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Linux in the school office
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| We had all but given up on the FOSS MIS in UK
| schools and had resigned ourselves to
| virtualising an MS server instance on what
| otherwise would have been a pure Linux server
| stack just to run SIMS.
|
| However, it seems to me now to be a MIS-take!
| To elaborate on this it is necessary to look
| at the trends in the market.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2763&blogid=17
LSE and Intel
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| Thereâs news that the London Stock Exchange
| plans to move to GNU/Linux within 12 months.
| There is also a story on Groklaw about
| GNU/Linux meeting the needs of Intel better
| than that other OS ten years ago. GNU/Linux is
| a great OS.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/01/25/lse-and-intel/
Recent:
Troubled Â12bn NHS IT system to be scaled back
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| The government is to scale back its Â12bn NHS
| IT system in what the Tories are calling a
| "massive U-turn".
|
| Chancellor Alistair Darling said he would be
| delaying parts of the scheme in Wednesday's
| pre-Budget Report as it was "not essential to
| the frontline".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8397854.stm
Related:
Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policy
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| "A member of Parliament of the United Kingdom has launched a stinging
| attack on the U.K. government's IT strategy, saying that it has given
| Microsoft too much control.
|
| John Pugh, who is a member of Parliament, or MP, for Southport and a
| member of the Public Accounts Committee, was speaking in an
| adjournment debate on Tuesday that he had called. The aim of the
| debate, he said, was to explore the alternatives to using Microsoft
| software, including open source."
|
| [...]
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http://www.news.com/Lawmaker-blasts-U.K.-government-on-Microsoft-policy/2100-1012_3-6212721.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ashm2
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