Fwd: City opens center to promote business possibilities for Linux

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Subject: City opens center to promote business possibilities for Linux
Date: January 26, 2005 02:20 pm
From: Carl Chaplin <carlchaplin-fVOoFLC7IWo at public.gmane.org>
To: "Mr. Carl Chaplin" <CarlChaplin-fVOoFLC7IWo at public.gmane.org>

http://159.54.226.83/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050126/BUSINESS/501260320/1
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Oregon is new hub of open software


City opens center to promote business possibilities for Linux


 BY WILLIAM MCCALL
The Associated Press



January 26, 2005


BEAVERTON -- Linux has found a second home in Oregon.


Building on the arrival last year of Linux developer Linus Torvalds,
 officials in the Portland suburb of Beaverton on Tuesday announced the
 creation of a business center to help translate open-source software into
 tools and products to build new companies.


Gov. Ted Kulongoski joined Beaverton Mayor Rob Drake to welcome entrepreneurs
to the new Open Technology Business Center with hopes that they can take
advantage of Linux software that is taking over an increasing share of the
multibillion-dollar market once dominated by Microsoft Corp.


"I truly believe this is the new technology wave," Kulongoski said after a
speech to mark the opening of the center.


Torvalds moved from California's Silicon Valley to Portland last summer to
join the Open Source Development Labs, funded by high-tech companies to
develop and tailor Linux for various computer systems, ranging from retailers
to government, financial services, universities and utilities.


Torvalds created Linux in 1991 while a university student in Finland. The
core, or kernel, of the software can be used as a building block for more
sophisticated or customized computer programming that initially was
distributed for free and now is seen as a low-cost alternative to Microsoft
products.


"The remarkable growth of Linux, one of the most successful examples of open
technology to date, has created opportunity for all sorts of new businesses,"
said Stuart Cohen, CEO of the Open Source Development Labs.


Unlike the programming codes that Microsoft keeps secret, Linux code is
 shared globally and can be modified by individual users. It quickly found
 its way into servers, the computers that connect and store data for
 individual desktop computers, but it increasingly is being offered by
 computer
manufacturers for desktop machines.


The new open-technology center was funded with a $1.2 million grant from the
city of Beaverton.

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