work as advertised," said
| Asay.
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/commentary/65705.html
Training program to create 100,000 jobs
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| LUPA (Leadership of Open Source University Promotion Alliance), a Chinese
| open source software community, plans to initiate a training project for the
| country's computer and software graduates as low-cost open source software
| development is gaining popularity in the current financial crisis.
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2008-12/19/content_7324052.htm
Linux and your worth in the Job Market
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| As bad as the economy is right now, there are quite a few jobs out there.
| Especially for Linux System Administrators/Engineers!
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http://www.linuxdynasty.org/linux-and-your-worth-in-the-job-market.html
Gameloft Moves 1,000 Desktops to Ubuntu Linux
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| “It’s been a pretty big deployment, well over 1000 desktops and it’s been a
| huge success,” crows the source. “Ubuntu does the same job [as Windows] for
| zero cash. The most painful thing about the change over was moving to
| Thunderbird from Outlook. No one has batted an eyelid about moving to Gnome.”
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/10/03/gameloft-moves-1000-desktops-to-ubuntu-linux/
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