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[This can't be good news. If they demote Linux, that'll be why:]
Ex-Microsoft Exec Poole Joins NComputing
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| A 25-year industry veteran, Poole most recently served as corporate vice
| president of Microsoft's Unlimited Potential Group, which focuses on IT
| technology needs in underserved countries. He was also active in the
| company's involvement with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization and
| helped bring Windows to OLPC machines.
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http://redmondmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=10193
Former Microsoft exec named NComputing co-chairman
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/09/08/daily62.html
Microsoft exec to leave for NComputing
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| Poole, 47, said he and his wife will remain in their Bellevue home.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/378558_poole11.html
NComputing Turns To Microsoft For New Co-Chair
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| Each product line has accounted for roughly half of NComputing's shipments in
| achieving 1 million unit sales, Drukker said.
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http://www.crn.com/it-channel/210600949
Recent:
Sustainable computing for the masses
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| Dukker says about 40 per cent of NComputing's customers have chosen Linux
| (the company uses Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora or SuSE) and the remainder have gone
| with Windows on the host. He is careful to specify that he has no religion
| when it comes to the operating system - it is entirely the buyer's choice.
| (Of course, if he were not offering the GNU/Linux option, then he wouldn't
| have got a run here).
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17254/1090/
Recent:
Poor nations gain more choices in computing
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| The NComputing system cuts costs tremendously. The cost per child of each
| NComputing system, for seven users, is $70 each, in a system running at just
| 1 watt per user.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/15/AR2008031502051.html
[Latest SEC filing from Microsoft]
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| A prominent example of open source software is the Linux operating system...
| To the extent open source software gains increasing market acceptance, sales
| of our products may decline, we may have to reduce the prices we charge for
| our products, and revenue and operating margins may consequently decline.
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http://www. microsoft.com/msft/SEC/default.mspx
Microsoft says to borrow money for Yahoo deal
http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN0455692920080205
Related:
Dumb terminals provide smart solution
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| Thin client technology is not new - it has been used widely in banking and
| sectors which want to avoid placing sensitive information on individual PCs.
|
| NComputing has also been deploying its technology in factories where
| operating conditions are not suitable for ordinary PCs.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7115538.stm
Macedonia: A New Sun of Linux Freedom Rises
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| The Republic of Macedonia is one of the poorer nations in southeastern Europe
| to come from the break-up of the former Yugoslav republic. But thanks to
| Linux, they do have the wherewithal to get a computer to every student in the
| country, thanks to a program launched in 2005 known as the "Computer for
| Every Child" (CEC) project.
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/newss/6438/1/
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| A batch of 7,000 PCs with Ubuntu Linux have been sent to Macedonian schools,
| the first of a collection that Ubuntu sponsor Canonical expects will reach
| 20,000.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9819344-39.html
All Macedonian students to use Linux desktops
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| NComputing announced this week that its multi-user virtual desktop software
| and low-cost virtual PC terminals will be used to equip every school child in
| the Republic of Macedonia, formerly part of Yugoslavia, with a Linux desktop.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7546509093.html
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