The news is out that WS-I will now be absorbed by OASIS according to their PDF release. They told us back in July that it was going to happen. As far as I can tell, that’s the end of the WS-* family of specifications – there will be no more, and they are destined purely […]
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I’ve written previously about the freedom to leave, but there’s another value delivered by the liberties open source provides, one which it would even be worth paying extra to get. When your vendor changes direction, what do you do? With open source software, there’s an option proprietary software can’t offer, one that it might even […]
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The last week has provided a number of interesting – and perhaps surprising – case studies in corporate engagement with open source. This Monday’s Link Post takes a look at Microsoft and Silverlight, Symbian, Oracle and Java and Canonical and GNOME, over at ComputerWorldUK.
Filed under: Open Source | Tagged: Canonical, CWUK, GNOME, Java, Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle, Symbian, Ubuntu | Comments Off on ☝ Corporate Open Source Case Studies
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