Italian Court Selects Red Hat Solutions for Core IT Applications
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| Corte dei Conti Relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Safeguard Public
| Finance and Maintain Jurisdictional Order in Italy
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080115/20080115005158.html?.v=1
Quote for the day:
"I thanked [Compaq's John] Rose for all of his trips to Seattle and his
willingness to distract a lot of time for the lawsuit."
--Bill Gates, oil tycoon
Last month:
Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance Powers Mission-Critical Applications
with Red Hat Solutions
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| The Ministry selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux for reliability and heightened
| performance, and
| is utilizing the solution as the main platform for many of its critical
| applications, including its "Service Personale Tesoro" (SPT) application,
| which runs on one of the most popular Italian government websites.
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http://www.pr-inside.com/italian-ministry-of-economics-and-finance-r351508.htm
Related:
Linux Day in Roma.
http://blog.notsecurity.com/index.php/resoconto-linuxday-roma-27102007/2007/10/
Linux reaches the Italian Parliament
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| As reported by the Italian newspaper Repubblica on July 10th, 2007, a plan
| suggested by the left deputies Pietro Folena and Franco Grillini to migrate
| all the computers of the Parliament from Windows to Linux was approved by the
| Chamber.
|
| The migration will affect about 3500 boxes of the Chamber, both desktops and
| servers, and each Deputy/Party may also ask to migrate his/its (private)
| computers to the Free System.
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http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/blog/linux-docs/italian-parliament-moves-to-linux/
Itway Reinforced Parnership With US Company Red Hat
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| The Itway group specialising in the sector of information technology and
| quoted at the Milan stock exchange extended the agreement for the
| distribution in the whole south of Europe of the Red Hat solutions, one of
| the main distributors in the world of enterprise solutions. According to a
| statement, the value of the agreement has been estimated by the Itway
| management around the figure of 6 million euros on a yearly basis.
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http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200612181747-1198-RT1-CRO-0-NF30&page=0&id=agionline-eng.bnessitaly
Italy adopts OpenDocument as a National Standard
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| Italy has adopted The OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 23600) as a
| national standard. The decision was made by UNI, the Italian
| Organization for Standardization, which is responsible, under
| appointment from the Italian Government and the EU, to develop,
| approve and publish technical standards in all economic sectors
| (industry, trade and services) except for electric and
| electro-technical ones.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/1/29/13965
2006 Italian Linux Day: A nationwide success
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| The 2006 edition of Italian Linux Day on October 28 was the first
| in the six-year history of the event to be celebrated in more than
| 100 cities in every corner of the country.
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http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/01/2048226&from=rss
Linux reaches the Italian Parliament
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| As reported by the Italian newspaper Repubblica on July 10th, 2007, a plan
| suggested by the left deputies Pietro Folena and Franco Grillini to migrate
| all the computers of the Parliament from Windows to Linux was approved by the
| Chamber.
|
| The migration will affect about 3500 boxes of the Chamber, both desktops and
| servers, and each Deputy/Party may also ask to migrate his/its (private)
| computers to the Free System.
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http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/blog/linux-docs/italian-parliament-moves-to-linux/
Historic victory of the "Associazione per il Software Libero"! [in Italy]
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| WE WON. Therefore 4.5 million Euros of public money will not be spent
| on proprietary software licenses, since the Ministry failed to
| consider free software options.
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http://www.softwarelibero.it/abbiamo_vinto_en
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