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  • Malaysian Government Open Source Software Conference (MyGOSSCON)
    Saturday, November 1, 2008 - 17:05
     

    The Malaysian Government Open Source Software Conference (MyGOSSCON) is an event held to support the Phase II - Accelerated Adoption. Following the success of the first MyGOSSCON in 2007, this popular event is back again this year to bring you the latest trends in OSS. In line with the Phase II targets, the theme for this year is Accelerated OSS Adoption for Innovative Public Service Delivery.

  • Malaysia’s premier Free and Open Source Software Event 2008
    Saturday, November 1, 2008 - 16:57

    FOSS.my 2008 is Malaysia’s premier Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) event. Whilst this is our first go at it, we aim for this to be an annual event bringing together professionals and enthusiasts from Malaysia, Singapore, Asia and the rest of the world for a two day grassroots driven FOSS conference.

  • Sun to Acquire MySQL
    Saturday, December 1, 2007 - 17:20

    Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world's fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market. Today's announcement reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor

  • Sun dangles carrot at OSS developers
    Saturday, December 1, 2007 - 17:33

    In a bid to encourage more development of open-source software, network computing infrastructure vendor Sun Microsystems has kicked off a rewards programme for developers of such programs. The company is offering US$1mil (RM3.5mil) in prize money to software developers at six open-source technology communities worldwide — GlassFish, NetBeans, OpenJDK, OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris and OpenSPARC. No details were released on how the software developers would collect the reward and representatives of Sun Microsystems said more announcements on the programme would be made next year.

  • Webmasters Malaysia Gathering 2007
    Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 22:28

    The event was organized by Webmasters Malaysia and sponsored by Exabytes. Najib from xWeb was one of the speakers who talked about Drupal. Other speakers were Gobala Krishnan - internet marketer spoke about how to start a successful internet business and Hanson Toh spoke about Google’s efforts in Malaysia. There were forum members, bloggers & web developers attended the gathering.

  • BarCamp Malaysia 2008 (26th to 27th July)
    Friday, July 20, 2007 - 22:58

    Directly quoted from Wikipedia: BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. There are many topics being discussed in this events, among others ..