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Open source to take over mainstream IT

By Peter Judge, ZDNet UK
Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:40 AM
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62049001,00.htm

Within the next 12 years, 40 percent of IT jobs will be related to open source, and open source-based cloud computing will be solving many problems in the real world, open source advocates have predicted.

Harnessing the power of open source

Source: http://www.ida.gov.sg/InSG/Nov08/e2e.html

Cisco Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Jabber

Jabber's Presence and Messaging Software to Enhance Cisco's Collaboration Portfolio

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Sept. 19, 2008 - Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held Jabber, Inc., a provider of presence and messaging software. Based in Denver, Jabber will work with Cisco to enhance the existing presence and messaging functions of Cisco's Collaboration portfolio.

Red Hat Acquires Qumranet for US$107 Million

Open source goliath Red Hat, said Friday that it will be buying over Qumranet, a privately held company behind KVM ( Kernel Virtual Machine) virtualisation technology for USD 107 million.

Besides the KVM, the buyout will also include Qumranet's SolidICE offering, a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), which Red Hat hopes will advance its efforts to transform the virtualization market and drive comprehensive virtualization technology and management solutions into every system.

Sun Sponsors Software Freedom Day, Increases Open Source Awareness

Sun Microsystems, Tuesday announced a global call to action for organizations and consumers to embrace open source software as part of its sponsorship of Software Freedom Day (SFD).

Held on September 20, 2008, SFD is an annual worldwide celebration of free and open source software and is designed to educate the public, to celebrate the virtues of open source software and encourage its use.

One Nation: Unity for Software Freedom. Celebrating Software Freedom Day 2008 in the Philippines

Microsoft tactics push India toward Linux

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.

Open Source is Entering the Enterprise Mainstream, Survey Shows

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

May 30, 2008CIO— 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").

Fedora 9 Delivers Cutting-Edge Features and Enhancements to Community

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

First Philippine Open Source Summit set in Cebu

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.

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