TheOpenAnalyst » Asia http://www.theopenanalyst.com Open Source | Open Principles | Open World Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:51:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Business Processes Using Open Source Increases http://www.theopenanalyst.com/165/business-processes-using-open-source-increases/ http://www.theopenanalyst.com/165/business-processes-using-open-source-increases/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:28:00 +0000 TheOpenAnalyst http://www.theopenanalyst.com/?p=165 Adoption of open-source software (OSS) is becoming pervasive, with 85 percent of companies surveyed currently using OSS in their enterprises and the remaining 15 percent expecting to in the next 12 months, according to a recent Gartner survey.

The survey was conducted in May and June 2008 and included 274 end-user organizations across various countries and markets in Asia/Pacific, Europe and North America. Respondents were evenly distributed across manufacturing, education, financial services and service companies and included a cross section of small, medium and large organizations.

Business Processes Using Open Source Increases | Trends | Enterpriser

]]> http://www.theopenanalyst.com/165/business-processes-using-open-source-increases/feed/ 0 Asian-African countries committed to using open source software http://www.theopenanalyst.com/47/asian-african-countries-committed-to-using-open-source-software/ http://www.theopenanalyst.com/47/asian-african-countries-committed-to-using-open-source-software/#comments Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:37:04 +0000 TheOpenAnalyst http://www.theopenanalyst.com/?p=47 Indonesia and other countries in Asia and Africa are determined to strengthen their commitment to using Open Source (OS) software instead of licensed software which was mostly being monopolized by big companies, a research and technology official said.

The resolve to use OS software would also be reaffirmed in an Asia-Africa Conference on Open Source (AAOS) to be held November 18 to 19, 2008 in Jakarta, Prof Dr Engkos Koswara, a senior advisor to the research and technology minister, said here Thursday.

Asian-African countries committed to using open source software | ANTARA

]]> http://www.theopenanalyst.com/47/asian-african-countries-committed-to-using-open-source-software/feed/ 0 Asia set to ‘give back’ to open source http://www.theopenanalyst.com/104/open-source-and-the-fate-of-the-world/ http://www.theopenanalyst.com/104/open-source-and-the-fate-of-the-world/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:53:20 +0000 TheOpenAnalyst http://www.theopenanalyst.com/open-source-and-the-fate-of-the-world/ Asia is in the middle of a mass adoption wave of open source technology, and the floodgates of innovation will open following this wave in two to three years, according to open source vendors.

Following recent remarks made by MySQL co-founder, David Axmark, on Asia’s lack of contribution back to the open source community, fellow industry spokespeople were decidedly more optimistic about the region’s role to play in the open source ecosystem.

Asia set to ‘give back’ to open source | Software – ZDNet Asia

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