Siemens' outsourcing unit is snapping up some of South Africa's brightest open source minds as it readies to offer large-scale open source services to clients. Going, as it does, head-to-head with the likes of IBM and T-Systems, the company is hoping its open source strategy will find a new niche in an already highly-competitive market.
...runs either Linux/Windows XP
One of the highlights of this release is the work on saving and loading Open Document Format documents, especially for the text shape, thanks to the sponsoring of Girish Ramakrishnan by the Dutch NLNet organisation. Girish has added scores of tests to check for ODF compliancy.
I've been engaged in free software -- which later became "open source" in 1998 -- for almost two decades. I understand the community's skepticism when it comes to corporate approaches to open source. I've seen simple open source concepts -- such as free distribution, source code that can be modified, open licensing, and others -- distorted by companies looking to sell products and recast their image as open.
A clause in Microsoft's guidelines lets computer makers install Windows XP Professional -- but not the more common and less expensive Windows XP Home -- on new PCs at a customer's request when those machines are ordered with Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate.
One mixup, with potentially vast effect, apparently belongs to the unintentional category and gained wide currency this week: The spell-checker in Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail software recommends that users replace the word "Obama" with "Osama."
You want to compete with Google. Aggressively going after Yahoo! shows that you're smart enough to know you can't do it alone. Go on a shopping spree now, before antitrust regulators close down the mall.
So far the stock has hit a 52-week low of $26.87 and 52-week high of $37.50.
Comments
RyanT
2008-06-14 02:18:48
Ah crap, Firefox 3 just did the same :(
I wander if Obama has ever accidentally spellchecked (and changed) his own name?