Open Source Systems Sdn Bhd (OSS) welcomes 3 new staff. Encik Mohd Fadli Mohd Zain, joins OSS as Linux Systems Engineer/Trainer. Fadli is a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Communication & Computer Engineering from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Fadli is not new to OSS, as he has recently joined OSS as an industrial trainee. Believing in his motto “To Learn and Live”, he hopes to be an expert in LINUX environment and grow together with the company. He believes the company has a very good working environment to learn more, gain experience and be an expert that shall benefit him, the company and the country.

Microsoft recently organized it's Microsoft Innovation Day at the Putrajaya Convention Centre on June 29, 2004. It was a whole day event where Microsoft took the opportunity to demonstrate its visions, concepts and technologies such as its code-named Longhorn architecture, which is major leap ahead as compared to its current Win32 architecture. Besides the demonstration of Longhorn, the star attraction of the innovation day was the talk presented by Microsoft founder and current software architect, Billy G himself.

A workshop entitled “Bengkel Program Pasca-Doktoral Bidang Bioteknologi” was held at the Interim Laboratory of The National Institute for Genomics and Molecular Biology Malaysia on May 13 – 14, 2004. The objective of the workshop was to give information about Post-Doctoral in the field of biotechnology that is conducted by the Biotechnology Cooperative Centres (BCC).

Tremendous success with huge crowds from all over the country attending the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo which was held from May 11 - 12, 2004 at the Mahkota Ballroom foyer of Hotel Istana in Kuala Lumpur.

The event started at 10 am each day with jam packed programs featuring speeches and talks by top shots from IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Veritas, Novell, Scalable Systems, ABAS, etc, and did not end until 5.00 in the evening. Intermediary, delegates attending the talks were greeted with succulent lunch and tea buffet, and various exhibitions by companies displaying their products and services.

Open Source Systems Sdn Bhd (OSS) welcomes Mr Nebojsa Novakovic as Senior Consultant of the company from the start of this month. Coming from architectural background, Mr Novakovic has at the same time, built a strong expertise in high-end microprocessors, systems design, computation and 3-D visualisation, a lot of it applied in 3-D automation of his architectural and property development concepts.