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Monday, 04 January 2010 04:17
Spain pays 12m Euros to Telefonica to maintain open source web site
By David M Williams
Who said there isn’t money to be made in open source? The Spanish government has awarded a 12m Euro contract to Telefonica to maintain the…
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Wednesday, 23 December 2009 04:44
Trade-up your Microsoft licensing for FOSS to reduce costs
By David M Williams
While the worst of the recession may now be behind us business executives will still be looking for cost-reduction initiatives across the company. It’s time…
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Need something unique for the open source Linux-loving GNU-spouting Free Software Foundation member in your life? ThinkGeek has the answer in the form of commemorative…
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Sunday, 13 December 2009 09:24
Jeff Atwood, StackOverflow suffer 100% blog data loss
By David M Williams
Jeff Atwood, one of the two founders behind the popular StackOverflow question-and-answer site, has suffered a complete loss of his entire blog archive including both…
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While companies are increasingly keen to ensure their e-mailed communications are not mistaken for spam it appears end users still need to put in work…
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I am no fan of Microsoft Windows Small Business Server (SBS). Yet, it provides entry to the Windows server range of products at a reduced…
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Analyst and consultant Josh Greenbaum has criticised the European Commission’s view that Oracle should jettison MySQL. Part of his argument is that MySQL can’t die…
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People all over the world use computers for many different reasons. Yet, often Linux evangelists focus on those who already have a technical bent through…
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Friday, 27 November 2009 09:32
10.04 Good Buddy - Ubuntu Lucid Lynx sighted, gives up the GIMP
By David M Williams
Never one to rest on their laurels, the Ubuntu development team has rolled out the first daily build of next year’s Ubuntu 10.04 release just…
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Tetsuya Kitahata, self-described international social entrepreneur, and editor of ApacheNews.org has posted online that he is planning to end his life within the next few…
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