Open-Xchange Inc., the market-leading independent open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange, today announced a special program for Zimbra customers concerns about their investment in light of the pending Microsoft/Yahoo deal.
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The Pulse of Open Source
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I started posting to Twitter just over a year ago after many close friends spent concerted effort trying to convince me (and many others) to join. My first post was “Is this more than a fad?”, a thought most new Twitter users have (Note: It’s no fad - Twitter has resonated with many people and site traffic is staggering).
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A Simple Feature of Ubuntu 8.04 That Could Be So Important
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Imagine trying to expose a large number of people (people you might not know personally) to Ubuntu all at once. The logical thing to do is, of course, give them a CD. So what are they going to do with that CD?
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Mark Shuttleworth Reveals Definitive List of Ubuntu Code Names
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As has been widely reported, Mark Shuttleworth announced last week that Ubuntu 8.10, (due in October) will be codenamed "Intrepid Ibex".
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Can We Take Microsoft at Its Open Source Word?
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It's a radical departure, this news from Microsoft (MSFT) that openness between its products and the rest of the universe is more than a hollow platitude. To take Microsoft at its Word, given this release, is to open an era of an entirely new Microsoft. But is it?
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Linux growing fast in POS, Microsoft still tops
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In the North American market for POS (point of sales/service) terminals, Linux grew 32 percent year-over-year, according to figures released by IHL Group. The research firm reckons Linux accounted for $475 million of the $5.56 billion market, putting it third overall with an 8.5 percent market share.
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Ubuntu: Linux's Obama (Sort Of)
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What is it about Ubuntu that has generated such excitement about Linux? To steal a word from Obama's playbook, "Change."
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Blogger, Revealed
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So now that it’s happened, let me introduce myself. My name is Rick Frenkel. I started in IP over 10 years ago, as a law clerk at Lyon & Lyon in Los Angeles. After a few years there as a law clerk and attorney, I litigated patent cases for several years at Irell & Manella. Two years ago I moved to the Valley and went in-house at Cisco. In my career, I have represented plaintiffs, defendants, large companies, small companies, individual inventors, universities, and everything in between. I currently work at Cisco.
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A quick look at the new Qt 4.4 Print Dialog
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I've finally set up a VirtualBox session for KDE 4.1 development with Qt 4.4 installed, so I've been able to have a quick play with the new QPrintDialog, and it's a huge improvement. Hopefully I'm not stealing anyones thunder here, but I thought we should have a quick peek.
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KDE 4 Tour: digiKam 0.10
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digiKam is a fantastic KDE application used to sort, arrange and manipulate digital photographs. It features: fetching pictures from a camera, cataloguing and complex editing. It also enables you to add comments to photos, tag them and rate your collection.
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My Computer Lab nearly ready
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Yesterday I saw the monitors for my computer lab stacked outside of the IT Room at the American International School were I teach Computer Science part time. It was a nice site to see. By Monday, my student’s should be returning to Linux after a long 3 weeks away from it. I
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Version 0.9 of GNU ed released
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"I am pleased to announce the release of GNU ed 0.9. GNU ed is an 8-bit clean, more or less POSIX-compliant implementation of the standard Unix line editor. The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/ed.html The sources can be dowloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ed/ or from your favorite GNU mirror..."
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Grml - new stable releases available: grml 1.1, grml64 0.2, grml[64]-medium 0.1
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"We have new stable releases: grml 1.1 with codename Skunk is available. Take a look at the release announcement for details about all the nifty new features..."
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Adobe Opens Up (A Bit)
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It will come as no surprise to readers of this blog that the old proprietary software companies are finally seeing the light and beginning – some faster, some slower – to open up. Adobe is one such company, and to consolidate its moves it has set up a new site, called simply Adobe Open Source
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Persnickety Linux Isn't Doing Itself Any PR Favours
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After much disassembly, cleaning, and reassembly, I had a functioning computer. The included hard drive was dead, so I swapped in another that I'd pre-installed Ubuntu to. That worked fine, but I thought that so long as I had a "test computer" at my disposal I'd use the opportunity to try out a few untried distros I had sitting around: OpenSUSE 10.3, Mepis 7.0 and Mandriva 2008.
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