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[News] Germany Moves Rapidly to Free Software and GNU/Linux

  • Subject: [News] Germany Moves Rapidly to Free Software and GNU/Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:21:20 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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DE: Rural district uses open source to manage IT at schools 

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| The rural district (Landkreis) Wittmund in 
| northwestern Germany is using GNU/Linux to 
| centrally manage computers usage at eleven of 
| its schools, reports Univention, one of the 
| open source IT companies involved in the 
| project. 
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http://www.osor.eu/news/de-rural-district-uses-open-source-to-manage-it-at-schools

Study: > 21% of German PCs run OpenOffice

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| According to Webmasterpro.de, a German IT 
| service provider, the open source OpenOffice 
| suite and its derivatives, such as StarOffice 
| or IBM's Lotus Symphony, are installed on 
| more than 21% of German PCs. A sample of over 
| one million German-speaking Internet users 
| showed that 72% of users preferred Microsoft 
| Office, while 2.7% preferred Corel's 
| WordPerfect, 1.4% used Apple's iWork, 0.3% 
| selected SoftMaker Office and 0.03% chose 
| KOffice. Among the surveyed German speaking 
| Internet users, 17.1% did not appear to have 
| an Office suite installed.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Study-21-of-German-PCs-run-OpenOffice-919501.html


Recent:

German web security office warns of "critical" flaws in Internet Explorer

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| Germany's Office for Information Security
| (BSI) has issued a warning against using
| Microsoftâs Internet Explorer (IE). The
| advisory follows cyber attacks against Google
| believed made possible by the IE weaknesses.
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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5132998,00.html
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