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CeBIT 2009: Starting Shot for Linux in Automobiles
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| Thinking of buying a BMW, a Peugeot or a Citroen in the near future? If you
| are then the chances are pretty good that you'll be buying an automobile with
| a small Linux computer behind the middle console
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/cebit_2009_starting_shot_for_linux_in_automobiles
Genivi shows why open source is good for business
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| The automotive industry consortium, Genivi, has been announced. Its aims are
| to produce a common Linux-based stack to run the user-level electronics in
| cars — entertainment, navigation, information systems, and so on. It all
| sounds perfectly sensible, but it's far smarter than that. It's actually a
| good example of why open source is good for business, even outside the
| software industry itself.
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| It's up to the Genivi Alliance itself to choose which licence it uses for its
| reference stack — parts will be covered by the GPL, at least — but a good
| open source licence will ensure that no one manufacturer in the alliance gets
| to dictate what the others are able to do in their products, and none of them
| will have to pay ongoing or per-product licensing fees just to use the stack.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012289o-2000331765b,00.htm
Recent:
Open source vs. Microsoft: Automotive battlefield
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| The competition between Microsoft and open-source software reaches into the
| automotive space with the announcement of a new alliance among automakers and
| technology providers called Genivi. The goal of the alliance is to build a
| Linux stack that will provide a common architecture for automotive
| infotainment systems.
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http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-10185259-48.html
Linux provides affordable alternative for Honda car dealership
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| It's no secret that the UK's car industry is suffering badly in the economic
| downturn. Whilst giant US car manufacturers face bankrupcy and the UK
| government considers providing emergency credit to Jaguar-Landrover, other
| industry players must look at innovative solutions to remain competitive.
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| Nestling in the heart of Surrey, Trident Honda first considered Open Source
| software when they were faced with an eye-watering £75,000 to 'update' their
| existing Citrix MetaFrame infrastructure.
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http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/linux-provides-affordable-alternative-for-honda-car-dealership.html
Related:
Car dealership uses Asterisk VoIP to stay on "cutting edge"
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| Now that Stear's having a good experience with open source, he's
| considering adding more to the IT mix at O'Brien. "I'd like to put
| some file servers on the network without paying Microsoft all that
| licensing money," he says. He's already got Red Hat Linux on the
| two servers running Asterisk, and several traditional open source
| tools for network monitoring and administration, including MRTG
| and OpenNMS.
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http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/22622
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