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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">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.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25004/1090/">http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25004/1090/</a></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">It is now being stated that 24% of
software purchases are open source:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10238426-16.html">http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10238426-16.html</a></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">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:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/it-infrastructure/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=UWWD3KM1RY1TMQSNDLPSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=217400216&amp;pgno=2">http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/it-infrastructure/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=UWWD3KM1RY1TMQSNDLPSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=217400216&amp;pgno=2</a></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Talking about operating systems the
Mac/Apple is hitting back Microsoft in their advertisement wars, here
is their latest ad:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://byronmiller.typepad.com/byronmiller/2009/05/mac-strikes-back-take-that-microsoft.html">http://byronmiller.typepad.com/byronmiller/2009/05/mac-strikes-back-take-that-microsoft.html</a></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The problem about proprietary operating
systems is about lock-in and cost, just ask the students in Missouri:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42382/135/">http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42382/135/</a></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The Apple O.S. originated from the BSD
Unix system, seemingly the Chinese Government prefers hardened
FreeBSD systems for military purposes:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/China-installs-a-secure-operating-system-on-all-military-PCs--/news/113298">http://www.h-online.com/open/China-installs-a-secure-operating-system-on-all-military-PCs--/news/113298</a></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">A new open source vector graphics
editor similar to CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator has just had its
first public release:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/05/sk1-open-source-vector-graphics-editor.html">http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/05/sk1-open-source-vector-graphics-editor.html</a></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Finally, Time magazine has produced an
article on the 10 biggest tech failures of the last decade:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1898610,00.html">http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1898610,00.html</a></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Gordon</p>
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