Bristol plans to move 5,000 to open source
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Bristol City Council could begin one of the UK&#39;s biggest roll-outs of open source desktop applications if a proposal to adopt Star Office is adopted at a council meeting next month.
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Switiching to open source software could save Â£600 million, says the shadow chancellor.
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&quot;If the Linux industry can unite and pull this off, there&#39;s a real shot at a true open alternative to Microsoft,&quot; said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Free Standards Group.
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The Free Standards Group and the Open Source Development Labs(OSDL) hope that improved standards for Linux will help accelerate its adoption by enterprise and large business customers.
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TechWeb - A UK government report encourages public agencies to consider using Linux and other open-source alternatives to commercial software.
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This week, UK government agencies got the go-ahead to use Linux and other open source products in a report published by the UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC).
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OPEN SOURCE champion Microsoft is expanding its programme to give government organisations some of its source code. In a communique from the lair of the Vole, in Redmond, spinsters have said that Microsoft
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Computer giant IBM says 500 of its software patents will be released into the open development community.
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Novell plans to co-ordinate the release of Open Enterprise Server with the availability of the first service pack for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. Customers will be able to deploy OES knowing
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InfoWorld - If Microsoft Corp. had any hope of seeing Munich back away from its landmark decision last year to abandon Windows software in favor of open source Linux, that hope faded Wednesday when city officials decided to move ahead with their migration project.
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Company already uses others' open-source modules, but its own foundation follows suit in a bid to lure developers and customers.
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As companies ramp up open-source deployments, expertise is in high demand and short supply. The costs of developing talent can add up.
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Â£5m is being given to a charity that will fund research and educational initiatives dedicated to the net.
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It releases a public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization technologies intended to help companies get more use from their hardware.
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Open source has many good uses.  Beating up one's competitors shouldn't be the primary one.
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Novell is putting open source and identity management centre stage at its European user conference this week. The networking firm announced that Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES), which includes Novell&#39;s
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Programmers say the new version of the open-source database is 5 to 30 percent faster and works better on Windows.