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Gmail Fills the Bill for Obama Staff
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| E-mail is near and dear to Barack Obama (thus his reliance on his
| Blackberry). But when Obama's incoming staff members first enter the White
| House on Inauguration Day, they won't yet have access to the traditional
| White House e-mail system. According to The New York Times' Adam Nagourney,
| being out of the loop for even a few hours is just not acceptable for the
| tech-savvy Obama crowd. So the administration has turned to Google. No, it
| didn't tap Google's Eric Schmidt to fix the problem. Instead, it issued its
| staffers Google Gmail accounts to bridge the gap.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/158081/gmail_obama_staff.html?tk=rss_news
Calls for open source government
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| The secret to a more secure and cost effective government is through open
| source technologies and products.
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| The claim comes from one of Silicon Valley's most respected business leaders
| Scott McNealy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
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| He revealed he has been asked to prepare a paper on the subject for the new
| administration.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7841486.stm
Recent:
Washington DC latest to drop Microsoft for web apps
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| Washington D.C. has joined 500,000+ businesses and organizations in moving
| its communication and productivity tools into the cloud. Vivek Kundra, CTO
| for the District, signed an agreement with Google to migrate the
| organization's 38,000 employees to Google Apps, the search giant's web-based
| offering of communication and productivity tools. Washington D.C. is a
| not-insignificant win for Google, and yet another blow to Microsoft's
| incumbent Office suite, as a surge of web apps steadily replaces their
| desktop counterparts.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081012-washington-dc-latest-to-drop-microsoft-for-web-apps.html
Gameloft Moves 1,000 Desktops to Ubuntu Linux
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| “It’s been a pretty big deployment, well over 1000 desktops and it’s been a
| huge success,” crows the source. “Ubuntu does the same job [as Windows] for
| zero cash. The most painful thing about the change over was moving to
| Thunderbird from Outlook. No one has batted an eyelid about moving to Gnome.”
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/10/03/gameloft-moves-1000-desktops-to-ubuntu-linux/
CEO's Diary: Linux?
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| He has a set a number of practical tests. One was to test transitions to
| Windows Vista or Linux. People resisted both, but one no more than the other.
| So why not Linux?
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| As important, he’s tested Open Office on a trial group. After very little
| effort in translation most could hardly spot the difference from a Microsoft
| product. After all, most people hardly use any of the features in either.
|
| The big issue now is email management. If we can manage that and diary
| scheduling OK (which is a big question) the real issue is when some Linux
| platforms are now very stable and have long term support, why are we
| Microsoft based?
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http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=185613
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