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Enterprise Applications Go Open Source
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| In this eWEEK podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, xTuple CEO Ned Lilly explains
| how the current economic climate is helping to drive the open-source
| phenomenon into the enterprise application arena.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Enterprise-Applications-Go-Open-Source-724174/
Recent:
Ubuntu in South African Schools
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| Over the last month, I've heard that the government's licensing agreement
| with Microsoft is now about to expire and has not been renewed yet.
| Apparently, the Department of Education is now pushing schools into switching
| to Linux as otherwise they will need to budget for a couple of extra million
| just for software licensing fees.
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| It's surprising to me though that they are only pushing for this now. They
| should have started the transition quite some time ago. Linux has matured a
| lot as a desktop operating system (with no small thanks to Ubuntu) and it's
| much better to get your learners familiar with Linux and decrease your
| dependency on any particular software vendor regardless of your current
| agreements.
|
| [...]
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| So of course, now the question is, how many will start to adopt Linux?
| Obviously, as you can expect, there will be a lot of fighting and kicking by
| lots of the schools. The teachers know what they know and obviously feel much
| more comfortable sticking with what they have. However, money talks, and now
| the pressure is (apparently) on.
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http://blog.charlvn.za.net/2009/02/ubuntu-in-south-african-schools.html
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