A leaked report from the British Educational Communications and Technology Association contains bad news for software vendors such as Microsoft.
The UK government is carrying out nine Linux tests with IBM, to find out how much it could save by switching to open source.
More than 7,000 angry Linux users have protested against the European Union after it excluded them from viewing streaming videos.
The South Korean government plans to showcase the use of Linux, by paying for a city and a university to deploy the software on their servers and desktops.
The city of Amsterdam has become the latest high-profile public sector organisation to evaluate the potential of open-source software.
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In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards -- not cost -- is driving the German city's shift to Linux.
Lycoris has released an add-on for its desktop version of Linux that lets Microsoft applications run without the need to pay for a Windows software licence.
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Executive Irving Wladawsky-Berger helped steer Big Blue to the Internet, Linux and open-source computing. His newest mission: grid computing.
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