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Here’s a BBC quality radio program called “New Wave Computingâ€. The program was broadcasted on Radio 4 and has Peter Day as host.
Some Interesting interviews with some Open Source folks are worth to listen.
Written by j.pereira on January 16th, 2007 with no comments.
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Yes! Your eyes are ok. I did write, in the title of this post, “Microsoft Enterprise Open Sourceâ€!!! I came across this company’s site, where they believe they have an Open Source solution. 
I confess, I didn’t have much research on that thing, but I found this :
Aras Innovator® enterprise open source software solutions deploy quickly and adapt easily while maintaining upgradeability resulting in a significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership than conventional enterprise systems.
Note the use of “open source†in their statement. I gone through the site trying to figure out in which licence they are releasing their enterprise software. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any more reference to open source that the one in the front page and the one I cited above.
I did also have a look at their forum, where they have a total of 21 posts in a total of 12 threads (although the statistics of the forum point to 24 threads and 28 posts)
See bellow:
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It’s harder to get a good community for any open source project, but being built on Microsoft technology, I think its get harder, even impossible. Let’s see…
Regards,
JP
Written by j.pereira on January 16th, 2007 with 3 comments.
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Yes, Fortress name’s derive from the very old Fortran, which was (and still is) mainly used for mathematical applications, such as testing mathematical models. Fortran is an 50 years old programming language devoted to High Performance Computing (HPC). Sun now is writing another page on its programming language history. Sun researchers are using the lessons learned from Java and are creating a new language for HPC. Although they’re saying that Fortress is a general purpose programming language, I don’t believe that it will be as they want to it to be. If Fortress really sees the sunrise, it will be in HPC domain and not in general purpose domains.
Sun is taking an Open Source (BSD License) approach for this new language, as they’re doing now for Java. I’m sure this will bring Fortress out to the world easily.
By releasing Fortress as open source shows that Sun is now seeing the advantages of Open Source. Many other companies should be doing the same.
Written by j.pereira on January 14th, 2007 with no comments.
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Não é que acabo de escrever o meu último post e deparo-me com esta notÃcia no meu Feed Aggregator?!
Nem de propósito…
Written by j.pereira on January 3rd, 2007 with no comments.
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Já aqui tinha feito notar esta notÃcia, mas uma vez que estou a ser bombardeado pela mesma no meu Feed Aggregator, tenho de, aqui, a comentar novamente.
Para toda a comunidade de Open Source esta é uma notÃcia que não se cansam de ler, mas de qualquer das formas vou voltar a falar nela.
Do meu ponto de vista, o Open Source está a ter uma visibilidade inquestionável na Europa. Talvez porque o meu Feed Agrregator não pára de me dar deste tipo de notÃcias? Ora, mas sem me querer alongar muito, a notÃcia, de que vos escrevo, é sobre a iniciativa, que partiu dos administradores públicos de Amesterdão, em testar software Open Source de modo a poder avaliar a sua introdução em alguns departamentos públicos.
As justificações para se desviarem mais da Micro$oft, e dos seus contratos milionários, são aquelas que se têm vindo a falar já há muito tempo na comunidade OS. Os contratos milionários que a Microsoft tem com a função publica está, finalmente, a ser alvo de questões, fundamentais, por parte dos governos Europeus que estão, como se espera, de olho numa economia mais saudável para os seus paÃses.
Não apenas em Amesterdão esta iniciativa está a decorrer. A iniciativa está também a ser acompanhada por outras cidades europeias como Viena (Ãustria), Eindhoven, Groningen, Hague, Munich e Paris. Dou os meus parabéns aos administradores públicos portugueses por poder incluir, aqui, também o nome de Lisboa, com a iniciativa a partir do ministério da justiça.
Estas notÃcias só vêm confirmar algumas tendências para 2007 como sendo o ano de viragem para o Open Source.
Será que vai ser durante 2007 que soluções baseadas em Open Source vão ser vistas como uma alternativa real, financeiramente atractiva e madura, às soluções tradicionais em TIC?
Written by j.pereira on January 3rd, 2007 with 1 comment.
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Before going to the party, I just want to wish a good 2007 for the Open Source software and Open Source business.
I’ve reading a lot of about (here is an example) the trends regarding open source and all bloggers believes, as do I, that 2007 will be a big year for Open Source in general.
It will be thrill quest on desktop Open Source, however.
