In the News
Information Week's Serdar Yegulalp asks, "And so now Microsoft has conceded its antitrust case in the EU. So what does this mean for open source and Linux? From what I can tell, it just means business as usual."
Vnunnet.com reports, "Microsoft's compliance with the 2004 EU anti-trust ruling offering some good news to open source developers and users. The agreement will make it much easier for commercial and especially open source providers to create products that work with Microsoft products. As a result, Microsoft will no longer be able force itself upon new markets by offering a level of integration that isn't available from competing vendors."
ZDNet reports, "Open source systems management ISV Zenoss will reveal this week a partnership with rPath that will enable it to deliver VMware appliances in the VMware marketplace."
InternetNews.com opines, "The OpenSEA (Open Secure Edge Access) alliance, which was announced in May just ahead of the Las Vegas Interop show, is trying to prove that it's more than just a one-shot announcement with its first product release, debuting today ahead of this week's Interop New York 2007."
CNet informs us, "According to a survey of the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) [PDF], open source adoption is rampant within the rank-and-file of Oracle users...including widespread adoption of MySQL."
On the Blogosphere
Free and Open Source Software in Education shares, "Windows/Mac/Linux: Add clip art, advanced PDF functions, and in-editor Wikipedia searching to open source office suite OpenOffice.org with OxygenOffice Professional, a modified installation package and extension."
451 Caos Theory reports, "Two big open source stories from the UK: not only is retailing behemoth Tesco selling PCs bunded with the Ubuntu operating system but Becta, the government agency responsible for technology in the education system, has reported Microsoft to the Office of Fair Trading for alleged anti-competitive practices."
From ZDNet-UK: "Rather than investing time and energy into helping to promote real alternatives to Redmond's hold on school IT, Becta (The UK's advisor to the use of IT in schools) is simply using the OFT as a negotiating tool. Like many organisations, Becta seems incapable of thinking outside a Microsoft-defined box."
Tom Hoffman describes the promotion of this year's K-12 Open Mind's Conference as poor. Nonetheless, it turned out to be a great conference. He states, "The Open Minds Conference is the one we've been waiting for as a community. See you next year, in Indianapolis."
News from Manila: "The Commission on Information and Communications Technology expects to computerize 320 public high schools within the year through a project that donates computers loaded with open source software."
Christopher Dawson writes, "Maybe not for the average corporation yet, or even the average home user, but every time Canonical releases a new version of Ubuntu (and with it comes Edubuntu), Microsoft becomes a little less the default vendor of choice for educational computing."
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
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