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Freespire 2.0 released

http://distrowatch.com

Freespire 2.0 has been released: "Freespire 2.0 is immediately available; the latest version of the free desktop Linux operating system. Building on the best of open source software using Ubuntu as its baseline, Freespire 2.0 adds legally licensed proprietary drivers, codecs, and applications in its core distribution

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Malaysia Lab to Build Enterprise Products Using Novell, Red Hat

http://www.linuxinsider.com

The facility is equipped with Basis Bay's Jazz Series servers, which will allow technopreneurs to use open source tools to develop high-end and mission-critical applications based on the Novell and Red Hat platforms for commercialization. Multimedia Development Corporation will provide pre-seed funding for the startups, CEO Datuk Badlisham Ghazali pointed out.

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Telco dumps Red Hat for Ubuntu

http://www.linuxworld.com.au

Providing location information to thousands of mobile phone users is all in a day's work for Ubuntu Linux, which has replaced popular enterprise distribution Red Hat for Locatrix Communications' mission-critical workloads.

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Road Warrior: Switching from Windows to Linux

http://members.whattheythink.com

Occasionally I have written about how Linux has become a viable alternative operating system for the desktop. Linux is a “free” operating system, and is the flagship offering of the open source software movement. Open source is software developed by a community of developers and offered at no charge to the public.

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Free versus paid support in open source

http://blogs.cnet.com

What does this mean if you're an enterprise hoping to hitch a free ride on an open-source project? Well, it means that you're better off paying a little money for professional support. Free support is good up to a point, but if that point ends when your job begins, you may be in a world of hurt without it.

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Re: Managing In The Open

http://talk.bmc.com

Hear that faint crowd noise like you're one block away from a heavy-weight boxing match that just ended in round one with some chump taking a dive? That would be your customers trying to get your attention.

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"Open source business model" takes on a new meaning with the Open Business Foundation

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The Open Business Foundation (OBF) operates on two premises: that the open source development community makes good business sense, and that small businesses can be more successful if they band together with each other to share resources of all kinds.

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Semantic Web at work?

http://www.oreillynet.com

“You[’d] better figure out what the Semantic Web is and soon, because its concepts have graduated from academia and are starting to contribute to your competitor’s bottom line.”

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Xandros and Scalix: A marriage of convenience

http://blogs.zdnet.com

Xandros is gambling that their transition from a desktop Linux player to an end-to-end Linux platform player will drive Xandros mindshare, so as to position them with the Linux “big boys.”

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Compiere: on the road to resurgence

http://blogs.cnet.com

Compiere has been in serious upgrade mode lately. It has been tweaking its business model, changing its management team (and adding an experienced CEO in enterprise software), and improving its community focus. I admit that I've been thinking that Compiere had missed its window of opportunity, but it feels like the company is on the right track.

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Collaborating with Mindquarry

http://www.linux.com

If there's one thing the world doesn't lack for, besides bad movie sequels and dishonest politicians, it's collaboration software. Good collaboration software that's open source, on the other hand, is a rare thing indeed -- so I was pleased to discover that the Mindquarry GO beta service and the Mindquarry tools are well-done, if a bit limited in scope.

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Cream 3.0 released, switches to MySQL

http://www.linux.com

Campware has released a new version of Cream, an open source customer relationship management (CRM) system for media organizations. The new release sports a switch to MySQL and a number of other new features and changes.

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Introducing the world's most advanced open source ERP system.

http://www.postgresql.org

PostBooks is a full-featured, fully-integrated accounting, ERP, and CRM system, based on the award winning OpenMFG ERP Suite.

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‘Big Four’ systems management vendors ripe for open source shake-up

http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com

A new research report from the New York-based 451 Group has found that the ‘Big Four’ systems management vendors — BMC, HP, IBM and CA — are “ripe for a shake-up from open source systems management players.”

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Vancouver law firm trades in MS for desktop Linux

http://www.itbusiness.ca

Downtime and virus issues prompt Whitelaw Twining to install SUSE. The switch was simple but not entirely trouble-free. Experts reveal what issues to look out for

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