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• Expect more open source enterprise apps this year: analysts

  Open source Could be on the short-list when it comes to application-buying decisions in 2007.

• French politicians to get free software on desktops

  Deputies elected to the French National Assembly in the next legislative session will find open source software on the desktop PCs provided for their use.

• France pins growth hopes on Parisian open source software

  The French government plans to make the region around Paris a centre of excellence for open-source software development, the French Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry, Thierry Breton, says.

• Open source stacks not answer: analysts

  Many vendors are offering open source application stacks as an alternative to integrated sets of proprietary applications that have long locked users into the technology of a single supplier.

• Almost open source at Unisys – and with support

  There is a big shift in the ICT industry in the way applications are developed and deployed, says Hans Sparkes, Unisys’ worldwide head of enterprise open source.

• Open source start-ups speak out

  Entrepreneurs attending a recent forum in Germany showed how they plan to use clever open source products — commercially — to compete with proprietary software companies.

• Redmond gives ground on multiple fronts after fight

  Microsoft has used many slogans in its 30 years of existence. Remember “Where do you want to go today?”

• OASIS: making e-government work more effectively

  Open standards are crucial to e-government, says Patrick Gannon, president and chief executive of OASIS (Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards).

• Microsoft’s open source management play

  A couple of weeks ago, I took BEA to task for insinuating that the open source community wasn’t capable of delivering good management tools for its software. A few readers leapt to the company’s defence: BEA is right, they said. The management capabilities of open source software are often pretty poor.

• Microsoft and Novell announce groundbreaking Linux deal

  Novell and Microsoft chief executives Ron Hovsepian and Steve Ballmer today announced a wide-ranging interoperability deal that will allow the companies' Linux and Windows platforms to work together.

• Why Opera isn’t planning to go open source

  Suppose there was a software category so ubiquitous that virtually everyone used it and anyone could get the software for free. Suppose, also, that the software was highly standards-based, so much so that it did not require any patented or proprietary technologies to work. That software would be a perfect candidate for open source, right?

• Sun to release open source Java in weeks

  Sun Microsystems is just weeks away from releasing the first part of the Java code into the open source world, says Matt Thompson, director of the Sun Developer Network. Thompson wouldn’t disclose an exact date, but says that the first parts of the code — such as the Java C programme compiler and the Hotspot virtual machine — will be released “literally within weeks”.

• MAF ditches Novell in switch to MS

  The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is migrating from Novell to Microsoft for its back-end systems, following the lead of many other government agencies.

• BEA chief’s misguided missives on open source

  You could hear Rob Levy’s teeth chattering all the way from Bangalore. The CTO of BEA Systems must be scared out of his wits. How else to explain the mishmash of half-truths and misleading facts he told the IDG News Service during a tour of BEA’s India-based R&D facility recently?

• TechTonics to represent Open Text

  On the back of confirmation that Open Text’s bid to acquire Hummingbird has got the green light, TechTonics has entered into an agreement to represent Open Text in New Zealand. The deal puts TechTonics, which represents Hummingbird, into a strong position in the document and enterprise content management market.