Computer assemblers, soon or later (if they haven’t already) will realize the benefits of deploying *nix based OS. Look at Mac and its Mac OS!!
Written by j.pereira on December 30th, 2006 with no comments.
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Founded in 2001, by Jimmy Wales, the Wikipedia now counts with around 3.7 billion articles in 200 different languages. The Wikipedia project goes beyond an Open Source project, but rather an open community of knowledge. The essence of Wikipedia is that everyone can contribute (with the effortless process of editing a document) with his/her knowledge about any topic.
The fact that Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, writing about anything, put a bit of controversial weight on Wikipedia’s shoulders. Many experts - and non-experts - advocate that Wikipedia can’t be used as a trusted source of knowledge. Why we ask? The answer is obvious. Every one can write anything about any topic. Even I could write an Wikipedia entry reporting that I’m the new president of United States of America (I wouldn’t do that because I’m not an asshole, so I’m not entitled to be president of the EUA ).
Given this, and all the controversial talk around Wikipedia, the Nature, a weekly journal of science, set up an investigation about the accuracy of both Wikipedia and, the well know encyclopaedia, Britannica. From Wikipedia and Britannica, 42 articles were chosen and given to independent experts on the subjects. The articles were analysed by experts in order to find errors on these articles and then measure the accuracy of Wikipedia and Britannica.
The results? They were amazing.
The Britannica is head to head with Wikipedia. From the 42 articles were found 3 errors for Britannica and 4 errors for Wikipedia. So, you can still say that Britannica is more accurate, but wait. At the day after the results get public, Wikipedia community fixed the errors found by during the test, while Britannica has to wait till next edition :) If the test runs again the day after the results, Wikipedia would beat the Britannica for sure.
Still thinking that Wikipedia can’t be a trusted source of knowledge?
Written by j.pereira on December 27th, 2006 with no comments.
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Just to spot a nice resource for all Open Source lovers.
Open Source Conversations is a site where you can find useful podcasts about open source related topics. For me these are the best podcasts about Open Source you can find around.
I Usually download the podcasts and listen to them while driving my car in long distance trips. It’s truly excellent and addicting.
Written by j.pereira on December 26th, 2006 with no comments.
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City of Amesterdam is planning to invest, in the first half of 2007, 200.000 € (400.000 US$), testing open source software to use in two administrative districts. The initial interest of city of Amesterdam is Linux based Operating systems and Document Software, to replace Windows and Office, respectively.
This will lead to a weaker contract with Microsoft and give the public administration the advantage to be unlocked from the software suppliers (read Microsoft).
Other European cities, like Munich (Germany) and Viena (Austria) are switching partially to open source, however, like the city of Amesterdam, they will not give up entirely from Microsoft software :(
City of Amesterdam point, as big advantages of using Open Source, the following facts:
To this initiative, nine German cities have joined also, including Haarlem, Groningen, Eindhoven and Nijmegen. These cities had signed a manifesto called “manifesto for open software in governmentâ€. (I couldn’t find a link to this, sorry. If you know, then tell me)
Just hope that other European countries join the initiative.
Have a nice 2007 with much good news on Open Source.
Written by j.pereira on December 26th, 2006 with no comments.
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So, do you think you know Java? I’m sure you know. But do you know the internals? Yeah, I’m also pretty sure you know. Ok, but do you really now Java programming to that point you’re not afraid to test your skills on java programming?
Jonh Rizzo and Nicolas Brasseur have given an opportunity to the community to test their own skills on Java. www.javablackbelt.com is indeed, from my point of view, a great tool for Java developer’s community. There are a lot of exams and tests you can do to assess your skills on java. A great idea, undeniably, is to have a community of certifications on Java, especially after Java goes Open Source.
A lot of knowledge around java, including Hibernate, Java 5, Ant, Log4j, JUnit and lots of more Java oriented tools and technologies, is what you can find in www.javablackbelt.com.
The tests and exams are provided by the community, reviewed by the community and approved by the community. By being involved in this community of Java certifications you have a great chance to prove that you are a real Java developer.
Take a test and participate by submitting and reviewing questions, and learn the amazing programming language that is Java.
You can find all the information on the site, but as an overview, you always start as a white belt and if you are really good, you can be a black belt java developer. Can you take the challenge? Try on http://www.javablackbelt.com
Written by j.pereira on December 23rd, 2006 with no comments.
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