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Eclipse Con 2013 is headed for France this June and is now open for registration.

Those who are interested in attending are encouraged to pre-register not only to get the financial advantage of discounted early bird rates (less €100 than the onsite ticket prices), but also to get a chance to pick out their 2 workshops of choice since all workshops slots are limited. Group discounts for open source businesses and individuals are also available.

For an idea of the workshop topics, we have listed below the topics and schedules as published on the Eclipse Con site. Participants get to attend only 1 workshop for each time slot.

Eclipse Con France 2013 Workshop Schedules:

9:00 – 10:45

1. Git & EGit beginner Workshop
2. Let’s code a JavaFX application with Eclipse
3. Advanced use of the Android Development Tools (ADT plugin)

11:15 – 13:00

1. OSLC tool integration tutorial: using linked data to support engineering lifecycle collaboration
2. Tycho: the mandatory tool to build your Eclipse based product
3. Develop a complete M2M application with Koneki and Mihini

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It is a common idea that there are people responsible behind every form of open source software. These people are more specifically accountable in creating and improving the software as a whole. Public collaboration is as well possible mainly because of the varying uses that the open source software caters to and these include company developments and personal use of websites. One concrete example is the popular open source software, WordPress. This software was in fact created by numerous developers leading to its recognizable benefits known by majority of the online users today. May it be for one’s personal use and interest of earning or for a company’s aim to widen its reach, definitely, open source software is effective and a reliable software that could contribute to said uses. Nevertheless, the continuous increase in users and developers will lead to the rapid increase of source codes that could as well widen the benefit of the software to the online community.

Open source software is considered to be an effective means of developing businesses. Particularly, such kind of source contributes to the following vital aspects in business: support, quality, and security. It supports a company or business through the adoption of the said software which then helps the business provide quality services thus paving way for profit. Open source software as well contributes to quality. This is most evident in telecommunication sectors where the software allows massive improvements both in the aspect of price and performance of its involved technologies. Lastly, secured usage goes with the use of this software. Taking for instance, window systems which are prone to virus infection, open source software assures the system’s security through update mechanisms and advisories related to security. Together with this, knowing that open source software caters to a large extent of users, system problems and issues on security are easily distinguished and fixed.

The wide reach of the open source resulted to several downsides affecting a very important aspect, reliability. There are reasons behind the idea that open source is not completely considered to be a reliable source of information and these are because of its reach and accessibility. Due to the fact that such source is open to varying and a great number of users, information or data disseminated can’t always be ensured to be coming from knowledgeable and experienced users. Its wide reach as well led to difficulty in assuring that reliable data and facts are being presented to the consumers. Another reason behind the issue on reliability is the involved accessibility. Knowing that these users are given the freedom to distribute and use such kind of software, it is not always the case that one can know where an obtained data or information came or started from. With this, it really can’t be said that the involved information is indeed reliable.

Open Source Software or OSS which refers to software that source codes are distributed with no charge or limitations on modification has spawned a significant amount of interest for the past years. It sells this approach as a business model that emphasizes quicker growth and lower overhead as well as a closer customer relationship and exposure to wider market. The concept of Open Source is based on the philosophy of free software wherein it advocates freely available source code as a fundamental right with an inclination of course to a more commercial approach including a business model and development tactic. Encompassing development methodology, this software can be incrementally enhanced and more easily tested that result to a highly dependable product.

In a move to expand their corporate might, the ever present Google has acquired the mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility. This results in their acquiring at least 17,000 patents that were owned by Motorola. There is also the issue of the pending 7,000 that are under the process of evaluation, further expanding the reach of the internet giant in this their latest foray into the mobile market.
Google has long been in the sights of other internet giants such as Apple and Microsoft when it comes to patent court cases. With the addition of these new ones, they are getting more to complain about. Now is the move aimed to simply protect their booming systems such as Android, only they can tell but experts are speculating that they are readying

It may be the previous mindset that open source was only for use with small scale implementation but with many big industries eying the potential in terms of savings of open source development it has entered the mainstream of the computing industry. Many industries such as one airline owned by a rogue British businessman has expressed great interest in applications developed on open source platforms.
Savings that amount to a fraction of what a software system used to cost can be substantial, with no need for extensive and expensive licenses. Support becomes an issue though for should the problem be with the platform, which is not owned by one company but rather a community of individuals and companies it becomes quite vague in the long run in that area.

Linux is the quintessential open source software. Talk about open source and Linux will most likely be mentioned or cited as an example. Linux has been widely described as the geek’s choice for an operating system. It has hipster cool credibility, unlike Windows or even the Mac OS. The widely regarded opinion is that Linux is hard to use and requires above-average computer skills.
This may be true when Linux was still in its infancy. But looking at the new flavors of Linux will show that it has transcended that earlier view. It is now highly usable and may even be described as being as easy as Windows in certain departments. It’s high time that computer users check out Linux.

There has been a lot of discussion on the security issues that face open source systems and many industry experts are saying that they are not founded on facts. First, the developers of open source systems did start out as a sort of backyard projects, developers looking for things to do when they were out of their desks but really couldn’t leave them.

In today’s environment however, with open source software going mainstream security has not been much of an issue due to the fact that it becomes what it was designed to be. Security is defined by the open source developer who has tools all over the internet in making their system secure from hackers. Enterprise security is available through the efforts of the many advocates of the platform such as Linux and the many other open source systems in use today.

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