Global publisher moves business applications from Oracle to Open Source
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| Mark Taylor, CEO, Sirius said: "In our experience only 12% of current Oracle
| users are unable to reproduce the functionality they want in PostgreSQL.
| Everyone else will make massive cost savings, improve performance and keep
| the high-end features they rely on."
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http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=34865&hilite=
Environment Canada opens up to open source
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| Environment Canada is using an open source model for its Model of the
| Environment and Temperature of Roads (METRo) forecasting system, in an effort
| to help provide the community of meteorologists and road maintainers with
| accurate forecasting software.
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http://www.intergovworld.com/article/f8f440a20a01040800b98117d721d2a0/pg1.htm
A calling plan to change the world
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| Besides mobile phones, the technology center has also created the first free
| software system tailored to support the growing microfinance industry around
| the world. Called Mifos, the open-source software takes microfinance into the
| modern age. Loans and savings that were tallied on paper ledgers can now be
| managed in a database.
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| It's one of the ways technology and philanthropy can work together, he
| said. "Poverty reduction is an information-intensive business."
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003986889_grameen01.html
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