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Shore and Hitachi Consulting team up on Ontario IT Solutions VOR

Shore has teamed with Hitachi Consulting, a leading provider of IT consulting and management consulting solutions and services, to provide services on the Vendor of Record (VOR) for Information Technology Solutions Consulting Services (VOR Arrangement OSS-00195390 – I&IT Solutions Consulting Services).

Shore is very excited to be working with Hitachi Consulting to expand the range of services we’re able to offer our clients in the Ontario Public Sector. Shore’s agility and responsiveness can be more easily scaled with the support of Hitachi Consulting’s depth of experience, global scale and history of innovation
Details can be found in Hitachi’s press release.

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OLA Super Conference

We’re giving a talk with Tim Gauntley about what exactly the learning commons is and we’ll share our exciting work in the field.

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Adobe Dumps Flex

Adobe has announced their intention to donate its Flex SDK, for building web applications, to the FOSS community. While the Open Spoon Foundation has been working on an open source fork of Flex, it is our suspicion that Adobe will donate the SDK to the more mature and capable Apache Software Foundation. Causing a furor among Flex developers, Adobe has announced that they believe HTML5 is a better technology for moving forward than the Flex platform. This of course has raised concerns that the Flex platform will recede into the classification of abandonware, as Adobe has a tendency to abrubtly terminate support for technologies that it deems a failure. So where is this going exactly? Is this a generous donation to the FOSS community? Or is it just Adobe dumping their abandonware? Hopefully the answer may be found largely in the former, as opposed to the latter.

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Your Favourite E-Reader, Open Source

Barnes & Noble has of late received a great deal of credit from the open source community for standing ground against Microsoft in the battle over patents affecting Android. They’ve also received recognition for allowing the Nook to be so easily rooted. Amazon on the other hand, lost many supporters after remotely removing purchased e-books from users’ Kindles. Now in an unusual twist, Amazon has released the source for both the Kindle Fire’s version of Android, as well as for the formerly proprietary Kindle OS. Is this an attempt to garner more respect from the FOSS community? Is it an attempt to win back users left bitter by the thought that the e-books they own might not be theirs after all? At the very least, it indicates a bright future for the Kindle as an open platform.

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New Kindle Fire ships today! But not for Canadians…

Amazon released the Kindle Fire today ahead of schedule, but unfortunately the bargain priced tablet doesn’t offer many of the services through Amazon Prime to Canada. At least the recently released Kobo Vox has a similar price point, though it’s not dual core and lacks the hype the Fire is generating from developers.

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Shore is a technology and strategy consulting firm that delivers well-designed systems, and fresh, metric-driven strategic thinking. We have a strong eGovernment focus and are committed to helping government services connect to citizens and government agencies connect to each other.

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