Linux World China 2007 and Software Freedom Day preview

Last Friday, I attended the Linux World China 2007 conference and exhibition held in the luxury Beijing International Hotel. Instead of giving you a chronological report of the event, I'd just like to share some interesting observations.

First of all, on the sponsors' list was a big surprise: Microsoft. I asked..... Read more »

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Sleepless nights for Microsoft as IBM joins OpenOffice.org?

Here is some good news. It was announced today that IBM will join the OpenOffice.org community. This is OpenOffice.org's opportunity to compete with Microsoft's big cash cow, and I guess there will be people having sleepless nights in Redmond. If you're wondering what the mood is like here in China,..... Read more »

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Peter Cheng

Peter Cheng is a community strategist and open source evangelist, who is based in Beijing, China. In 2003, he initiated the Open Source University program to gather industry experts and help spread open source technology and culture to over 100 universities. In 2007, he organized the Open Source Camp in five Chinese cities, with the aim to enable the open source community to share and exchange ideas and to promote the technology in China. Peter currently runs TargetSource Tech, a company he founded to provide consulting services on enterprise open source software.