Seminar Open Source Software (OSS) Accelerated Adoption July 21 st 2008, Langkawi, Kedah Global OSS Developments
May 19, 2015
Seminar Open Source Software (OSS) Accelerated Adoption
July 21st 2008, Langkawi, Kedah
Global OSS Developments
Unit Pemodenan Tadbiran dan Perancangan Pengurusan Malaysia 2
Contents
Mobile and Embedded Linux Major investments in OSS companies Applications and Software Development
Desktop Server Application Development
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Mobile and Embedded Linux
Increasing amount of electronic devices now run on OSS and Linux Google Android Mobile Phone
Platform – Phones coming in 2009 Nokia N800 series Internet Tablets Motorola mobile phones Palm Nova OS, Access – Linux for
Smartphones and PDAs (due 2009)
Major Investments in OSS
Recent valuation of OSS companies
MySQL purchased by Sun for USD 1.5 Billion Zimbra purchased by Yahoo for USD 350 Million JBoss (J2EE) purchased by RedHat for USD 300 million Novell Acquires Suse Linux for USD 210 million Zend Technologies (PHP), USD20 million in venture
capital funding Digium (Asterisk) – USD 13.2 million in venture capital
funding ZenOSS (Systems Monitoring), USD 4.8 million in venture
capital funding
Desktop
Linux Desktop and OSS Desktop Applications are now user friendly and easy to use Easy installation, including dual boot Automatic hardware detection (no need to hunt for drivers
anymore!), runs well on old hardware Virtual PC support, run old Windows applications safely
within virtual environment. Quality productivity and multimedia applications out of the
box Thousands of other high quality applications available, just
a click away
Desktop – Modern Features
Desktop - Email
Desktop – Digital Photos
Desktop - Music
Desktop - Scilab/Maths
Desktop - Edubuntu
Desktop – Ubuntu Studio
Server Applications
Many more quality web applications now available in several areas Internet/Network Appliances Customer Relationship Management Health Care
High quality applications that can be easily customised for immediate use, instead of building from scratch
Applications – Network Appliance
Application – GIS
Applications - CRM
Applications – Health Care
Application Development
Multiple frameworks now allow rapid development of web applicattions Common functionality such as user management and
interface Simplified design of database applications
Some popular examples CakePHP, Zend Framework (PHP) Django, Turbogears, Grok (Python) Ruby on Rails (Ruby)
Framework - CakePHP
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THANK YOU
Presenter:Jacob [email protected]
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