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Low-cost software used to train up Aer Lingus pilots
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| The airline chose Moodle, a free and open source e-learning management
| platform, which made the project considerably cheaper than it would have cost
| with commercial software.
|
| Enovation Solutions, a Dublin-based open source consultancy firm, modified
| elements of the Moodle platform to include Aer Lingus’s courseware, which
| includes simulator training with procedural and aircraft operation training.
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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/0508/1224246114977.html
Recent:
Ubuntu Ireland goes for open source success
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| Danielski said Ubuntu Ireland wants to encourage everyone to participate in
| the preparations and to share ideas for the event on its wiki page (wikis are
| editable, collaborative web pages) at
| https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrishTeam/SFD2008.
|
| The main event will be held at Camara’s offices in the Digital Hub in Dublin.
| Camara is a small charity organisation that together with volunteers takes
| old computers and refurbishes them with open source software before shipping
| these on to developing countries.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/11032/cio/ubuntu-ireland-goes-for-open-source-success
http://tinyurl.com/5lupdk
Irish Open Source Technology Conference 2008
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| The IOTC 2008 agenda is a multi track multi session affair and we still have
| opportunities for you, the Irish Open Source Community to participate.
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http://www.irishdev.com/blogs/irish_open_source_technology_conference_2008/archive/2008/05/01/5705.aspx
Related:
Irish IT licensing investment falling short
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| Irish companies are increasingly recognising the value of
| technology licensing but are not investing enough in the process,
| according to Enterprise Ireland.
|
| Irish companies invested roughly Euro1.4bn in research and development
| in 2006, but only five per cent of this was spent on licensing.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/19/enterprise_ireland_sme_licensing/
Ireland Votes No with Comments
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| After months of intensive review, analysis and discussion, NSAI has voted
| Disapproval - with Technical Comments, in respect of the OOXML submission.
| This effectively is a qualified yes, whereby Ireland has some technical
| issues with the submission. If the Technical Comments are satisfactorily
| resolved and incorporated into a new draft, the vote is subsequently amended
| to Approval.
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http://www.nsai.ie/index.cfm/area/news/action/article/information/xml
Open Ireland - Open Source Software in Ireland
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| A report funded by the European Commission and recently published
| found that open source software could offer considerable saving to
| organisations with little effect on their business.
|
| The author of the report ( known as the FLOSS Report), Rishab Aiyer
| Ghosh will lead a panel of distinguished and knowledgeable speakers
| in an an engaging conference.
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http://www.irishdev.com/EventDetails.aspx?id=712
The 1st Skynet Conference on Computers & I.T.
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| Many of these founders are now developers for large multinational
| companies such as IBM, Intel Sun and Sun Microsystems.
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http://skycon.skynet.ie/
Obama declares war on Ireland over tech tax avoidance
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| President Obama has declared war on Ireland, the Netherlands and Bermuda, and
| is giving Silicon Valley a long hard stare as he overhauls America's tax
| system to bankroll his campaign pledges.
|
| The White House has unveiled proposals to clamp down on US firms it reckons
| are hiding profits overseas to benefit from lower tax rates, while claiming
| exemptions for overseas investment on their US tax returns. DC is also
| targeting wealthy US individuals as well as corporations who are evading US
| taxes by hiding their cash in tax havens, such as the Cayman Islands,
| effectively avoiding tax in the US or pretty much anywhere else.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/05/obama_tax/
Microsoft subsidiary has €477m pretax profit
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| Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd (MIOL) had turnover of €11.3 billion and
| paid corporation tax of €63.5 million according to accounts just lodged with
| the Companies Office and seen by The Irish Times.
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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/0429/1224245596231.html
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