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Microsoft Brasil's president, Emilio Umeoka, said that ideology led Brazil's government astray when it decided to adopt Linux's free software in public sector computers.

Analyst and consulting firm Gartner responded to the recent move by Linux creator Linus Torvalds and the Open Source Development Lab to formalize a process for tracking the source of Linux source code contributions.

With 334 branches spread all across the country, Muthoot Group relies primarily on a IBM High Availability Cluster Computing (HACC) server to run mission critical applications that simply cannot afford a downtime. Red Hat Linux 9 has delivered exactly that, with an unbelievable 100% uptime in over a year of operation.

Technology journal eWeek recently let the domain registration for its news site expire, causing the site to be unavailable to some visitors for several hours this week.

The BBC released details last week of its Creative Archive initiative, which will allow people to download, manipulate and share clips of BBC documentaries, without fear of breaching copyright laws. The scheme embraces the Creative Commons licensing model.

American colleges and universities are often on the cutting edge of Linux and open source use -- collaborating across campuses, enabling student and faculty open source projects, and providing unique experimentation and testing environments -- but when it comes to teaching Linux and open source development, administration, or other knowhow, it appears higher education has just been accepted for early admission.

"I've written in this space before that I'll trade performance for eye candy almost every time, so GNOME 2.6 was at a disadvantage before I even got started with it. Nothing in the quality time I spent with GNOME 2.6 the last few days has caused me to change my mind..."

Scalix, a company that sells e-mail and calendar software that runs on Linux, said this week that the city of Bloomington, Ind., and Pottawattamie County in Iowa have purchased its products. The software is based on Hewlett-Packard's OpenMail technology, which Scalix licensed.

CHICAGO -- Like it or not, within the next five years, data centers will be running most of their applications on Linux and Windows.

With nearly 30 DBAs on staff, Columbus, Ga.-based TSYS had a deep enough talent pool to spend time testing whether MySQL, the popular open source database management software, would be a viable option for the company.

Linux seller Red Hat has selected PT Bajau Escorindo to provide Red Hat-certified engineer programs and training throughout Indonesia.

Flexibility, cost savings, and efficiency have been driving enterprise users away from proprietary technology to Linux and open source. Now a recent IDC study shows that one of the last holdouts, the big-vendor-dominated market of enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, is also poised to start taking off for non-proprietary technology.

In response to Microsoft's lawsuits worldwide and to continue operating overseas, Lindows Inc. changed its product name and Web site address in April 2004 to Linspire.

Whatever you play, make your music lessons and practice sessions more productive with these music learning tools.

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