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More Must Be Given To SMBs To Adopt Technology, Say IT Industry Members
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| An incentive or rebate scheme by the government for
| small medium businesses (SMBs) to adopt technology
| into their business is very timely in light of the
| current uncertainty ahead, said Red Hat Asia
| Pacific.
|
| Its country sales manager, Basheer Mohd Ali said
| technology remained a key enabler for SMBs to remain
| competitive and relevant in today's modern business
| world where business opportunities are available
| around the clock and not bounded by physical borders.
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http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsbusiness.php?id=447291
Remarkable Wit is Building Nashvilleâs Open Source Future One Developerâand One Student â At a Time
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| Tennessseeâs technology students will enter the same
| competitive landscape as graduates from MIT,
| Stanford, Carnegie Mellon and other technology
| education superpowers, yet because of budgetary
| concerns, often Tennessee studentsâ access to IT
| thought leaders working on bleeding edge projects is
| limited.
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http://www.pr.com/press-release/185613
Integration Watch: From open source to commercial quality: A study in rigor
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| Interestingly, all these changes are for the better
| and all, without exception, rest on one aspect:
| introducing greater rigor. This rigor is the quality
| often missing from OSS projects, in part because
| itâs difficult to impose it on contributors who are
| donating their time. But OSS projects that want to
| stand out from the crowd or are entertaining
| thoughts of eventually going commercial can help
| themselves significantly by establishing a pattern
| of this rigor early on.
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http://www.sdtimes.com/INTEGRATION_WATCH_FROM_OPEN_SOURCE_TO_COMMERCIAL_QUALITY_A_STUDY_IN_RIGOR/By_ANDREW_BINSTOCK/About_OPENSOURCE/33835
Recent:
OpenParliament petition goes to the European Parliament PETI committee
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| The OpenParliament petition goes to the European Parliament PETI committee.
| The draft agenda of tomorrow mentions another interesting petition by a
| German citizen who has been required by the state to purchase Microsoft
| products. The European Parliament also forces European citizens to buy a copy
| of Microsoft Word to consult parliamentary questions, or to use Windows Media
| Player to view the European Parliament's webTV WMV streaming. Time to send
| the bill to President Poettering.
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-102632/openparliament-petition-goes-to-the-european-parliament-peti-committee
Europe is not a single market for open source
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| The overall impression is the same: more commercial-led engagements in the
| US, more community-led engagements in Europe, and a disproportionate number
| of leads in Europe overall. As Brian pointed out, however, there is another
| layer of complexity.
|
| In JasperSoftâs experience, activities in Northern Europe and the UK are more
| likely to be led by commercial adoption, while activities in Southern Europe
| including France are more likely to be community-led. Germany is somewhere in
| the middle.
|
| For JasperSoft the UK and Northern Europe tend to be direct sales
| engagements, while in France and Germany the company is concentrating on
| partnerships with local systems integrators, resellers and consultants.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/11/03/europe-is-not-a-single-market-for-open-source/
Related:
EU Says Governments Could Bar Microsoft From Bidding
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| Governments contracting IT work could conclude that Microsoft's antitrust
| history constitutes "grave professional misconduct" and ban the company,
| according to the European Commission.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147175/eu_says_governments_could_bar_microsoft_from_bidding.html
EU: Europarlement testing Ubuntu, OpenOffice and Firefox
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| The European Parliament's IT department is testing the use of GNU/Linux
| distribution Ubuntu, OpenOffice, Firefox and other Open Source applications,
| the British MEP James Nicholson explained last week in a letter to Italian
| MEP Marco Cappato.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7565
Is Microsoft Now Banned from EU Contracts?
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=697&blogid=14
Euro MP thinks Microsoft should be banned from government contracts
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/10/member-eu-parliament-asks
Green MEP says Microsoft should be excluded from EU contract awarding procedure
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/106338/from/rss09
EC probes OOXML standards-setting process
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| A spokesman for the European Commissioner for Competition, Neelie Kroes, told
| The Register that regulators were continuing to scrutinise interoperability
| issues related to Microsoftâs products following complaints from the
| Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) group.
|
| As part of that process, the EC formally contacted a number of national
| standards bodies, including the Norwegian Standards Institute (NSI),
| requesting more details about possible irregularities in the OOXML
| standardisation process.
|
| [...]
|
| âIt must be stressed that it is not the Commission's intention to influence
| the outcome of this process, but the Commission considers it essential to
| ensure that European competition law is not violated in the course of the
| standard setting process,â he said in an email to El Reg.
|
| In January the EC began formal anti-trust probes against Microsoft in two
| cases where it was alleged that the multinational firm had abused its strong
| market position. As part of the investigation into the first case, the
| Commission said that it would scrutinise OOXML on the grounds that the
| specification doesn't work with those of competitors.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/04/ooxml_ec_investigation_iso/
EU Commission Investigating Microsoft's MSOOXML Push
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| I hope they think to investigate the smear campaigns that seem to always
| happen to anyone on the other side from Microsoft. What happened to Peter
| Quinn was by no means unique.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080208151410252
Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format
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| Is this just a random coincidence? The median of the CPI index of the above
| mentioned 70 countries is 3.95. Of the most corrupted half (CPI index less
| than 3.95) 23 or 77% voted for approval (approval or approval with comments)
| and 7 or 23% for disapproval; 5 abstained. Of the least corrupted half (CPI
| index more than 3.95) 13 or 54% voted for approval and 11 or 46% voted for
| disapproval; 11 abstained - see the table below.
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http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html
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