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Migrating to Linux: How and Why

10/16/2008  II
Relevance: 6.98
Linux is firmly established in the embedded market, but migrating existing source code to the operating system is a considerable undertaking. Hans Juergen Rauscher explores the different steps necessary to migrate, the technical requirements and possible pitfalls, and the differences between buying an established Linux implementation and developing and maintaining one internally.
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The entire State of Pahang moves to OpenOffice.org

08/14/2008  II
Relevance: 6.45
Its just been made official that the State of Pahang is migrating all its productivity suites to OpenOffice.org. This succinct memo from the State Secretary of Pahang entitled"Perlaksanaan Penggunaan Perisian OpenOffice.Org Di Semua Agensi dan Pentadbiran Negeri" (translated:"Implementation of OpenOffice.org suite in all State Agencies and Administrative centres") outlines the reasons for migrating, the benefits and how to proceed.
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Replacing high-end Unix with enterprise Linux? Not so fast.

11/25/2008  I
Relevance: 6.07
Migrating from high-end Unix-based systems to commodity x86/Linux platforms has been a popular idea for the last few years, at least in theory. But it turns out that not everyone thinks going full-on with Linux is the best solution -- at least not yet. Dan Blanchard, vice president of enterprise operations at Marriott International Inc., is serious about Linux. He says his company's transition from HP-UX and IBM AIX is ongoing -- and inevitable."We're migrating and we have a strategy to continue deployment of Linux," he says."A 100% transition will take place over several years and will be completed as technology is refreshed and as other opportunities arise."
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Migrating to the Newest Linux File System ext4

05/07/2008  IIII
Relevance: 6.02
Ext4 is the latest in a long line of Linux file systems, and it's likely to be as important and popular as its predecessors. As a Linux system administrator, you should be aware of the advantages, disadvantages, andbasic steps for migrating to ext4. This article explains when to adopt ext4, how to adapt traditional file system maintenance tool usage to ext4, and how to get the most out of the file system.
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Calif. school district aims 5,000 desktops at Linux

03/07/2007  I
Relevance: 5.37
A school district technology director is making wholesale changes in her employer's IT system by migrating most of 5,000 Windows desktops to a new setup based primarily on Linux-powered desktop PCs and thin clients. The change aims to reduce annual costs, offer many more applications, and use less energy. Windsor, Calif. School District IT administrator Heather Carver is migrating most of the district's 70 servers and most of its 5,000 desktop machines from a mostly-Windows environment that is quickly becoming obsolete to a new mixed environment that includes PCs running SUSE Linux, Wyse Linux thin-client terminals, and a smattering of Mac and Windows machines.
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What vendors really mean by'open source'

12/19/2008  I
Relevance: 4.87
Like me, you've probably read articles on how free software, or open source, is going to thrive in 2009, and how businesses everywhere are going to survive the recession by migrating to it.
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Migrating to Linux in the Enterprise Using Vendor-independent Formats

07/17/2007  II
Relevance: 4.77
An impulsive and immediate migration to Linux can sometimes lead to disappointment. Ambitious businesses are sometimes led to believe that their data can merely be be dumped from one platform onto another, but the reality is a little more complex than this.
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Port MySQL PHP applications to the DB2 on i5/OS

11/16/2006  IIIIII
Relevance: 4.66
This Article includes information about what types of architectures exist for PHP, how to install PHP, how to use the DB2 database with PHP on the i5/OS and how to Migrating PHP applications from MySQL to DB2 on System i.
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What drives a mass Linux migration?

06/07/2008  II
Relevance: 4.62
Nothing warms the cockles of a Linux lover's heart more than to hear that X or Y big company/city is migrating its desktops to the free operating system. And nothing can evoke more bitter insults than the reversal of any such decision.
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Euro firms cool on Vista and Linux

11/16/2006  IIIIII
Relevance: 4.59
European businesses are only considering migrating to Linux when they decide to deploy new applications, but most currently have no intention of moving to Windows Vista either, according to a survey released this week.
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