… says the headline of this piece in The Noblesville Ledger; does this local newspaper in Indiana know something we don’t? Unhappily not; for the good folk of Hamilton County, NHS is the TLA for Noblesville High School so only a small victory for open source.
Warming to the theme of open source in education, […]
Earlier this year the European Union published a very upbeat landmark assessment of the economic impact of FLOSS in Europe despite heavy pressure from you-know-who. How heavy is described here:
according to its lead author Rishab Ghosh.
“There were critical comments from CompTIA. There were others: Microsoft, the software alliance [The Initiative for Software Choice] — […]
In what may prove to be the most important FLOSS story we have blogged since starting in May 2005:
The European Commission (Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry) has published a research study prepared by Rishab Gosh and his team at UNU-MERIT.
Study on the: Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of […]
… in a Guardian interview with John Pugh MP. Things have moved on a little since the interview - 112 MPs have now signed Early Day Motion 179. Go here for our previous posts on this topic, which has been on the radar for well over a month now.
Also this week, BECTA published […]
“The challenge we have in the Web 2.0 world is to invent new kinds of lock-in.”
Kings College School in Cambridge recently switched to an open source network infrastructure in partnership with Sirius Corporation. The move was not just an exercise in saving money - the move has also saved the IT staff precious time. Wendy Harris, the network manager at the school, said:
“Without open source we would spend our […]
Nicholas Negroponte, head of the One (lime-green) Laptop Per Child project, called last week for Linux to be slimmed down for use on the project’s devices.
[Linux] suffers the same code bloat as Windows, [Negroponte] said Tuesday.
“People aren’t thinking about small, fast, thin systems,” said Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the One Laptop Per Child nonprofit […]
Two different American healthcare providers have found two different reasons to switch to open source from proprietary solutions.
Catholic Healthcare West, from the golden state of California, were after consolidation, consistency and efficiency. Their move started with a drive for open standards to avoid reliance on a single vendor, which eventually led to an interest […]
The company’ online entertainment division is to migrate several of the databases serving its gaming community to OSS provided by EnterpriseDB. A company veep justified the decision to go open on the grounds of licensing costs and the decision to go with EnterpriseDB on the grounds of their compatibility with Oracle’s software.
Hot on the heels of MIT’s Simputer comes the Solo computer. The challenge: to create a “computer for Africa” with it’s dust, heat and “power issues”. The resultant solar-powered box, created by the Fantsuam Foundation, will run Debian Linux.
Meanwhile, China’s Shanghai Menglan Group are looking to tap demand for laptops in the country’s vast rural […]
Vyatta, a tiny (stealthy, in the words of CNN) tech startup, have released the first beta of the open source routing software XORP, or eXtensible Open Routing Platform, with which it hopes to take on the near-ubiquitous Cisco systems. In contrast to most other offerings, the software can run on bog-standard x86 architecture, one of […]
… will be held in Belfast on Thursday March 16th. The event, aimed at business managers, IT execs and anyone interested, will focus on the economic and competetive benefits of FOSS in the public and private sectors and boasts Bruce Perens and Richard Stallman as keynote speakers. It runs from a civilised 10:00am to 5:30pm […]
Dell has been lifting its skirt to the OSS community, after welching on its mooted plan to ship Linux-powered PCs with a sloppy, nobody’s happy compromise, by starting to advertise workstations that come with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 installed.
The spookily named SARS (South African Revenue Service - their Inland Revenue) has been sounding […]
An OSDL-funded independent survey - cheekily entitled “Get the Truth” - looking at the use of OSS by IT organisations has concluded that Linux is both cheaper and easier to deploy and maintain than Microsoft software. EMA, who conducted the survey, contacted thousands of organisations using OSS and mixed solutions to interview their CIOs and […]
Financial services firm E-Trade Financial are lucky enough to have Lee Thompson as their architecture manager. In an interview at eWeek he explains how his company now saves millions of dollars annually after switching from Sun Solaris-based servers to IBM Linux systems. Steven Vaughan Nicholls, also at eWeek asks what we can learn - particularly […]
Head teachers from around the country are to visit a school in East Anglia that managed to build a computer suite for just £1,000 through the prodigious use of open source software and Linux.
Should someone in your life need converting, here are 25 good reasons to ditch Windows and go Linux, courtesy of Belle Vue Linux.
Three stories from the continent….
The South African province of eThekwini has announced it is to base it’s entire intranet and internet portal on open source tools.
The government of Uganda is being called upon to emulate the likes of Brazil and China by adopting low-cost FOSS solutions to bring ICT to rural areas
Nigerian daily Vanguard today […]
PC-manufacturer Mirus has teamed up with preocious desktop penguin evangelists Linspire (nee Lindows) to start producing PCs pre-installed with Linux and a host of FOSS apps including OOo. The boxes will form the KooBox range, which start at $299 for a 2.8 GHz AMD.
You might remember that the NHS signed a big contract with Novell last week. We now have more details, particularly the revelation that the service has its eye on a £75 million saving with the £ 22 million contract.