http://www.opentech.ca/ en-us 2004-12-21T23:15:01-03:30 http://www.opentech.ca/news/archives/000236.html In 2005, open source will become respectable for big business. It is true that many big businesses already have respect for open-source software, such as IBM, Oracle and Sun. Even Microsoft has developed a healthy respect for open source as... Business News gerg_noswad 2004-12-21T23:15:01-03:30 http://www.opentech.ca/news/archives/000235.html Whether companies sell or provide their databases with fully available source code, through a new open source project, or with their very own open source license, there is definitely open source fever in the database business these days. Older, established... Databases gerg_noswad 2004-12-20T23:11:08-03:30 http://www.opentech.ca/news/archives/000234.html InfoSecure Open Systems & Solutions announced the release of technology and related services that enable the use of the open-source Compiere enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) application on the SAP-certified open- source MaxDB by MySQL database,... Business News gerg_noswad 2004-12-17T23:01:15-03:30 http://www.opentech.ca/news/archives/000233.html Plone expert Cameron Cooper's new book is out. 'Building Websites with Plone' explains how Plone works, shows how to use its many out-of-the-box features, and explains how this highly flexible system can be extended and customized. Built on the popular... Developer News gerg_noswad 2004-12-09T22:55:01-03:30 http://www.opentech.ca/news/archives/000232.html IT spending in the Asia-Pacific is expected to increase in 2005, albeit at a slower rate than before, predicted Gartner on Tuesday. At its annual forecast meeting with reporters, the research firm projected that tech expenditure in the region excluding... Public Sector gerg_noswad 2004-12-08T22:49:59-03:30 http://www.opentech.ca/news/archives/000231.html Oregon State University has formed an "Open Source Laboratory" - the first such facility at any public university in the nation - and is becoming an educational leader in this concept, in which computer software is developed and given for... Public Sector gerg_noswad 2004-12-06T22:45:13-03:30 http://www.opentech.ca/news/archives/000230.html Government agencies, such as the Defense Ministry of Singapore, are giving Microsoft Office upgrades a pass in preference to open source alternatives that promise to reduce the cost and complexity of running and maintaining business software applications. Entire Article... Office Productivity gerg_noswad 2004-12-02T22:40:38-03:30 http://www.opentech.ca/news/archives/000229.html Microsoft claims that it did not warn Asian governments against Linux and was merely referring to a study done by an open-source group, but the author of the study says his report was misinterpreted Microsoft has denied reports that it... Windows gerg_noswad 2004-11-23T12:31:41-03:30 http://www.opentech.ca/news/archives/000227.html CollabNet, the leading provider of on demand distributed software development solutions, today announced it is seeing a rise in the influence of corporate-initiated open source collaborative development projects which are being used to further the evolution of proprietary hardware and... Trends gerg_noswad 2004-11-22T12:20:21-03:30 http://www.opentech.ca/news/archives/000226.html The Dutch prime minister and the office of the Irish prime minister have urged other European governments to consider open source software in the spirit of "inter-agency collaboration". Entire Article... Public Sector gerg_noswad 2004-11-19T12:17:01-03:30 http://www.opentech.ca/news/archives/000225.html A new television show sponsored by the Go Open Source campaign, in association with the Shuttleworth Foundation, HP, the CSIR and Canonical, will go live on SABC tomorrow to promote the use of open source software in SA. The show... Trends gerg_noswad 2004-11-19T12:15:01-03:30 http://www.opentech.ca/news/archives/000228.html Microsoft Corp. Chief Operating Officer Steve Ballmer on Thursday warned Asian governments that they could face intellectual rights-infringement lawsuits for using rival open-source operating platforms such as Linux. Linux is open-code software that is freely available on the Internet and... Windows gerg_noswad 2004-11-18T12:29:11-03:30 http://www.opentech.ca/news/archives/000224.html Local public sector bodies can use Open Source software to stimulate the local economy, according to delegates at the Open Source in the Public Sector conference. At the conference many IT heads were unhappy that millions of pounds spent on... Public Sector gerg_noswad 2004-11-18T12:10:31-03:30 http://www.opentech.ca/news/archives/000223.html Enterprises that in the past may have been leery of open-source alternatives to commercial software have become more receptive to the idea, panelists said yesterday at an SDForum conference in Santa Clara, Calif., titled "Open Source -- Entering the Mainstream."... Trends gerg_noswad 2004-11-17T12:04:58-03:30 http://www.opentech.ca/news/archives/000222.html It cost Sun Microsystems $5 billion to develop Solaris, a powerful computer operating system used by governments and giant corporations worldwide. But in a concession to the radical new economics of computer software, Sun will distribute the latest version of... International News gerg_noswad 2004-11-16T12:01:12-03:30