Articles by Author -- Alolita Sharma

The O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland this year witnessed more than 2000 hackers, geeks and entrepreneurs demonstrating the phenomenal growth of open source.

Open Source is tossing the $2.5 billion dollar enterprise content management market on its head. Let’s follow the new money trail.

To really flatten the world, the people responsible for much of today’s progress must not just drink from the golden goblets of benefits but must also commit resources and effort in action to those who cannot cross the digital divide on their own.

In a high profile ceremony, Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Chairman of the National Advisory Council of India, and Thiru Dayanidhi Maran, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology released a free CD of software containing Hindi language tools and fonts based on open source software in New Delhi this week. To the rousing applause of the audience, Thiru Maran asserted that this freely available office suite is in every way the equal of Microsoft Office.

Stuart Cohen, CEO of the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), shares the organization’s vision for the future of Linux.

At the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), true friends, supposed friends, and sworn enemies of OSS, all vied with each other to steer open source to their own advantage.

Scott Handy shares details about IBM’s goals and his insights about a collaborative economic development model for India and South Asia.

As the market for software becomes bullish, a lot of attention is being showered on new open source development tools and frameworks. The star example today is the Eclipse Foundation’s namesake IDE.

During Matt Szulik’s visit to New Delhi’s LinuxAsia 2005 in early February, technologist Alolita Sharma caught up with him and he agreed to an e-mail interview, which was published by Alolita in the March edition of Linux For You magazine. Matt covered a range of issues, emphasizing Red Hat’s unwavering commitment to support the open source community.

OSDL’s Enterprise Linux Summit held in the beginning of February in Silicon Valley, offered a gallery of snapshots from the cockpits of today’s OSS leadership.