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Siemens gets serious about open source

http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2489

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Previously Siemens was a wholly Microsoft house and there was no
inclination to offer open source,” he says. Recently, however, Siemens
identified open source as having a “very viable business case”.

With the South African government making very public declarations of
interest in open source software, Honigwachs could well be on the right
track. “Open source gives us a competitive advantage,” he says.

Siemens already has in place partnerships and agreements with Red Hat,
Canonical and enterprise content management suite providers Alfresco.

With a Red Hat partnership in place Siemens will also be looking to use
JBoss in place of WebSphere for its middleware needs.

On the desktop, Honigwachs says that the unit plans to offer either Red
Hat or Ubuntu. “The advantage of having both Red Hat desktops and
servers is the ability to have a single management tool. But in
government there is a preference for Ubuntu. We like Ubuntu and we have
good quality skills on Ubuntu,” he says referring to the likes of the
recently-appointed Ross Addis. A long-time Linux advocate, Addis was
instrumental in establishing Impi Linux - both the original version and
later the Ubuntu-based version.