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Netbeans, GlassFish, OpenSolaris are dead!
As you know IBM is apparently about to buy SUN Microsystems. It is interesting to see that a IBM covers almost entirely the portfolio of SUN. Why are they buying the company? Is it because SUN is cheap? Is it because IBM wants to improve OpenOffice and make it a better competitor of Microsoft Office? [...]
EU procurement rules possibly exclude Microsoft, Visa, Danone, Interbrew, BASF, Dresdner Bank AG, Siemens AG and others?
Plenty of bidders to public procurement have been guilty of serious misconduct and have been convicted to pay very high fines. Banks, telecommunications providers, retail electronic payments network, Oil and gas, Electricity gears, software vendors are the types of companies that should be excluded of procurement procedures if we follow strictly the European directive related [...]
Research for eGovernment (R4eGov), an Open Source architecture
R4egov: The technical components The architecture of the system is based on Open Source or Microsoft solutions. We selected the two competing architectures to address the needs of the partners and to ensure an interoperability of the most used multi-tier architectures on the market. Open Source Stack: Intalio|BPMS Apache foundation components WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus [...]
Will GPL die at European administration now that European Union Public Licence (EUPL) is available in 22 languages?
A small disclaimer This post is based on my understanding of legal discussions. As I’m not a lawyer I already ask you to forgive me for the mistakes. It is clear that this post will be updated depending on the input of the readers or my offline discussions with legal experts. Some introduction A few [...]
Google antitrust case: Is it time to fight against the new monopoly?
Dear Mrs Kroes, Google abuses of monopoly power (Article 82) by leveraging its near monopoly in the market of internet applications onto the markets of online Office applications. When you use GMail and receive an email containing MS Word or an MS Excel document, GMail proposes you three options (Click on the screenshot below to [...]
