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Sixth Australian Open Source Symposium

The sixth Australian Open Source Symposium (AOSS 6) will be held in Perth on Thursday October 28th, 2004. The goals of AOSS6 are - to promote the sharing of information and experience relating to OSS - to give the OSS community a place to interact - to nurture and harness synergies between OSS projects - to raise the awareness and credibility of OSS within the broader ICT community More here...

OPEN STANDARDS: Standards for e-business in Asia Pacific

OASIS (the world's leading ebusiness open standards consortium) is organising the following conference: Open Standards Conference Brochure

$110 billion revenue for Linux in Taiwan

TAIWANESE GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS, as well as its industrial and academic organisations, have recently started a plan, which will help the island's industries using Linux software to turn out up to an NT$110 billion revenue in three years. The goal includes getting software companies using Linux to generate an NT$10 billion revenue, and the hardware industry to gain an NT$100 billion revenue. http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2004/08/19/taiwanese-bodies-...

Enterprise-scale ERP on Linux to manage 700,000 staff

Postal officials hired SAP's professional services group to oversee the transition to a new HR system. The postal agency will run the new software on mainframe Z990 processors and Linux SUSE, both from IBM Corp. Read the full article here