The Department of Human Services in the Australian state of Victoria has implemented MySource Matrix as its content management system (CMS).
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Public Schools, Open Source Software and Linux
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Last school year, I worked as a technology coordinator for a rural high school in Illinois. In an attempt to save the school some money, I introduced OpenOffice.org, GIMP, Firefox, and Thunderbird. Linux was also installed on a few desktop PCs and a couple of servers. Ubuntu was the Linux distribution selected.
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Lowering Barriers to Entry: Open Source and the Enterprise
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Contrary to published reports and popular opinion alike, the most important impact of open source on the enterprise has not been on pricing. The single most important impact of open source upon the enterprise has been the removal of barriers to entry and adoption - all thanks to open source’s ability to empower individual developers and architects.
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Public Sector Warms to Open Source
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Public sector and government organizations around the world are adopting increasingly mature open-source products, with Australia at the front of the trend.
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Migrating from Windows to Linux: the gentle guide
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Linux has long been held in mystique as an operating system for hard-core techies or hackers. Yet, this is far from true for today’s distros. A modern version of Linux is as easy to setup and use as the Macintosh is legendary for. Here’s reasons why people stick to Windows and how those factors can be solved in what we like to call a ‘gentle’ approach to Linux.
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Linux Servers Continue Growth
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Linux servers posted the fifth consecutive quarter of accelerating revenue growth, with year-over-year revenue growth of 19.0%, for a total of $1.8 billion in the quarter. Linux servers now represent 13.6% of all server revenue, up from 12.1% a year ago.
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Linux-alliance sets free school software in Russia
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Russian Linux software developers have created an alliance to jointly participate in tenders to supply schools with open source software. The total number of specialist entering the alliance has exceeded the given number in Mandriva and Ubuntu Canonical producer, all in all.
Read more »GPLv3 adoption is up 14% week-over-week
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California-based IP gurus Palamida emailed me this week with some intriguing GPLv3 information that I thought I’d share with everyone this morning. Apparently all the GPLv3 haters can go to lunch, because the little license that could is seeing adoption rates of approximately 14% week-over-week.
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Norway opens Free Software Center
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Norway opened a national center for competence in Free Software in Drammen, near Oslo, on Wednesday.
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Creating an Open Source Strategy - Part 2
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Our first step was to create an inventory of the open source products that we use at my IT shop. We have a few areas within the organization that were early adopters of OSS and have a variety of products in use. When polling the staff for OSS products, I expected to find between 20-30 actively being used.
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Making My Grandparents Leet Linux Users - Part 1
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It was time for a new computer for my Grandparents. Their ancient Windows 98 PC had become so slow that it was unusable. The replacement, an inexpensive Acer PC, came with Windows Vista preinstalled. It was up to me to set up the new computer and support it. So I decided to wipe out Vista with a Debian 4 base install and set up an easy to use environment for my Grandparents.
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Virgin America migrates to Red Hat Linux
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New US airline Virgin America has migrated to Red Hat Linux to host its website.
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Forrester: Businesses still saying no to Vista
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An anticipated rush by businesses to adopt Windows Vista hasn't materialized as IT managers stick with familiar systems and wait for the release of Vista Service Pack 1
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GPLv3: past the 5K mark, and going strong
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I still continue to find articles on the internet downplaying the seemingly normal and sweeping adoption and acceptance of the GPLv3 license. This should point out a few things that indicate that GPLv3 is "here to stay".
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Mozilla's Lawyer Isn't a GPLv3 Fan
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The GPL version 3 has been out for six weeks, and the debate about whether to adopt it remains heated.
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