Micromax plans to build its own OS across Platforms, says report

ust like other OSes, this is forked Android version which is taking advantage of Google’s open source platform.

The company’s software team in Bengaluru believed to develop the forked Android OS and more than 75 people in design team was acquired from Nokia’s R&D in Beijing as per the report.

“The first smartphones with the new OS will be available by the end of this financialyear and they will be affordably priced,” says Micromax’s co-founder Vikas Jain.

Similar to most of its competitors, Micromax also realized that it started shifting the focuses on software. The company believed that it is closer to Indian audiences and also has better understanding with the Indian market.

Now, Micromax is enjoying second spot in the Indian handset market and it also closed the ‘fiscal 2015 with around Rs.11,000 crores of revenue’ and sells more than 3 million phones in a month. Last year Micromax teamed up with Cynaogen and sell phones running on Cyanogen OS under the Yu brand.

Aghreni's HRIS portal product goes live with the client

Aghreni Technologies first product web based HR information system portal targeted at the needs of Small and Medium enterprises in automating the HR processes, goes live with the client on 1st Feb 2009.

Aghreni’s HR Intranet portal and applications is a corporate portal that provides a central place for all of organization employee needs.

Aghreni's Intranet Portal and Applications is a centralized and yet modularized portal and application framework built on open source technologies that provides organization with a set of self-service applications for processes and procedures, news, calendar, project time sheet management, employee leave management, employee expense reimbursements, e-booking of facilities, asset management, audit, checklists and other applications needed on a daily basis by employees, administrators, managers and management in the organization.

The Intranet Portal and Application framework is built on open source technologies, to minimize cost of acquisition and support. It can be easily customized for each organization needs. It is modular to allow new applications to be added. It is web enabled, for easy accessibility for employees working from remote locations


A few key features are listed below:

* Easy simple interface and login based access. Can be accessed for any location.
* All applications accessed from the intranet portal.
* E-mail based alert notification to serve as remainders.
* Reporting for Management and approving authorities to enable decision making.
* Content Management System for Organization policies, procedures and handbooks.
* Project Based Time Sheet Application to track employee time.
* Employee Leave Management Application with approval workflow.
* Employee Expense Reimbursement Application with approval workflow.


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Top 9 Open Source Stories of 2008

The year 2008 showed open source - both in the form of Linux specifically and as software development model generally - coming into the mainstream like never before.

Here are the top highlights of the past year in the open source arena.

1. The Rise (and falling price) of the notebook with linux power and budget price
2. Sun's slow spiraling towards Nova through OpenOffice, OpenSolaris, MySQL and commitment to open source solutions
3. The Release of Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 10
4. The Release of Google Chrome browser
5. The Release of Google Android Operating system
6. Nokia Picks up Symbian and pledged to make it available for free under the terms of the Eclipse Public License
7. Courts Rule that Copyrights on Open Source Source are enforceable
8. Debian's Open SSL Blunder
9. SCO Loses to Novell


Information Week has published top 10 open source stories of 2008.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/open_source/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212300206&pgno=1&queryText=&isPrev=

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Quickly install a Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP server on Ubuntu

Jack Wallen, Jr. provides some quick and easy steps to installing a LAMP server on a running Ubuntu machine.

For detailed steps, visit URL

http://www.zdnetasia.com/techguide/opensource/0,39044899,62049585,00.htm?scid=nl_z_tgos

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Enterprises Turning to Open Source Technologies and Solutions

According to OpenLogic.Inc - a Broomfield, Colorado-based provider of open source software solutions, there is a growing interest among enterprise buyers, using open source technologies to save costs.

One-third of those companies polled said they already have replaced proprietary application servers with open source application servers.

Enterprise IT buyers would most likely to replace proprietary operating systems with Linux Variants, Application and web servers with JBoss, Apache, Tomcat servers, databases with MySQL, Postgress, and development tools with open source technologies.

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Microsoft embraces open source with jQuery

Microsoft recently announced plans to adopt jQuery as part of its ASP.NET web forms and ASP.NET Model View Controller framework. The delivery model is the Microsoft AJAX Framework, which is a combination of ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery. The best features of both will be utilized to provide a framework for building powerful AJAX applications.

With the adoption of jQuery, it will be fully integrated into future versions of Microsoft's flagship development environment Visual Studio. The integration will include IntelliSense support, making it much easier to utilize the jQuery library. jQuery will make its first appearance in ASP.NET MVC.

Microsoft has a given a big boost to open source development community in developing applications for greater adoptability.

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Why open source startups are in better shape?

Bill Snyder writes why the nuclear winter doesn't affect open source startup software companies as much for other companies.

He says that many open source companies didn't overbuild in the first place, second the segments like virtualization, cloud computing and open source have a critical advantage and the third open source is still seen as a way to cut costs.

But for now, at least, open source companies that have already been funded and are beginning to generate cash, are something of a shelter from the storm sweeping Silicon Valley.

For detailed article, visit URL http://weblog.infoworld.com/tech-bottom-line/archives/2008/11/nuclear_winter.html



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