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[News] Open Source in Businesses Leaps; Ubuntu on the Rise Also

  • Subject: [News] Open Source in Businesses Leaps; Ubuntu on the Rise Also
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:44:39 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Open source up 26% in the enterprise

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| Its breakdown of licenses for the top 25 packages found that Apache, not the 
| GPL, is the most common license. 62% of the packages use Apache, 27% use some 
| variant of GPL and 4% each use BSD, CPL, Eclipse, MPL and Perl licenses 
| (since packages may be released under two or more licenses, percentages total 
| to more than 100%).    
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2008/01/open_source_up.html

Ubuntu is on the rise

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| Ubuntu is making inroads at IBM, with IBM making a significant commitment to 
| lift Ubuntu out of its alleged "community" status to true enterprise status. 
| (It's already enterprise-class, but perception lags technology.) IBM's reason 
| for its Ubuntu move? Customer demand.   
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9862163-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog


Related and recent:

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


French police deal blow to Microsoft

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| The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft 
| for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest 
| administrations in the world to make the break.  
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w

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