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New Zealand School Shows Microsoft the Door
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| Familiarity undoubtedly ranks among the
| largest barriers to open source adoption â
| software, like so many other things, is
| habit-forming. Much of that familiarity, at
| least among younger users, comes from the
| prevalence of proprietary applications in
| education, an area awash with government
| regulations, competitive bidding, and its own
| habit-induced hangups.
|
| Enter Albany Senior High School, an Auckland,
| New Zealand-based unorthodox enclave of
| education. The school, which opened its doors
| in 2009, takes a different approach to
| learning, utilizing open principles that
| include open spaces, open interaction, open
| opportunities â and open source.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/new-zealand-school-shows-microsoft-the-door
Oracle and Apple: This Week's Big Tech News and What it Means for Linux
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| While Apple's announcement got most of the
| attention, Oracle+Sun is of more interest to
| most in the Linux community. Specifically,
| after waiting something like nine months to
| move forward with the acquisition, it's
| finally real and Oracle is discussing its
| roadmaps for all of Sun's product lines. Or
| most of them, anyway.
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http://www.linux.com/news/software/multimedia/281382:oracle-and-apple-this-weeks-big-tech-news-and-what-it-means-for-linux
Recent:
NZ school ditches Microsoft and goes totally open source
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| A New Zealand high school running entirely
| on open source software has slashed its
| server requirements by a factor of almost
| 50, despite a government deal mandating the
| use of Microsoft software in all schools.
|
| [...]
|
| The implementation uses Ubuntu on the
| desktop and Mandriva for four key servers
| (one firewall, one storage and two KVM
| hypervisors). Mandriva was selected because
| of the ease of using Mandriva Directory
| Server to manage the school's LDAP
| directory, but Brennan said either desktop
| or server OS could easily be replaced.
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http://www.cio.com.au/article/333686/nz_school_ditches_microsoft_goes_totally_open_source
Kiwi high school issues shot heard around the open source world
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| A New Zealand high school has defied the
| national government and struck a blow heard
| around the world of open source.
|
| Albany Senior High School is ignoring a deal
| worked out between the National Party
| government and Microsoft and claims it is
| saving a bundle.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5690
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