Conference Attendees Illustrate Linux's Broad Reach
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| Stewart Savage, director of IT at the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School
| District in Fairfield, Calif., said the school system first brought Linux
| into its data center in 2002, primarily to cut costs. Now it uses Novell's
| SUSE Linux to support its Oracle databases and myriad applications, such as a
| Web content filtering tool.
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/59033.html
They are using the wrong ditro though. Red Hat (even Unbreakable's alternative)
would be better.
Foolish Forecast: Novell's New Focus
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| Don't get too excited by the cash flow jump in January -- that was $348
| million of up-front payments from Microsoft making its way onto the cash flow
| statement in a one-time deal. Excluding that windfall, free cash flow has
| been negative in each of the last two quarters.
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http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/08/27/foolish-forecast-novells-new-focus.aspx
This is a site of a Microsoft stock cheerleader (it's tied to MSNBC). It is
amazing how many people count server growth using 'revenue' as a criteria.
Analysts cannot understand and grasp the fact that Linux is deployed without a
purchase, e.g. at Google.
Related:
California may join rush of states toward ODF
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| A California legislator last Friday introduced a bill that would
| mandate the use of open, XML-based document file formats by the
| state government starting next January. It is the third such
| state-level legislation to be introduced this month.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=it_in_government&articleId=9011948&taxonomyId=69&intsrc=kc_top
http://tinyurl.com/39cyon
Notes from JEDE Committee Hearing [on AB 1668, ODF in California]
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| One of the more disappointing aspects of the hearing is that none of
| the bill's proponents made the moral argument - it's the right thing
| to do because government should not be in the business of handing
| competitive advantages to businesses. I don?t understand why this
| argument wasn't made, particularly when the bill?s opponents made
| the moral argument against, eg. "it's wrong to oppose free markets,"
| "government shouldn't mandate competitive advantage," etc.
|
| I also don't understand why no one pointed out that Microsoft has
| been free to participate in the standards body process for ODF and
| has chosen to go their own route, instead. I understand why Sun and
| others want to make the issue less about ODF, but someone needs to
| call Microsoft on the fact that their arguments are completely
| disengenuous.
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http://www.bytesfree.org/bfblog/index.php/2007/04/19/notes-from-jede-committee-hearing/
California city connects with open-source networking
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| Reliance on open source has been inexpensive and stable, says IT
| manager for Madera, Calif.
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| [...]
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| In Madera's case, two Vyatta Inc. routers that run on the Debian
| GNU/Linux-based open-source operating system helped Wheeler consolidate
| routers in the city's data center last year. By eliminating eight Cisco
| routers that needed upgrading in order to accommodate additional traffic, he
| said he saved the city $16,000, spending about one-third of what he would
| have spent on the Cisco router upgrade.
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| In a more dramatic money-saving move, the city did a complete network upgrade
| to implement a voice-over-IP system based on Asterisk, an open-source PBX
| system from Digium Inc. in Huntsville, Ala. The Asterisk VoIP system cost
| about $120,000, whereas a Cisco system would have run about $400,000, he
| said.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=open_source&articleId=9027911&taxonomyId=88&intsrc=kc_top
http://tinyurl.com/32s83e
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