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Donnerstag Juni 09, 2005

Eurasian Languages Native-Lang Group
This just got announced:

"This group comes as an answer to the needs of several projects to share their ressources, information, and ease communication between them and the greater OpenOffice.org community. As a result,

- the Russian (http://ru.openoffice.org)
- the Turkish (http://tr.openoffice.org)
- the Georgian (http://ka.openoffice.org)
- the Azeri (http://az.openoffice.org)
- the Ukrainian (http://ua.openoffice.org)

native-lang projects form this new group."
( Jun 09 2005, 03:39:44 PM CEST ) Permalink

Gartner: Open source is one of 2005's hottest topics
"OSS will not destroy industry giants, such as IBM and Microsoft, but it will revolutionize software markets by moving revenue streams from license fees to services and support. In doing so, it will be a catalyst that restructures the industry. OSS refers to software whose code is open and can be extended and freely distributed. In contrast to proprietary software, it allows for collaborative development, and a continuous cycle of development, review and testing.

By 2008 95 percent of Global 2000 organizations will have formal open-source acquisition and management strategies; and, OSS applications will directly compete with closed-source products in every software infrastructure market. By 2010, IT organizations in Global 2000 companies will consider open-source products in 80 percent of their infrastructure-focused software investments and 25 percent of their business software investments."

The full article can be found here.
( Jun 09 2005, 11:05:24 AM CEST ) Permalink

Must-read IBM blog entry about OASIS OpenDocument
"To me, that document formats for "office" applications should be completely open, not hindered by patents, and not owned by a single vendor is just obvious. I wasn't brought up to think otherwise, and so this whole business around why everyone should be rushing to implement the new OASIS Open Document format standard is a big "duh" (that is, slap-yourself-in-the-head-obvious)."
The full blog entry can be found here.
( Jun 09 2005, 10:47:31 AM CEST ) Permalink