Open Standards and Open Source
  • One Laptop per Child participate | MS ports XP? | new option Pixel Qi | Mary Lou Jepsen
  • top 500 supercomputers 85% Linux | Linux Devices see what else uses Linux

  • Open Standards - definition | Standards Engineering Society paper written in 1998
  • OASIS | SGML | CGM | XML | DirXML | voiceXML | .NET | Mono | J2EE | On Dot NET from O'REILLY
  • ITU | IEEE | IETF | ecma | ISO | IEC | ISO/IEC JTC | ITIC | INCITS | ANSI | ascii | NIST
  • THE Open GROUP making standards work
  • OpenStandards.net
  • THE LINUX FOUNDATION Free Standards Group + OSDL - Safeguarding the Future of Linux through Standards
  • Linux Standard Base LSB 2.0 Feb 2004
  • POSIX The Portable Application Standards Committee of IEEE
  • Public Patent Foundation -Representing the Pulic's Interests in the Patent System
  • ODF Open Document Format Alliance | OASIS read the overview | wikipedia ODF | MS [OO]XML really | OOXML Analysis
    Open Source - read about this paradigm shift and some business models and 10 YEARS of OSI
  • Open Source Initiative
  • Open Source Software Institute focus Government
  • fsf free software foundation
  • fsfe free software foundation europe
  • AFEI.org The Association for Enterprise Integration
  • infopoints gives practical insight, demonstrates open source software to show benefits.
  • Open Source Software Educational Society understanding tradeoffs and compromises of software technologies
  • www.free-soft.org Free Software vs Open Source explainations
  • GIS open source - OpenGeospatial.org
  • GNU by Free Software Foundation
  • Mozilla Foundation FireFox Browser, Thunderbird and other utilities
  • Apache web server has over 70% market share
  • onLAMP open source web platform
  • FirebirdSQL - MySQL - PostgreSQL
  • XOOPS Object Oriented based open source portal system written in PHP
  • eclipse.org Eclipse is a universal tool platform (Development Enviroment).
  • JBoss Employee owned and venture backed by Matrix Partners, Accel Partners, and Intel.
  • gluecode.com
  • OSTG Open Source Technology Group (formally:Open Source Development Network, Inc.)
  • OSDL Open Source Development Labs
  • open source applications foundation
  • oswd open source web designs
  • MONO Open Source .NET
  • MONO and Google
  • Linux iso images iso downloads for most LINUX Distrobutions
  • SUSE Linux Distrobution
  • wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia
  • OpenSourceCMS CMS systems written in php/MySQL evaluation site.

  • Open Source Project Sites - some major development sites
  • OOo OpenOffice.org is a multi-platform office productivity suite compatible with all major file formats.
  • OOo Forums Tutorials, FAQs, and help from others
  • O3spaces Collaboration for OpenOffice (Share Point alternative)
  • Star Office from SUN based on above Open Office
  • Google Cheat Sheets services/tools reference of Google query building concepts and ideas.
  • Projity Project On Demand - also uses MS Project files! OR download OpenProj - yep, Open Project that uses MS Project files.
  • sourceforge.net open source software development site
  • FM.net maintains the Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform software
  • Novell Open Source NDK etc.
  • Novell Forge open source projects
  • IBM open source developerworks
  • IBM open source Portal
  • IBM open source links
  • Yellow Dog Linux Sony PS3, IBM CELL, apple PowerPC
  • SuperComputing Trade Shows past and present - check it out.
  • Darwin open source by apple
  • freeBSD now using POSIX
  • Google Open Source Projects
  • Google Open Source Organizations and Affiliations
  • hp open source
  • sgi open source
  • SUN open source
  • Microsoft Open Source (be careful playing with elephants ;-)
  • CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site.
  • The Center of Open Source & Government DoD DISA OMB GSA etc.
  • W3C World Wide Web Consortium of open source software
  • O'REILLY Open Source resource center PRESENTATIONS from Open Source Conference
  • Open Source Directory of applications
  • opensource.ucc.ie: resources for researchers
  • MIT open source
  • Institue for Software Research open source
  • IDA see Open Source Observatory
  • Olliance Group US Navy project
  • FlightLinux NASA project
  • usability project brings open source developers and usability experts together.
  • Power.org PowerPC open source CPU and a lot more
  • AMD Linux Driver FAQ
  • AMD ATI Server Operating System Support
  • Eric Raymond just for fun, historical interest and interesting perspectives