Brunei The Google Of Halal?

The Brunei Times: “Can Brunei be the Google of Halal?” The question put forward by the leader of a global open source community project called ADempiere Bazaar based in Berlin, drew plenty of intrigue and interest from the audience during an international halal market conference in Brunei.

Introducing the concept of ‘halal software’ to an audience for the first time, ADempiere Bazaar’s Redhuan Daniel Oon said it rings an opportunity for Brunei to position itself to become the ‘Google’ among the Muslim nations in new applications built upon successful open source applications.

“What Brunei can do in the sense of becoming a ‘Google’ is that it can specialise in something and give a brand promise to the market. What Google promised was ‘I’m faster’. So Brunei can say something like, ‘I’m cleaner,’ or ‘I’m more focused because I’m not doing anything else,” he said. Redhuan, an advocate of the link between halal and open source, said the concept of ‘halal software’ is not just about software to support the halal industry but also about the handling of the software itself.