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[News] Victorian Government Departments Prefer Open Source Software

Victorian govt warms to open source development

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| "The Victorian government is getting the benefits of community
| contributions and the professional level of software," Brasacchio
| said. "Open source meets enterprise software standards - it's
| scalable, reliable, and portable."
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;829509509;fp;4194304;fpid;1


Also from Australia:

National gallery paints open future

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| By steadily overhauling individual pain-points in its IT infrastructure,
| the National Gallery of Victoria's (NGV) multimedia division has
| adopted Linux and open source software resulting in an improved
| service delivery capability.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id%3b114344561%3bfp%3b16%3bfpid%3b0


Aussie CIOs get clearer vista on open source

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| Wotif.com's Paul Young told ZDNet Australia that he decided to
| base the company's infrastructure on Red Hat Linux five years
| ago and since that time, his developers have contributed code
| back into the open source community.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Aussie_CIOs_get_clearer_vista_on_open_source/0,130061733,339273490,00.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3cdltq


School turns to open source to cut cost, foster student thinking

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| The school's workstations operate on the Mandriva 2006 Operating System,
| and run free and open source software options including: Open Office
| for office applications; Mozilla Firefox for Web browsing; GIMP for
| image editing; and Evolution mail for sending and receiving e-mail.
| 
| At the core of the network is a simple HP ProLiant ML 110 server
| running Mandrake 10.1, NIS and NFS, and that connects to the Internet
| via a 1.5Mbps broadband connection. 
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1708539119;fp;2;fpid;1


Sydney school tames twofold IT shop

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| SCEGGS has about 830 students, 100 staff, 500 desktops, 200
| laptops, 13 servers, and an IT team of eight.
| 
| The school's mail is delivered with the Postfix MTA on Linux and
| gets distributed to GroupWise.
| 
| "We have moved the Linux servers to a clustered file system with
| OCFS2 which is supported natively in SUSE 10 and the data is stored
| in an Apple raid array with 1.8TB of storage,' Ralph said.
| 
| Also in use are a number of MySQL-based applications for learning
| management systems. The school is now moving off one open source 
| application, AUC, which it has used since 1999, to Moodle, a modern
| learning and content management system. 
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=905401168&rid=-50


Australia To Trial OLPC

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| In a surprise announcement, the government of the Northern Territory
| has announced that they are testing the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child)
| machines with a view to launching trials in remote communities.
| 
| The OLPC has been designed for children in the developing world, in
| regions that struggle for basic infrastructure like clean running
| water, and electricity. So it may come as a surprise to some that
| an Australian state government has put up a hand to trial the new
| laptops. 
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http://www.localfoss.org/Australia_To_Trial_OLPC


GLiNTECH Helps Boost Nokia's Customer Service Capability with Open Source

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| Thomas continues, "Using open source technology will enable us to
| develop a customised and unique technology solution that caters
| directly for our needs, gives us more flexibility and helps
| provide easier access to information for our customers and
| Care personnel."
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8495/545/


Linux on BOM's radar

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| The Linux R&D platform will support research in a number of BOM
| divisions including the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre,
| National Meteorological and Oceanographic Centre, Space Based
| Observations Section and data management group.
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http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21037555%5E15319%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html?from=public_rss
http://tinyurl.com/v4o7z


Related and recent (mainly Linux in Australia):

DET considers Linux on the desktop

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| The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) may increase
| the penetration of Linux on its 165,000 desktop fleet because
| open source is "clearly an industry trend".
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Video_DET_considers_Linux_on_the_desktop/0,130061733,339272567,00.htm?feed=rss


NSW steers clear of Vista

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| NSW government chief information officer Paul Edgecumbe said that the
| state's CIO executive council, which comprises technology bosses from
| many of NSW's largest computer and communications users, were not
| backing a move to Vista.
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http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21024831%5E15306,00.html


Talent Not Important At NineMSN

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| In the last 6 months the following have left the organisation:
| 
|     * CEO
|     * CTO
|     * CFO
|     * Marketing Director.
|     * National Sales Manager
|     * Executive Producer (News & Sport)
|     * Executive Producer (Sport)
|     * Head of Search
|     * Producer (Sport)
|     * Senior Copy Editor (7+ years @ ninemsn)
|     * Multimedia Producer (5+ years)
|     * The entire sports team (20 years experience) left to
|       competitors in < 2 months
|     * Producer of Hotmail, Messenger and Spaces
| 
| [...]
|
| I'm all for cleaning house every once in a while, but this list is 
| astonishing.
|
| [...]
| 
| Better get a new ship is all I can say. This spells big trouble for 
| Microsoft because it gets to a point where no matter how deep your pockets, 
| if you can't recruit and retain talent, then the game is certainly up.
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http://blog.eightblack.com/2006/talent-not-important-at-ninemsn/


Linux powers nation's largest satellite network

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| Some 75 towns across New South Wales have started accessing the
| Internet through Linux-based satellite routers in what is said to be
| largest network of its type in Australia spanning upwards of 800,000s
| quare kilometres.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;55499617;fp;4;fpid;18


Office, Vista "too expensive" for SMEs 

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| According to the Sydney Morning Herald, David Hanrahan, of IT  solutions
| and services provider Dimension Data said SMEs are staying away in
| droves because Office is a lot more expensive and facing competition
| from free open software.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35999


Vista: Costs limit Education Dept deployment

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| After more than eight months of beta testing Microsoft Windows
| Vista, licensing and implementation costs have stymied mass
| adoption at the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET).
| 
| [...]
| 
| DET has one of the largest IT infrastructures in the country with
| 1.3 million users spread across 2,500 locations. Its desktop fleet
| consists of 250,000 devices of which 160,000 are personal computers.M
| acs make up 15 percent to 20 percent of the total, and are more
| common in primary schools.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Vista_Costs_limit_Education_Dept_deployment/0,130061733,339272347,00.htm


Office 2007 may be Microsoft's Titanic: former Government IT boss

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| Bill Gates has been talking up Office 2007 ahead of its business launch
| on November 30. However, the recently departed deputy CIO of one of
| Australia's biggest government Microsoft sites believes introducing
| the new version of Microsoft Office may be the company's biggest
| ever disaster.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7234/53/


Feds assess open source

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| Federal government use of open-source software will be examined to assess
| how many agencies have adopted Linux and other systems.
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http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20553874%5E15441%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html


Talking Linux in Sydney

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| There are three major Linux conferences held annually, one each in the
| US, Canada and Australia.
| 
| That alone should provide an indication of the extent to which
| Australians have been, and are, involved in the free and open
| source software community. 
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8527/1090/

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