Open Source
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E-Commerce News: Software: South African Government Adopts Open Source Policy
“South Africa announced Thursday its plan to use open source software on government-run computer systems.”
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JBoss founder departs Red Hat | CNET News.com
“As expected, JBoss founder Marc Fleury has left Red Hat less than a year after the Linux seller acquired his open-source Java server software company.”
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With Fleury Gone, Red Hat Shifts To New Leaders For JBoss – Industries News by InformationWeek
“Open source projects can flounder without strong leadership. JBoss’ new team must keep that from happening.”
Graphics
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Bricks’n'Tiles – Easy Creation of Architectural Textures
“With Bricks’n'Tiles you can create perfectly seamless brick textures in photorealistic quality in a couple of minutes.”
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“Our texture library has over 3400 free to download, free to use, high-resolution textures.”
ODF and Office Documents
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Grass roots activism around ODF.
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Erwin Tenhumberg: ODF/OpenOffice.org report published by the Finnish government
Moreon ODF adoption: “Negative experiences in the migration have been rare during the first two months of 2007.”
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Goldblog – Google Apps Premier – The Office Battle Is On – Corey Goldberg
“We actually have quite a cool phenomenon brewing, with Open Office striking from one side and online office apps striking from the other.”
I found another bit of FLOSS not long ago http://www.aplusdev.org/ , available under the GPL. This from Morgan Stanley, who as far as I know are a perfectly normal profit-seeking US corporation; just not in the business of selling software. Not quite sure why they GPL’d it rather than leaving it in-house; you’d have to ask them. Maybe it’s a kind of advertisement for their services business.
Now, whether this destroys the business case for IBM APL http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/apl/ , IBM Lotus 1-2-3 http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/products/product2.nsf/wdocs/sshome , and/or Microsoft Excel, I don’t know.
But nevertheless, it’s there, and it can’t be ‘un-invented’.
And if anybody thinks that OpenOffice ‘calc’ http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html could do with a bit of enhancement, I assume they are welcome to take the source code for ‘aplus’ and attempt to integrate the two.