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Open Source Textbook Company Now BMOC At 400 Colleges
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| After a sort of beta earlier this year, Flat World is set to announce on
| Thursday that over 40,000 college students at more than 400 colleges are
| going to be using their digital, DRM-free textbooks in the Fall semester, up
| from 1,000 in 30 colleges in the Spring.
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http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/open-source-textbook-company-now-bmoc-at-400-colleges/
Is Open Source the Right Solution for Your Higher Ed Campus?
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| Edu1world, an online professional networking site for higher education
| technology professionals and practitioners, announced today the launch of
| an "Open Source Community" on edu1world.org.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/higher_ed_open_source/technology_professionals/prweb2769024.htm
Fast Growing University of Illinois Data Center Taps Opengear Open Source
Console Server for Out-of-Band Access
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| Opengear (www.opengear.com), a leading provider of next-generation console
| server and KVM over IP solutions, today announced that the University of
| Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Campus Information Technology and Educational
| Services (CITES), is using the Opengear CM4148 to manage all of the equipment
| in its data center.
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http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Opengear-1032820.html
Recent:
As textbook costs stack up, interest grows in e-books
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| âWhen Pluto becomes not a planet, you can fix it very quickly,â said Rich
| Baraniuk, an engineering professor at Rice University who pioneered the field
| of open source class materials. âIt's going to take a decade to get Pluto out
| of all the nation's printed science books.â
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6574256.html
Open source, digital textbooks coming to California schools
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| The cash-strapped Golden State has decided that, starting next school year,
| schools will be able to use open source, digital textbooks for a number of
| math and science subjects. Ars talked with Brian Bridges, the Director of the
| California Learning Resources Network, which will be reviewing the texts, to
| find out more about what the program entails.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/open-source-digital-textbooks-coming-to-california-schools.ars
Related:
Open Source Resolution Passed -- California
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| This is Great News and more evidence that the Open Voting idea is catching
| on.
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http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/archive/ovcannouncement/20070715193532/
California city connects with open-source networking
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| Reliance on open source has been inexpensive and stable, says IT
| manager for Madera, Calif.
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| In Madera's case, two Vyatta Inc. routers that run on the Debian
| GNU/Linux-based open-source operating system helped Wheeler consolidate
| routers in the city's data center last year. By eliminating eight Cisco
| routers that needed upgrading in order to accommodate additional traffic, he
| said he saved the city $16,000, spending about one-third of what he would
| have spent on the Cisco router upgrade.
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| In a more dramatic money-saving move, the city did a complete network upgrade
| to implement a voice-over-IP system based on Asterisk, an open-source PBX
| system from Digium Inc. in Huntsville, Ala. The Asterisk VoIP system cost
| about $120,000, whereas a Cisco system would have run about $400,000, he
| said.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=open_source&articleId=9027911&taxonomyId=88&intsrc=kc_top
http://tinyurl.com/32s83e
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