[dundee] 2 IT specialists go cold turkey for a month without windows and use GNU/Linux

[gordon dunlop]

First of all, two Windows I.T. specialists are going cold turkey with
Windows for a month and are going to use GNU/Linux. Their comments at the
end of the exercise will be interesting, are they going to survive? We will
wait and see.


 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25004/1090/


 It is now being stated that 24% of software purchases are open source:


 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10238426-16.html


 Wall Street has announced that it is opening doors to open source
technology, the very people that started the financial crisis, is this about
locking the stable door after the horse has bolted? I do find this link
annoying with their ads covering the article:



http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/it-infrastructure/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=UWWD3KM1RY1TMQSNDLPSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=217400216&pgno=2


 Talking about operating systems the Mac/Apple is hitting back Microsoft in
their advertisement wars, here is their latest ad:



http://byronmiller.typepad.com/byronmiller/2009/05/mac-strikes-back-take-that-microsoft.html


 The problem about proprietary operating systems is about lock-in and cost,
just ask the students in Missouri:


 http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42382/135/


 The Apple O.S. originated from the BSD Unix system, seemingly the Chinese
Government prefers hardened FreeBSD systems for military purposes:



http://www.h-online.com/open/China-installs-a-secure-operating-system-on-all-military-PCs--/news/113298


 A new open source vector graphics editor similar to CorelDRAW or Adobe
Illustrator has just had its first public release:



http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/05/sk1-open-source-vector-graphics-editor.html


 Finally, Time magazine has produced an article on the 10 biggest tech
failures of the last decade:



http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1898610,00.html



 Gordon
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