Tony Blair says Canada will become an economic and political powerhouse.

Canada is poised to become an economic and political powerhouse in
the world, former British prime minister Tony Blair said Friday.

IDC has a report titled “The Momentum of Open Source: Adoption Plans and Challenges in Australia, Korea, India and the People’s Republic of China”.

As you can see from this blog post summary, security factors in very high on the list of criteria. "Budget constraints" and "better management tools and utilities" are next.

According to ABI Research, Linux will be the fastest growing smart phone operating system over the next five years, and will grab about one third of market share by then.

Will RIM change their proprietary operating system to Linux? Not now, but eventually they will have to.

The Nokia N810 is due to come out on October 23 (next Tuesday). It runs a variant of Linux Debian. It was even made to work in Arabic by M Sameer.

A few tidbits on NCR and Bill Nuti in the news ...

On October 1st, NCR spun off Teradata (TDC) as a separate company to the shareholders of record. So far, the net is positive gains by the combined shares as compared to the pre spin off price.

Thanks to Angela Byron, there is now an easy way to learn and contribute to Drupal.

If one checks the Drupal issues assigned to patchnewbie, they will get a list of relatively simple issues that need patches. This is suitable if one wants to cut your teeth in Drupal, but daunted by the magnitude of changes required by complex issues.

If you know someone who wants to contribute but was shy, or daunted, go ahead and pass that info to them. Or even go and try it yourself.

Wisdom of the day:

"You can't shrink to greatness -- JF

A Toronto company put out a job on Monster.com for Flash developers. The candidate should know Lynux though. What exactly is that?

If everyone pronounced Linux the way Linus does (Lee-nooks), rather than the Anglicized (Lie-nooks) this would not have happened.

On Thursday, there was a Drupal Users Group monthly meeting in Toronto. All the Lullabots were there, except for Robert Douglass (marooned in Germany), along with 2bits.

This photo shows the bits and bots together.

The auction site eBay has rolled out a social network for shoppers, called Neighborhoods, focusing on several areas, such as Star Trek, food, shoes, knitting, ...etc.

Via CBC.