After conducting an evaluation of alternatives, [a] hospital [in Scranton, Pa.] decided not to upgrade to a newer version of Exchange. Instead, it went with a Linux-based Exchange clone that it felt could meet the needs of its 700 users without forcing them and IT to learn a whole new system.
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Novell's Linux business up 31 percent
Yes, Novell has a ways to go to catch up with Red Hat, but with yet another strong quarter it's becoming increasingly clear that the enterprise Linux market is a two-horse race again. Importantly, Novell is competing much more strongly without backup from Microsoft.
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5 Ways the End-User Desktop Will Look Different in 5 Years
Look around your organization. What does your end-user desktop environment look like? Windows-based PCs? Docked laptops? Some combination thereof? Look around your organization five years from now, and the desktop landscape will appear very different.
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Spanish small free software companies have a brand new voice: ASOLIF
"The federation of spanish free software companies' associations (ASOLIF) was born few weeks ago. 7 regional small free software companies associations has joined efforts and have founded ASOLIF, which envolves a hundred free software spanish companies aprox.. Another 3 regional associations will get into the federation soon..."
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A Beginners Guide to a FOSS/Linux Business and How to Boil Water.
So, you have all this wonderful FOSS/Linux know how and a passion for it. Your passion is so great that you want to make a living doing it. That is sooo cool. But before you do, you need to learn how to boil to water and develop a solid business model around it so you can actually make money.
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Survey: Open source is entering the enterprise mainstream
Open-source solutions used to be adopted quietly by company boffins who snuck in an Apache Web server or an open-source development tool suite under the philosophy "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission" (not to mention "It's easier to do it with open-source tools than to get an IT budget").
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ProcessMaker uses open source inside and out
ProcessMaker is an open source workflow manager that works either on the client side or as a hosted application. Founder Brian Reale began developing ProcessMaker in 2002 after working with the South American Telecommunications Regulatory Institution to create a "paperless office."
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High flyer hangs hat on open source
Whitehurst says Red Hat has hit the big time with blue-chip clients such as the New York Stock Exchange and National Australia Bank, but he recognises the company still has a long way to go.
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What Joost Says About Linux
This is what Joost really thinks of Linux...we're not part of their "business objectives"...I'm done with them.
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Canonical Releases Ubuntu for Netbooks
The paint has barely dried on Ubuntu 8.04 when Canonical announced at the Computex trade show in Taiwan on June 3rd that it will be releasing a new version of Ubuntu 8.04 just for Intel Atom-based netbooks and UMPCs (Ultra Mobile PCs).
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Why Linux won the embedded market?
One story not told often enough involves Linux’ growing domination of the embedded market. In this space Linux usually stacks up against older Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS). The decision by Wind River, the largest RTOS vendor, to migrate toward Linux was a turning point.
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Why Novell is cashing in on Linux
Novell made some, but not a lot of money from Linux in its second fiscal quarter, which ended April 30, 2008. The real news though isn’t the Linux income itself–$29-million–it’s that Novell year-over-year growth in Linux is up a healthy 31%.
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Freeing up the future: Is open source best for business?
We spend $1 trillion on software every year, writing off around twenty percent in failed applications. Not only is open source software free, but many are now claiming it works better too. Exec finds out more.
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EnterpriseDB snags Red Hat sales VP as CEO
Open-source database vendor EnterpriseDB Inc. Wednesday said it has appointed a senior sales executive from Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. as its new CEO.
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Risky Business: Predicting that open source vendors will ultimately win
've been blogging about OSS for nearly 2 years now. My in-the-trenches experience with OSS goes back to early 2004. The constant drumbeat of "proprietary software is dead, open source is the only path forward" has been deafening at times. I'll admit that I, too, used to espouse similar words. But, I am fortunate enough to work with colleagues who've been in the software industry since day one.
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