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[News] Why British Schools Require GNU/Linux and Not Fog Computing or Proprietary Software

  • Subject: [News] Why British Schools Require GNU/Linux and Not Fog Computing or Proprietary Software
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:28:56 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Linux, not the cloud, will save schools

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| Free, Open Source Software (FOSS) offers schools colleges 
| and the public sector in general enormous savings. These 
| savings are wide ranging. They encompass software purchase 
| and licencing costs, support overheads and energy 
| consumption. If you want to cut spending then you need 
| FOSS.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2538&blogid=17


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'Grid computing Red Hat' lands elephant on VMware cloud

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| Cloudera - the star-studded Silicon Valley startup that commercialized the
| epic number crunching of the open source Hadoop project - is now offering a
| version of its stuffed elephant distro for use on VMWare's imminent vCloud.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/31/cloudera_hadoop_on_vmware_vcloud/
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