UK SME blogs case study in Open Source migration
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| Senokian advised a new thick client system using mostly existing
| hardware, using the Ubuntu Linux LAMP stack, with Zimbra email
| and calendaring, Trixbox VOIP phone system and a new bespoke web
| based CRM system built in PHP on the reliable PostgreSQL database.
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| Jake Stride, Managing Director of Senokian Solutions said "Its
| great to be working with Adrian and his team at Mercian Labels
| as they migrate their systems to a more reliable and secure Open
| Source system. The new functionality and integration they will be
| able to achieve will provide much greater flexibility and choice
| in terms of existing and future IT decisions."
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http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/16/1935259
There seem to be several companies that take a similar route and proudly blog
about it. Quietly they go Microsoft-free. I occasionally see these, but who
would advertise and brag about Free software...?
KDE-Forum Romania Launched
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| After the rise of KDE-Forum.org, and KDE-Forum.de, Romanians wanted a
| forum of their own, and KDE-Forum Romania was born. Destined to unite
| all Romanians under one roof, KDE-Forum Romania is going to join its
| brothers on the boat for the upcoming KDE 4 release.
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http://dot.kde.org/1176766752/
Related:
Free software in Eastern Europe
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| The Romanians are holding a conference in five weeks time that looks
| set to rock: Rasmus Lerdorf will be there, as will Monty Widenius,
| Brian Behlendorf and Zak Greant (representing PHP, MySQL, Apache
| and Mozilla respectively), and there'll be a general push to
| encourage local and national governments to give free software a try.
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http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/blog/?p=269
A Brief Overview -- Open Source Software in Romania
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| Romania is developing its own Linux distributions. One of the biggest
| is Darkstar Linux, based on Slackware. Furthermore, the open source
| community is translating free software projects into Romanian, e.g.
| KDE or GNOME. The Romanian Linux User Group (RLUG) translates and
| improves the Debian documentation.
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| Like many other European countries, Romania has caught a glimpse of
| what Linux and other open source software can do for business or
| private use. Romanian user hope the government will realise one
| day that instead of wasting money on proprietary products, it can
| not only improve the functionality of institutions but also use
| open source software as a way to direct those funds to other more
| important issues.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/5016/470
Romania bites the OLPC bait!
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| Yesterday, the Prime Minister of Romania (otherwise, an intelligent guy)
| fell for the One Laptop Per Child project.
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| [...]
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| In brief, the targeted audience is 1.2 million children, and the
| program is planned to be "operational" (what is this supposed to mean?!)
| on September 15.
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http://beranger.org/index.php?article=2590&from=rss
Sofia, Bulgaria: FLOSSWorld Workshop on Free and Open Source Software Policy
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| Professor Ivan Evgueniev at the Technical University of Sofia presented
| the FP6 Open Trusted Computing project, professor Vencislav Trifonov
| also at the Technical University of Sofia presented their e-learning
| system, Mircho Mirev elaborated the activities of the Bulgarian free
| and open source software community through the Linux for Bulgarians
| portal with over 5.000 hits per day.
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http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/877/4/lang,en/
Historic victory of the "Associazione per il Software Libero"! [in Italy]
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| WE WON. Therefore 4.5 million Euros of public money will not be spent
| on proprietary software licenses, since the Ministry failed to
| consider free software options.
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http://www.softwarelibero.it/abbiamo_vinto_en
The French Parliament switches to Ubuntu
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| The French Parliament looks to be the next big Ubuntu switcher according to
| reports. Recently the Parliament produced an official government report
| that recommended the use of free software over proprietary software. The
| switch to free software is expected to provide a substantial savings to the
| tax-payers according to the government study.
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http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/814
Municipality of Makedonska Kamenica Migrated to OpenOffice.org
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| As a result of the training for OpenOffice.org conducted by
| Metamorphosis Foundation and USAID?s project for successful
| decentralization - Make Decentralization Work Project for employees
| of the Macedonia's local self-government units, municipality of
| Makedonska Kamenica started to actively use OpenOffice.org on
| all computers in the municipality.
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http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/849/4/lang,en/
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