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Google: Choose Android, save 20 percent

06/16/2008  
Relevance: 6.45
Phone makers who adopt Google's Android platform may see a 20 percent drop in manufacturing costs just from saving on software costs, according to Android's co-founder. Andy Rubin, who is also Google's director of mobile platforms, told the press Monday that software costs represent about 20 percent of a phone's manufacturing costs, so a manufacturer would theoretically save on that by adopting the free and open source Android platform.
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Unsinkable Vista?

11/11/2006  
Relevance: 5.13
Vista doesn't need anti-viral software? That's what Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's platforms and services division, said in a recent phone conference on Vista's release to manufacturing (RTM).
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Report: Bugzilla Makes Big Trucks Better

10/10/2006  
Relevance: 4.79
Adapting the popular Open Source Bugzilla framework proved a great way to track the Komatsu manufacturing process. Rob Reilly files this report on a unique solution to a long-standing problem.
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Open source unlocks options for many businesses

09/29/2006  
Relevance: 4.66
When Tony Losey came to the 3Sixty Group in 2003 he saw that, like many small companies, the manufacturing firm didn't have much in the way of advanced systems. It was running an old ERP system on machines that dated back to 1992, there was no company intranet and executives had pushed the company's Web site, a key business driver, to an outside hosting provider.
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Sun Cuts 6,000 as Wall St. Cloud Spreads to Tech

11/15/2008  
Relevance: 4.63
Beleaguered server and software maker Sun Microsystems said Friday that it will lay off as many as 6,000 employees, or 18 percent of its worldwide workforce, over the next year. Sun's announcement appears to confirm fears that the economic turmoil that has overtaken the financial services and manufacturing sector has now spread to the technology sector.
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OpenMFG sidles up to the GPL with OpenRPT

01/08/2007  
Relevance: 4.59
OpenMFG, founded in 2001, provides enterprise resource planning software to small and mid-sized manufacturing companies. It's one of those businesses whose proprietary product is"built on" open source. But OpenMFG is beginning to put its money where its mouth is: recently the company released one of its modules, OpenRPT, under the GPL.
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Lenovo ditches Linux

09/09/2008  
Relevance: 4.56
Chinese PC manufacturing giant Lenovo, which years ago purchased IBM's personal computer business, appears to have quietly stopped offering Linux as a pre-installation option. None of the company's 49 ThinkPad and IdeaPad notebook models -- nor its many ThinkCenter and IdeaCenter desktops -- can currently be ordered with Linux.
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OpenMoko open sources handset hardware

03/05/2008  
Relevance: 4.51
OpenMoko, developer of open source Linux mobile phones, has open sourced the casing of its handset, releasing the CAD files so anyone with a computer-aided manufacturing technology can create their own versions to fit the OpenMoko electronics.
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Report: Open Source Is More Than Software Alone

12/02/2006  
Relevance: 4.49
Open source development is influencing phenomena far beyond software, including manufacturing processes, classroom teaching, and the types of media now emerging online, said CollabNet CTO Brian Behlendorf, best-selling author Thomas L. Friedman, and other members of a panel of business and technology visionaries.
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Microsoft readies XP for One Laptop Per Child computer

07/29/2008  
Relevance: 4.46
Microsoft has quietly released to manufacturing a tweaked version of Windows XP to run on the One Laptop Per Child XO computer. Microsoft's marketing and communications wonk James Utzschneider offered some detail about its forthcoming release in a blog post late last week.
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