Open source and the sluggish UK public sector. High performance access to file storage Workshop Confronting their rapidly shrinking budgets, public sector bean counters must imagine that someone somewhere has been casting Chinese curses about living in interesting times.
Because when money gets tight, things sure do get interesting. You would think that at times like these open-source deployments would be the obvious solution. Open source has to be considered for public-sector IT projects and with no upfront licensing costs it ought to be a shoe-in. But it doesn’t seem to work that way. “I’d like to think open source has a value other than as a negotiating tool,” she says. “But it is a bit of a chicken and egg situation. Amour toujours Open source has not taken off in the UK the way it has in France and Germany, for example, because there is less government support for it. Bite-sized contracts And it looks like it might happen. Another suggestion is to spend more time explaining the benefits of open source. Microsoft and Google jointly sue GeoTag Inc. in order to invalidate a patent asserted against more than 300 entities. Google and Microsoft have joined forces to take down a Texas company's geotagging patent that they claim has been used in lawsuits against more than 300 entities, many of which are customers of the two companies.
Microsoft and Google want to protect Google Maps and Bing Maps against this kind of activity. A Google VP recently tweeted about two turkeys that don't make an eagle. In this case, we are seeing two giants who separate their fierce competition in various fields from a common interest in curbing trollish behavior.
The patent, US Patent No. 5,930,474, is entitled "Internet organizer for accessing geographically and topically based information". It was applied for in 1996 and granted in 1999. I have put together a list of at least 397 (!) 11 03 01 GeoTag Defendants The asserted patent has changed hands several times. GeoTag, Inc.' This isn't the first time for the two companies to side against a patent aggressor. London Stock Exchange Woes not Linux's Fault. The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has had better times.
First, it had reoccurring problems with its integration with large-stock market data players such as Thomson Reuters Eikon, Interactive Data, and Morningstar. Then, adding insult to injury, Google rightfully flagged the Exchange's site as a malware danger, thanks to a third-party advertiser that was hosting malicious software.
None of this had anything to do with the LSE switching to Linux as the basis of its new trading system. I mention that because I've gotten several obnoxious e-mail messages claiming that all of LSE's troubles are Linux's fault. March2011.pdf (application/pdf Object)