AlJazeera embraces Open Source
A great article from Howard Dahdah published in COMPUTERWORLD about how AlJazeera's New Media group are going open source with some existing and upcoming projects.
Although i think there's too much mention of PHP and Linux and not enough Mobile related information. Well, okay till now there really hasn't been such a thing as Open Source Mobile yet but hey, let's wait and see if Google's Android lives up to the hype once the venture by the Open Handset Alliance really gathers momentum.
... I digress, back to AlJazeera. I think this quote from the mastermind behind it all sums it all up. We look forward to great things to come from AlJazeera New Media:
"My team is looking more at the experimental side of things - new platforms, new technologies. One of the things my group is doing is trying to promote and evangelise the use of open source technology internally, partly because we see a lot of value in lots of open source tools that are being developed," said Mohamed Nanabhay (Head of New Media).