Seminar Open Source Software (OSS) Accelerated Adoption

July 21st 2008, Langkawi, Kedah

Global OSS Developments

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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 Thomasjacob@oscc.org.my

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