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German police union wants Linux instead of Windows

11/18/2007  
Relevance: 8.54
The Berlin-based union of the German police issued a press release two days ago, where they said that their 'Poliks' system to handle reports isn't stable and reliable enough. The demand of the police union now is to drop the Microsoft-based software and to reconsider the usage of free and open source systems instead. The saved money could then be used to pay the officers their full christmas gratification.
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Union Bank of California standardises IT on Red Hat

01/29/2007  
Relevance: 7.62
The Company migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux from AIX to realize significant performance gains as well as centralized, secure management through Red Hat Network. Union Bank is also piloting JBoss as well as MySQL and plans to make Red Hat's complete solution stack part of its core technology direction.
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EU accuses Rambus of 'patent ambush'

08/24/2007  
Relevance: 6.77
European Union regulators have charged Rambus Inc. with antitrust abuse, alleging the memory chip designer demanded"unreasonable" royalties for its patents that were fraudulently set as industry standards.[May not seem like a Linux article, but think of things like OOXML and the Mono Project. The European Union is acting against Rambus for submitting standards for certification without disclosing that the standards could not be met without patented technology. - dinotrac]
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Q&A: Why Union Bank scrapped AIX for Red Hat

02/23/2007  
Relevance: 6.56
As Linux establishes itself as a mainstream operating system, and open source tools and applications prove their enterprise readiness, a growing number of organizations are talking publicly about their open source deployments and direction. Recently, Mok Choe, CTO at Union Bank in Monterrey Park, Calif., spoke with Network World Senior Editor Jennifer Mears about the financial institution’s decision to scrap proprietary Unix systems for commodity servers running Red Hat Linux.
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Linux Foundation Partners with Chinese OSS Promotion Union to Host Linux Developer Symposium in Beijing

12/18/2007  
Relevance: 6.11
The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced an agreement with the Chinese OSS Promotion Union (COPU), to jointly host the Linux Developer Symposium in Beijing, China, February 19– 20, 2008. The Symposium will address desktop, server and embedded Linux opportunities and will include well-known speakers such as Jonathan Corbet, Coly Li, Matt Mackall, Andrew Morton, Dave Neary and Jim Zemlin.
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European Union sponsors new FOSS education portal

09/07/2007  
Relevance: 5.92
Heavily funded by the European Union, the Science, Education, and Learning in Freedom (SELF) consortium launched the beta version of its site this week with the motto,"Be SELFish, share your knowledge!" By the end of the year, SELF hopes to develop into the Wikipedia of free learning materials, with a heavy emphasis on material about open standards and free and open source software (FOSS). All contributions, says David Megías, a Lecturer at the University of Catalonia and one of the SELF's organizers, will be"encouraged and accepted, unless they have to be removed for legal reasons." The twist here is that all contributions will be evaluated by the community, so that users can assess the quality of the materials that they are using.
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Who Really Won in Microsoft vs. the EU?

10/26/2007  
Relevance: 5.02
My colleague over at Microsoft Watch, Joe Wilcox, declared that"Microsoft bowed before the EU and took its whipping." Eh, after a couple of days to look at the decision, I don't think so. At best, I'd say the European Union got the more favorable end of a draw.
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Why Microsoft's New EU Fine is Just Fine

02/29/2008  
Relevance: 4.97
News that Microsoft is to be hit with yet another fine from the European Union has naturally attracted plenty of attention, but it has also raised the old questions of whether such interventions by governments are justified or even do any good.
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SLAX 6.0: How does it work?

01/15/2008  
Relevance: 4.88
PolishLinux.org has an unconventional review of SLAX 6.0 RC6 which focuses on exploring the nature of LiveCDs and the power of technologies like mounting devices, SquashFS and Union File System in regards to SLAX LiveCD distribution.
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EU Increases Support Open Source Solutions

10/13/2006  
Relevance: 4.57
October 13th, 2006: The European Union Commission is getting behind open source software with the creation of a web portal it hopes will increase public sector adoption of open solutions.
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