SAO Industry News

7/24/2006
Oregon Open Source Showcase at OSCON
by Jon Perr
BlueOregon blog

7/24/2006
Wyden, Smith Secure Funding for Oregon Projects

7/19/2006
Planar Buys Clarity for $46 million

7/11/2006
VERIFY International Software Testing Conference being held October 10-11 in Washington DC

6/28/2006
Governor Visits Tokyo, Announces Salem Plant Upgrade
By KTVZ.com news sources

6/14/2006
Survey: Local CIOs More Likely to Hire Than National Average

6/02/2006
Google Not Interested in Browser Software

5/12/2006
Microsoft releases IDC Study
The Economic Impact of IT, Software, and the Microsoft Ecosystem on Oregon

4/19/2006
Oregon in Top 20 for High-Tech Jobs

4/17/2006
Oregon Software Industry Still Getting Lay of the Land
Portland Business Journal by Aliza Earnshaw

1/26/2006
ONAMI and FEI Coordinate on Affordable Microscopes
Portland Business Journal

1/10/2006
US Congressman Reflects on Technology-Related Policy

1/09/2006
Portland Ranks High in Education, Income
Portland Business Journal

12/22/2005
Oregon Receiving Defense-Related Funding
Portland Business Journal

12/13/2005
Incubators House Next Generation of Successful Businesses
By Linda Barney, Barney and Associates

Two incubators in the Portland area house the next generation of successful businesses. The Portland Business Accelerator is an incubator created by Portland State University. The Open Technology Business Center (OTBC) in Beaverton is home to companies and individuals focused on open technologies.

12/13/2005
Employer Workforce Training Fund Provides $66,000 Training Grant to Coaxis, Inc.
By Nancy Davis, project manager, Worksystems, Inc.

Grants from the Employer Workforce Training Fund help local software developer provide training for software engineers, application developers, technical support technicians and IT technicians. The SAO will survey member companies to identify a range of training needs, and develop an application for a training grant on behalf of the membership.

12/06/2005
Chen Lands Federal Reserve Appointment
Portland Business Journal

12/01/2005
Reinventing 911
How a swarm of networked citizens is building a better emergency broadcast system
Gary Wolf
Wired Magazine

11/25/2005
State Universities Ramp Up Commercialization Efforts
Portland Business Journal

11/18/2005
SAO Profile: Lunar Logic
Experience gained from one very large project positions Lunar Logic as a development firm that can handle high-end Web projects.

10/25/2005
Google Supports Open Source Initiatives
Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski announced at a press conference this morning a $350,000 contribution from Google to a joint open source technology initiative of Oregon State University and Portland State University. With the grant, the universities will collaborate to encourage open source software and hardware development, develop academic curricula and provide computing infrastructure to open source projects worldwide.

City of Portland Proposes to Create a Citywide Wireless Network
In 2005-06 the City of Portland, Portland Public Schools (PPS) and TriMet are collaborating through to sponsor the development of a Citywide wireless network (Unwire Portland) to promote economic and public benefits for community, business and government use.

09/30/2005
Getting Rid of the Old Alphabet Soup
State leaders move to combine several agencies
Aliza Earnshaw
Business Journal staff writer

If you thought that Oregon had too many economic development groups -- a veritable alphabet soup -- you weren't the only one.  Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed a new economic development organization into being this week that consolidates several state groups, and will serve as a conduit to government for other economic development groups.

09/16/2005
New SAO Head Aims to Grow Influence
John Tortorici is mapping out an ambitious agenda
Aliza Earnshaw
Business Journal staff writer

With a new leader and heir apparent in place, the venerable -- some might say staid -- Software Association of Oregon is aiming to play a bigger role in Oregon's economic development.  Read more.

07/22/2005
Oregon Mounts an Open Source Push
But more work still needed in some areas
Aliza Earnshaw
Business Journal staff writer

A concerted effort by business and economic development leaders to raise Oregon's visibility as a center for open-source activity is gaining momentum, but hasn't quite made it over the hump.  Read more.