"Application Park" at HM 2008: Germany leads the world in automation tech
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| One example: At the touch of a button visitors can order up their own
| personal wooden breakfast platter, complete with personalized engraving. The
| board is made on a HOMAG wood machining centre, and visitors can watch as a
| TRUMPF laser engraves the design before their very eyes. At the heart of the
| production process, once again, is open-source technology, because all these
| machines run under the Linux operating system - which is free,
| real-time-capable and designed for multiple users. "IT systems geared to the
| needs of industry are now all the rage", notes Rainer Glatz, executive
| secretary of the software trade association affiliated to the VDMA, adding
| his endorsement to the presentation at HANNOVER MESSE 2008.
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| This is why the whole subject of software features so prominently this year
| in the "Application Park" display. At a press conference on 21 April Andrew
| Morton, one of the key software specialists behind the development of the
| Linux kernel, and the right-hand man of the Finnish inventor of Linux, Linus
| Torvald, will be answering topical questions about the Linux kernel and its
| use in industrial environments.
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| This is followed on 22 April by an all-day congress on the theme "Linux and
| Open Source in Industry". As well as Bruce Perens, one of the leading
| champions of the open-source concept, a number of other senior industry
| figures have agreed to come and speak at this important event.
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http://machinist.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=931&Itemid=2
Recent:
German penal institutions looking into OpenOffice.org
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| It looks like that OpenOffice.org is also being used in areas where many of
| us don't expect it, or wouldn't research for. I have reports that some German
| penal institutions are looking into OpenOffice.org for their daily office
| work.
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http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/02/german-penal-institutions-looking-into.html
[German] Federal Employment Office switches to Linux
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/102218
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