China's UFIDA Embraces Open Standards, Partners With IBM to Reach New Markets
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| Prior to working with IBM, UFIDA's business solutions were based solely
| on Microsoft's .NET/SQL technology. To continue growing its business,
| UFIDA identified the need for an open platform as a key factor in
| achieving global success. The company, making a conscious decision to
| build on open standards and deploy their applications on J2EE,
| partnered with IBM to develop its new enterprise resource planning
| (ERP) solutions based on IBM's open middleware offerings.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070328/0231546.html
Last week in a large Japanese software maker:
Open-source shift also occurring in our company. (March 12, 2007)
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| According to press reports, the customs service of the government of Cuba
| is already using LINUX, the open-source operating system, and other Cuban
| government agencies also plan to shift to open-source software in the near
| future.
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| Of course we continued some Microsoft license agreements that we judged to
| be absolutely indispensable for responding to the needs of our customers,
| but on a company-wide basis, OpenOffice is now our office software
| standard. As a rule, our employees now use only freely-available
| open-source software for creating documents, spread-sheets, and
| presentation materials.
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http://gemal.dk/blog/2005/01/10/bill_gates_calls_free_culture_advocates_communists/?from=rss-category
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