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[News] Europe Says Goodbye to Microsoft and Hello to Free Software, GNU/Linux

  • Subject: [News] Europe Says Goodbye to Microsoft and Hello to Free Software, GNU/Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:39:20 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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âBill Gates of Belgiumâ Fights SAP With Free Software

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| Free programs such as Linux first challenged 
| Microsoft Corp. in software that runs personal 
| computers. Linux has gradually gained enough 
| acceptance that government agencies and even 
| some corporations are willing to try such 
| programs for some of their most important 
| tasks: applications that run billing, payroll 
| and purchasing. 
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=a0Wy0DITQBiA

French Government Chooses Mozilla To Replace IBM and Microsoft For 130,000 Desktop PC's

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| The French Government's public finance 
| department will switch 130,000 desktop PC's to 
| Mozilla's email and calendar applications. 
| Mozilla's Thunderbird email service, Lightning 
| Calendar and an open-source groupware will 
| replace IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Office.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/10/french-government-chooses-mozi.php


Recent:

Publicis to Buy Microsoft's Razorfish

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| French advertising company Publicis Groupe SA has agreed to acquire Microsoft
| Corp.'s digital ad firm, Razorfish, in an effort to grab more of the ad
| dollars that are flowing to the Web.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124982318328817501.html
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