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[News] GNU/Linux to the Rescue in Recession

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Joe the Plumber teaches how to weather the recession with Linux and Open Source
models

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| In this globally troubled time open source software - and Linux, its 
| operating system poster child - has clear economic advantages. You've heard 
| talk of Joe the Plumber; let me introduce his little known cousin Cain the 
| CIO who’s looking to do more with less money.   
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22139/1143/


Related:

Nortel considers Linux desktops for its staff

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| Nortel CIO Steve Bandrowczak, who joined the Canadian telecoms and network
| equipment vendor last July, said "more and more CIOs are looking at Linux
| desktop for reasons of TCO" and argued that the technology "is receiving the
| same level of attention today as when Linux started on servers."    
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http://www.mbtmag.com/articleXml/LN731846314.html


Open Source Helped by Recession

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| We have known for some time that its popular opinion that operating systems
| like Linux are gaining more computer users thanks to cheaper devices running
| that OS...
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http://www.product-reviews.net/2008/10/11/open-source-helped-by-recession/


Intel won't touch Vista

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| So that leaves two other choices, Linux and Mac. Linux is a distinct
| possibility, they already have an in-house distro that causes employees look
| nervously around the room when you talk about it. Although it is not a
| desktop variant, there is no reason that they could not roll one given two
| years.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/06/23/intel-dumps-vista


Otellini: 'MID revolution will be centred round Linux'

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| Intel CEO says Microsoft's insistence on pushing Vista will hand market to
| open source rival
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| Intel's CEO has said that he sees the revolution that is about to happen
| around mobile internet devices (MID) such as the Eee PC and other Atom-based
| sub-notebooks will be "centred round Linux", in an interview with Associated
| Press.
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http://www.pcretailmag.com/news/29939/Otellini-MID-revolution-will-be-centred-round-Linux
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