OFE WORLD NEWS ROUND UP
Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner: Digital Agenda for Europe – how it will affect you
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2010-03-15
i-policy.org - Digital Agenda for Europe – how it will affect you:
This Digital Agenda is effectively my slice of the Europe 2020 strategy. It will be the work programme which I will take on with my Commission colleagues for the next five years. The Digital Agenda will consist of 6 key themes, which will have an impact on your daily life – both as businesspeople and as citizens: Read More
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Google unveils business app marketplace
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2010-03-12
Sun's head of open source leaves the company
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2010-03-11
ITPRO - Oracle has lost its third high-profile executive since it merged with Sun Microsystems in a $7.4 billion deal at the beginning of the year. Simon Phipps, previously chief open source officer, announced his departure on his blog earlier this week.
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Google Targets Microsoft With DocVerse Deal
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2010-03-11
WSJ - Stepping up its fight against Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. acquired DocVerse, a technology startup that allows people to edit Microsoft Office files online.
Google paid around $25 million for the San Francisco-based company, according to a person familiar with the matter.
In an interview, Jonathan Rochelle, group product manager for Google
Apps, said Google acquired DocVerse to make it easier for people to
transition from desktop software to online software. The latter is an
area where Google is trying to get a leg up over Microsoft, with its
Google Apps service, which includes online word-processing and
spreadsheet software. He declined to comment on the deal's price.
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London Government Accused Of Open Source Inaction
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2010-03-10
eWeek - A Green Party representative has accused the London government of
failing to fully exploit open source software, but activists say the
Greater London Authority (GLA) is doing well… at least compared to
central government. Despite a central government commitment to use open source, London’s
local government has too many plans “in the pipeline” and not enough
actually delivered, said Darren Johnson, a Green Party member of the
GLA: “It is clear that nothing is likely to happen without some major
push towards progress”.
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CeBIT 2010: Recipe for Office Migration
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2010-03-10
Linux Magazine - In the Open Source Forum at CeBIT, Florian Schiessl of the Munich city
council shared his experiences about their migration to OpenOffice. The city council of the Bavarian
capital has more than 15,000 PC workstations in 51 locations across the
city that were converted end of 2009 to OpenOffice. The migration was
based on a decision the city council made in 2003 to make the desktops
independent of particular software vendors by using Linux and open
source.
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Microsoft changes EU browser ballot shuffling
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2010-03-09
Computerworld - Responding to reports last week that its European ballot screen was not
truly randomizing the positions of the top five browsers, Microsoft
today said it has changed the algorithm that shuffles the spots.
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SCO vs. Linux: The trial can begin
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2010-03-09
The H Open - The SCO Group is to receive 2 million dollars from a group of investors headed by majority shareholder Ralph Yarro. Following an oral hearing,
the Delaware bankruptcy court dealing with SCO has approved the loan.
This means that the company now has sufficient funds for the pending
jury trial against Novell. The trial, which is to address rights to
Unix and the legality of protective licences for Linux users, is set to
start today and is expected to last three weeks.
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Mozilla lays foundation for web's next 100 years
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2010-03-08
The Register - The Mozilla Foundation is best known for Firefox, but as its head Mitchell Baker recently told us, the group's mission is not merely to produce a browser that kills Internet Explorer.
"The mission is to build certain qualities into the human experience
of the internet. We are in a reasonable spot with the browser, and
Firefox is important for the immediate future. But we've barely started
in user control," Baker said.
What exactly was Baker talking about?
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OFE Press Release - Unique Partnership Brings Open Source Software to BETT 21-12-2009
OFE Release - The EC Settlement Sends an Unambiguous Message to the Market – Lock-In is Dead 16-12-2009