Netherlands adopts open-source software
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The Dutch government has set a soft deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software Â freely distributed programs that anyone can modify Â the Netherlands Economic Affairs Ministry said Thursday.
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(InfoWorld) - Ten leading open-source software vendors have created a nonprofit consortium, dubbed the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), to push the adoption of more open-source technology in the business world. The group made the announcement Wednesday at the LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit in New York. The founding companies are Adaptive Planning, Centric CRM, CollabNet, EnterpriseDB, Hyperic, JasperSoft, Openbravo, SourceForge.net, SpikeSource, and Talend. They offer a wide range of open-source business software including business intelligence, business performance management, database, CRM (customer relationship management), ERP (enterprise resource planning) and systems management applications. The members pledged to work on resolving open-source software interoperability issues to make it easier for business users to integrate products from different vendors. The OSA will also work with open-source independent software vendors, systems integrators and the open-source community in general to find ways to create better integrated and simpler to use software stacks. Creating stacks of software components is a growing trend among open-source players as they compete with established stacks of operating systems, middleware, databases, and applications already offered by proprietary vendors. The consortium first plans to define tools, frameworks and best practices around simpler application deployment and interoperability. It will also look to establish communities to work on specific projects as well as facilitate joint marketing campaigns for open-source business applications. The group is actively seeking more members and has set up a Web site.
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PC Magazine - Opinion: Microsoft's open-source pledge is a good step.
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Open Solutions Alliance hopes to make open-source software programs work better together.
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Local government offices in the French capital will be moving to open source software, but they&#39;ll be doing it slowly. An independent study showed that a switch to open source would cause &quot;significant
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The goal is to convince more government agencies and private companies to use more open-source software.
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New users are making their way to Linux and open source, one acronym at a time.
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Open-source software advocates got a potential boost from a report by the U.K.'s Office of Government Commerce, which cited advantages on the server side and a growing maturity on the desktop front.
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Company's third open-source contribution is the first time it has shared code for actual application.
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Communist Cuba joins socialist Venezuela in embracing the concept of open-source software. By the Associated Press.
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The Office of Government Commerce (OGC), UK, has finally given the green signal persuading governments to consider the deployment of open source while implementing new systems.
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The open-source project, still in early stages, is a cross-platform development tool that some are comparing to Java. Support is currently limited to Web applications and command-line tools.
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Open source can immediately prompt the words &#39;law suit&#39; in some peoples&#39; minds, but Black Duck have introduced a software platform that helps developers catch and resolve potential intellectual property disputes.
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Open-source software maker releases big update to Java-based application server program.
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Latest version of the open-source suite also adds support for mobile devices.
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Microsoft signed a rare deal with an open source software group, taking a step towards meeting sanctions imposed by the European Commission for antitrust violations.
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LONDON -- Open source software proponents received a potential boost from the U.K. government on Thursday with a release of a report citing the well-documented advantages on the server side, but also growing maturity on the desktop front.