{"id":128,"date":"2004-05-10T22:25:14","date_gmt":"2004-05-11T03:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=128"},"modified":"2004-05-10T22:25:14","modified_gmt":"2004-05-11T03:25:14","slug":"malaysias-making-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/10\/malaysias-making-waves","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s making waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novell is in a rapid <a href=\"http:\/\/star-techcentral.com\/tech\/story.asp?file=\/2004\/5\/6\/technology\/7927012&#038;sec=technology\">Linux channels drive<\/a>, where becoming a certified engineer is now a very official thing. The article does show some insight as to where they&#8217;re trying to make inroads, so much so a fairly reputable company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emedia.com.my\/TECH\/BizComp\/NewsAnalysis\/20040506141138\/wartrevamp\">ByteCraft advances with Linux<\/a> (basically, new carriers of Novell\/SuSe solutions).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elxlinux.com\/index.php\">Everyone&#8217;s Linux<\/a>, while a company based in India, is funded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mavcap.com.my\/\">MAVCAP<\/a>, so there&#8217;s plenty of Malaysian interest there. Local company, <a href=\"http:\/\/kitech.com.my\/elx\/\">Kitech<\/a> has a support site even. Its definitely a Red Hat based distribution, probably RH8\/9 styled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxworldexpo.com.sg\/content.php?content.17\">LinuxWorld Conference &#038; Expo 2004: Malaysia<\/a> is on as well. Some of the tracks look interesting, and from reports, it&#8217;s been very largely focused on Linux in the enterprise. IBM and Novell are the main contenders, a missing RH, even though focus is on enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>When will a bunch of Malaysian students <a href=\"http:\/\/globeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20040505.wlinux0505\/BNStory\/Technology\/\">start<\/a> an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ignalum.com\/\">Ignalum<\/a>? I&#8217;m all ears, so do use the comment form or write me some e-mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novell is in a rapid Linux channels drive, where becoming a certified engineer is now a very official thing. The article does show some insight as to where they&#8217;re trying to make inroads, so much so a fairly reputable company, ByteCraft advances with Linux (basically, new carriers of Novell\/SuSe solutions). Everyone&#8217;s Linux, while a company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-24","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}