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Current Newswire: Insight into GNU/Linux boot process Reviewed: OpenOffice.org 3.2 Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS On CentOS 5.4 Open Source is Not a Democracy Open Source Gets Political Open source and the Morevna project Android market going down the drain? All Done With Ubuntu Google Offers Migration Tool for Microsoft Exchange Data OpenOffice.org Project of the Month: the Irish community Financial Application Engineer (IL) Next Step Systems US-IL-Chicago Post A Job | Post A Resume TechCentral: RM140m Mavcap Boost for Open Source Oct 29, 2003, 02 :30 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (5209 reads) (Other stories by Steven Patrick) [ Thanks to Low, Kuan Loong for this link. ] "Malaysian Venture Capital Management Bhd (Mavcap) would be allocating RM70mil to RM140mil [US$18.4-US$36.9 million] over the next two years to an Open Source Software (OSS) initiative, according to its senior vice-president Nagib Abdullah. "The objective of its 'OSS-Platform Investment Programme' (OSS-PIP) is to attract professionals to venture out on their own and form a cluster of independent companies offering a comprehensive spectrum of software capabilities to the market. "Nagib said OSS-PIP would invest in 40 local companies within the next two years. 'It's open to anyone who has got the technical skill. We don't want marketers or MBA holders,' he said..." Complete Story Related Stories: NewsForge: Open Asia: Open Source in Laos and Malaysia(Sep 30, 2003) TechCentral: Sun Extends Open Source Push to South Asia(Sep 26, 2003) Computerworld Malaysia: Path to Open-Source Software(Sep 08, 2003) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   Well done to the Malaysia OSS Crew    Imran William Smith Oct 29, 2003, 03:54:26     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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