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The Cuban government is to migrate thousands of its computers to open-source software, in a move that distances the communist nation from US-based Microsoft.
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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PalmSource has announced a revision of its wireless-focused Cobalt operating system at its European Developer Conference in Munich.
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