When members of the French parliament and their assistants return from their summer break, they will conduct parliamentary business on PCs running Ubuntu.
After the gendarmes and the Ministry of Culture, it's the French MPs' turn to switch to open source. From June 2007, PCs in French dputs' offices will be equipped with a Linux operating system and open source productivity software.
Microsoft is delighted that the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is swapping Linux for Windows - but the open source community insist it doesn't prove that Windows is superior to Linux.
Senator Eric Abetz on Wednesday launched a free open source content management system (CMS) for use by government departments and not-for-profit organisations.
A new worm that propagates by exploiting security vulnerabilities in Web server software is attacking Linux systems, warned antivirus companies on Monday in the United States.
Two years ago, software engineer Shaun Walker got an e-mail from a Microsoft product manager, suggesting ways to keep Walker's development project from foundering.
Open-source software is starting to expand into the big-ticket infrastructure-software market dominated by Microsoft and others.
Backers of Mambo are deeply divided over how to govern the open-source project.
Open standards are important, but that doesn't mean everything needs to be open, or standard.
Unlike in North America and Europe, several factors are driving a greater interest in the Asia-Pacific region for open source content management-related technologies.
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