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Open source through the Microsoft window

MARTIN Taylor, Microsoft Corp’s general manager for its platform strategy, and considered one of the software giant’s utmost authorities in its battle with Linux...

Study on the effect of open source software in public organisations

The European Commission's Information Society and Media DG has published a call for tenders for a 'study on the effect on the development of...

Using Open Source For Portals

Companies can use Metadot's open-source software as their primary intranet or Web-site tool, or use it to augment other portal packages Link: informationweek.com Category: Open...

IBM Appoints Open-Source Promoter To Head Rational Software

Danny Sabbah is a 30-year veteran of the company and an architect of its open-source policy, as well as overseer of its mainstream...

Michael Meeks gives inside view of OpenOffice

Matthew Revell writes "Michael Meeks, Novell hacker and Busiest Man Alive, talks about OpenOffice.org, Gnome, how you can get involved, and how to get...

IBM enhances support for open-source training

IBM announced on Tuesday a clutch of new initiatives to promote open-source technology in academic institutions. Link: news.com Category: Open Source

FSF works on ‘fully free’ OpenOffice

Concerns that OpenOffice will be trapped into using Sun's proprietary implementation of Java have lead the Free Software Foundation to improve its own version. Link:...

Bristol ready to put open source on 3,500 desktops

Bristol City Council is to deploy the open source Staroffice productivity suite across 3,500 desktops following a six-month prep- aration programme. Link: computerweekly.com Category: Open Source

OASIS Approves OpenOffice 2.0 File Format

sjvn writes "The new XML-based standard offers a vendor-neutral format for documents, spreadsheets, databases and presentations." Link: eweek.com

Agassi: For and against open source

While one software visionary wonders how to get young people interested in developing dry business application software, another may have the solution: open source. Link:...