Jun. 30, 2008

One of India's 28 states plans to distribute 100,000 Linux laptops to students there. It sounds like
Tamil Nadu's volume purchasing agent decided to use Linux exclusively
after being put off by Microsoft's bundling tactics for academic users.

via CIO.com - Open Source by Esther Schindler on 5/29/08

May 30, 2008—CIO— Open-source solutions used to be adopted quietly by company boffins who snuck in an Apache Web server or an open-source development tool suite under the philosophy "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission" (not to mention "It's easier to do it with open-source tools than to get an IT budget").

Raleigh, NC – May 13, 2008 – The Fedora Project, a Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 9, the latest version of its open source operating system distribution. Fedora 9 continues to build upon a tradition of innovation as the community Linux distribution that offers the latest, cutting-edge features with continued delivery of quality and impact. It features the first non-destructive live USB with persistence, and marks the first major

OPEN SOURCE stakeholders, user groups, advocates and enthusiasts across the world will converge in Cebu for the Philippine Open Source Summit (POSS) slated on June 23-24 at the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC) in the Mandaue City. This was announced recently by POSS Summit Director Bonifacio Belen and co-sponsor Global Gateway Venture Capital (G2VC) Managing Director Winston Damarillo. The summit is spearheaded by the Cebu Business Month 2008 ICT Committee.

Sun Microsystems used the opening day of its CommunityOne open source developer conference to release its OpenSolaris Operating System. The new offering was unveiled three years after Sun announced its open-source plan for the Solaris operating system. Alongside, Sun also released the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment Early Access for PHP.

Gartner says open-source operating systems—Linux in particular—have caught up to their fee-based counterparts, but a new report predicts costs will rise as well. 

From the INQUIRER.NET, posted by Erwin Oliva

A national open source group meet-up is scheduled in Cebu to prepare for an Asian-wide open source conference in October, a co-organizer of the event told INQUIRER.net.

Red Hat officially introduced its latest Asia Pacific (AP) initiative, the Open Source Collaborative Innovation (OCSI), in Singapore last week, designed to advance and build a global open source community for collaboration innovation...

Linux Is No Longer The Cool New Kid On The Block. So Now What?

By Charles Babcock
InformationWeek
Sat Apr 12, 12:00 AM ET

Func had an interesting beginning. It began not in a whiteboard-lined conference room, but in a small coffeeshop in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Greg DeKoenigsberg, Adrian Likins, Seth Vidal, and I were discussing how to make Linux easier to manage for large install bases. That’s when we came up with the idea for Func.