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DE: Foreign ministry: 'Cost of Open Source desktop maintenance is by far the lowest'
Open Source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry.
Linux takes a seat on Qantas' new superjumbo
Linux will be a passenger in every seat on Qantas' Airbus A380s airplanes.
Open Document Format - ODF Alliance
As documents and services are increasingly transformed from paper to electronic form, there is a growing problem that governments and their constituents may not be able to access, retrieve and use critical records, information and documents in the future. To enable the public sector to have greater control over and direct management of their own records, information and documents, the ODF Alliance seeks to promote and advance the use of OpenDocument Format (ODF).
OSS slashes geospatial costs for South African Government
Open source software reduced the government’s software expenses for geospatial services massively. This is according to Sindile Bidla, deputy director of the Eastern Cape’s Spatial Information Services’ chief directorate for spatial planning and information
Brazil begins using the Open Document Format
The Brasília Protocol (now translated to English) started the process of implementation of the Open Document Format (ODF) within the Brazilian Government.
Venezuela orders 1 million [Linux-based] laptops from Portugal
LISBON, Portugal: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday ordered 1 million low-cost laptops from Portugal — one of several bilateral deals that Portuguese officials valued at more than US$3 billion.
Sweden: ODF made national standard
The Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) approved the Open Document Format (ODF) as a national standard, the ODF Alliance reported this week.
Will Open Source Breathe New Life Into Health Care Cost Savings?
A California bill calls for interoperable records and a full, hospital-running health care IT system that's open source. That's music to provider Medsphere, which backs OpenVista.
Linux triumphs in UK schools as hell freezes over
This post comes hard on the heels of an important piece of news... at least two Open Source companies have become part of the Becta's official list of suppliers to the education sector.
Open-source software gets a plug from Congress
IT’S RARE TO see a concept as technical as open-source software in a federal funding bill. But the House’s proposed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (H.R. 5658) (GCN.com, Quickfind 1209) includes language that calls for military services to consider open-source software when procuring manned or unmanned aerial vehicles.
Asia set to 'give back' to Open Source
Asia is in the middle of a mass adoption wave of open source technology, and the floodgates of innovation will open following this wave in two to three years, according to open source vendors.
Virginia Announces Physics [Open Source] 'Flexbook' Solicitation
RICHMOND — Secretary of Technology Aneesh Chopra and Secretary of Education Tom Morris today announced the release of a Request for Collaboration (RFC) to career and technical centers, school divisions, and institutions of higher education calling for assistance in the development and publication of an open source physics "Flexbook" for Virginia.
Brazilian government owned IT enterprise SERPRO selects Debian GNU/Linux for its servers
The Servico Federal de Processamento de Dados (SERPRO), (a US$ 1 billion annual revenue Brazilian government owned IT enterprise), announced during the Debian Day Brasil 2008 Porto Alegre that it has selected Debian GNU/Linux as the preferred distribution for its hundreds of GNU/Linux development and production servers.
More Ways That Open Source Could Benefit Schools
Some data on how doable it might be to put a Linux netbook or notebook in the hand of every kid in school, paying for the effort by getting schools to go paperless--or near-paperless
Yahoo Claims Record With Petabyte [FOSS] Database
Yahoo claims it has the largest SQL database [PostgreSQL - Free, Open Source Software] in a production environment and that it will grow larger.
FOSS for Students [ A Gold Mine of Great Software]
Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) offer an incredible wealth of great software for high school and college students.
Travelocity's parent company hails Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Sabre Holdings Corp., the $3 billion online network best known for Travelocity, has adopted Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as the corporate standard for its global ticketing and airline services businesses and will implement RHEL 5 in all future acquisitions.
Free digital texts begin to challenge costly college textbooks in California
Would-be reformers are trying to beat the high cost -- and, they say, the dumbing down -- of college materials by writing or promoting open-source, no-cost online texts.
The entire State of Pahang [Malaysia] moves to OpenOffice.org
Its just been made official that the State of Pahang [Malaysia] is migrating all its productivity suites to OpenOffice.org. This succint memo from the State Secretary of Pahang entitled "Perlaksanaan Penggunaan Perisian OpenOffice.Org Di Semua Agensi dan Pentadbiran Negeri" (translated: "Implementing the use of OpenOffice.org suite in all State Agencies and Administrative centres") outlines the reasons for migrating, the benefits and how to proceed.
Call for Asia to adopt ODF
SINGAPORE--An official from the United Nations (U.N.) has called for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to embrace the OpenDocument format.
OpenDocument (ODF) in the European Union
Various articles, Reports and Official Announcements regarding ODF Document Standard in the European Union (EU)
Polish Ministry of Education recommends Open Source
The Polish Ministry of National Education is advising schools and universities to use Open Source software. The recommendation comes at the end of a volunteer campaign to help schools switch to Open Source.
Portugal Rings Up Big Order for Intel's [Linux based] Classmate PCs
Intel scored a win in the low-cost PC race Wednesday with news that the government of Portugal plans to distribute half a million of the company's Classmate [Linux] PCs to its school kids.
Open standards key for SA (South African) govt - minister
Open source software and open standards were high on the agenda at the opening of the GovTech 2008 conference in Durban this morning.
BT joins Enterprise Open Source Community
BT (British Telecom) has joined FossBazaar, an enterprise Open Source Community and Workgroup of the Linux Foundation.
Open Source College Revolution
Moodle is trying to lead the break by putting its open source course management system into Amazon’s cloud. Moodle is a Sourceforge Community Choice Award finalist. It’s good stuff.
NTT America and Internet Systems Consortium Advance IPv6
Internet Systems Consortium, (ISC) a non-profit public benefit corporation, and NTT America, a U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, announced that the ISC's IPv6 infrastructure has been enhanced by a donation of a GigE link from NTT America, an IP network services provider and operator of the Tier 1 IPv6 backbone.
Belgian government chooses OpenDocument
Belgium's Council of Ministers last month approved a proposal that requires federal government departments to use open file formats for exchanging documents.
Bid to Push FOSS in Australian Secondary Schools
A group of free and open source advocates in Australia has made a timely move to try and increase the use of FOSS in the nation's secondary schools.
Hospital Dumps Microsoft Exchange for Linux Solution
Moses Taylor Hospital in Pennsylvania replaces Microsoft Exchange for Linux Solutions at considerably lower costs and increased efficiency.
The New York Stock Exchange - N.Y.S.E. - banks on Linux
NYSE adopts Red Hat Enterprise Linux for $140 billion-a-day trading platform.
Purdue University builds Supercomputer in Hal Day.
Purdue University IT Dept. builds a Supercomputer in only "Half Day", deploying 812 Dell PCs, and by IT Staff and graduate Students. Using RedHat Enterprise Linux of course WOW!.
NSA Attacks West Point! Relax, It's a Cyber Exercise
West Point Military Academy, with senior cadets and technology staff stave off Cyber Attacks from - no less - the US Government National Security Agency (NSA) - all in an exercise to help prepare USA for such foreign attack.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange moves operations to RHEL Linux
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has moved it's entire Trading Operations from Sun Solaris UNIX to RedHat Enterprise Linux.
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