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25 highly anticipated open-source releases coming this year
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| When big companies release new software, they launch it with lots of hoopla:
| press tours, technical conferences, free T-shirts. Open-source projects, even
| the well-known ones, generally release their major new versions with a lot
| less fanfare. The FOSS (free and open-source software) community is often too
| busy coding and testing to bother with marketing, even when the new "point
| release" of the software is really remarkable.
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| And there are plenty of remarkable open-source applications on the way this
| year. Quite a few projects are quietly (or not so quietly) working on major
| releases or significant upgrades that they aim to make available sometime
| during 2009. I've rounded up 25 of the most notable here.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9130401
Recent:
FR: Gendarmerie saves millions with open desktop and web applications
http://www.osor.eu/news/fr-gendarmerie-saves-millions-with-open-desktop-and-web-applications
French Lawmakers Hope to Inspire Linux Revolution
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| If the French National Assembly gets its way, the open-source Linux operating
| system will take over the governments of Europe, seizing on a weak economy to
| displace Windows.
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| About 18 months ago, the Assembly shifted from running Windows on the 1,100
| computers of its members and their assistants to running a version of Linux
| called Ubuntu. (I profiled the rise of Ubuntu in a recent article.) According
| to Rudy Salles, vice president of the assembly, the decision to abandon
| Microsoft’s Windows software was both an economic and political gesture.
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| The French Parliament should save about 500,000 euros over the next five
| years, thanks to the low price of Ubuntu –- free –- and have lower management
| costs. Linux tends to have fewer security issues than Windows, for example.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/french-lawmakers-hope-to-inspire-linux-revolution/
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