Application Virtualization for Linux Application Management Challenges
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| Linux desktops are becoming more and more of a reality. Companies are
| adopting Linux desktops for a variety of reasons: stability and
| interoperability, scalability and performance to name a few.
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http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3638&Itemid=44
Another bit of good news:
Open Enterprise Interview: Stefane Fermigier
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| One of the great strengths of free software is that it can be started
| anywhere – as the origins of the Linux kernel in a Helsinki bedroom attest.
| From a European viewpoint, a heartening development has been a string of open
| source projects that have started and flourished this side of the Atlantic,
| some of them – notably JBoss and MySQL – turning into highly successful
| companies that were sold for significant piles of cash.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=501&blogid=14
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
Related:
French National Assembly switches to Linux
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| Linux, OpenOffice and Firefox favoured
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| One deputy in favour of the move is Bernard Carayon, commissioned by
| the Prime Minister earlier this year to report on how European
| businesses could play a greater role in developing global industrial
| standards, in order to reduce Europe's economic dependance on other
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| regions.
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http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=7687
Mail and Safari banned from the French gendarmerie
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| The Macs' future in the Gendarmerie has become ever gloomier since
| the very day this institution decided to get rid of Microsoft
| software. From now on the gendarmes will be using Linux-running
| PCs. Since you can't get a Mac without OSX, the fight can be
| considered as lost. At least, this was a place where Apple has
| been surviving longer than Microsoft...
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http://www.hardmac.com/news/2007-01-27/#6362
Vietnam Plans to Switch to Open-Source
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| The efforts made by Microsoft to reduce software piracy in Vietnam, where an
| industry group has estimated more than 90% of all software is counterfeit
| were useless. The applications got sold as cheap as $2 per CD.
|
| The Communist Party has announced that it will replace Microsoft Office with
| the free software product OpenOffice, to avoid breaching the law or paying a
| lot of money per licensed program. The council that took the decision met on
| Thursday, October 10, to decide how they will choose the open source
| programs.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Vietnam-Plans-to-Switch-to-Open-Source-68503.shtml
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