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More and more end users and governments are realizing how important open standards are to their technology policies. Denmark is the latest.

Jim, our executive director, will be delivering a keynote at Gartner’s Open Source Summit. He’ll be speaking on how open standards can prevent vendor lock in, even in the world of open source. This is an excellent show for end users. Let us know if you’ll be attending and what to meet.

ZDNET Asia recently published this article on Microsoft’s view of open source software.

“One of the beauties of the open-source model is that you get a lot of flexibility and componentization. The big downside is complexity,” Ryan Gavin, Microsoft’s director of platform strategy, said on the sidelines of the company’s worldwide partner conference in Boston last month.

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The last few months have been incredibly busy and fruitful for the FSG.

Highlights of our recent successes include: