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Taiwanese bodies in major Linux push

Friday August 20, 2004 (10:07 PM GMT)

TAIWANESE GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS, as well as its industrial and
academic organisations, have recently started a plan, which will help
the island's industries using Linux software to turn out up to an
NT$110 billion revenue in three years. The goal includes getting
software companies using Linux to generate an NT$10 billion revenue,
and the hardware industry to gain an NT$100 billion revenue. Read more
at theinquirer.net »

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17965


Motorola and HP in Linux tie-up

Wednesday August 18, 2004 (08:20 PM GMT)

Motorola plans to sell mobile phone network equipment that uses
Linux-based code, a step forward in network gear makers' efforts to
rally around a standard. Read more at news.com »
http://news.com.com/Motorola+and+HP+in+Linux+tie-up/2100-1039_3-5311739.html


IBM Moves To Enforce GPL By Summary Judgement

Thursday August 19, 2004 (03:18 PM GMT)

gvc writes "So much for the GPL 'never being tested in court.' IBM, in
its third motion for summary judgement against SCO, is seeking a
permanent injunction against SCO's distribution of Linux, on the
grounds that SCO has renounced and violated the GPL, and therefore has
no right to distribute the 700,000 lines of IBM-copyrighted code
therein. As usual, Groklaw broke the story." We previously reported on
another IBM summary judgement from earlier this week. Read more at
Slashdot »

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/19/0534216


LinuxInsider: Micro Focus Extends Cobol Migration to Linux
(Aug 23, 2004, 01:00 UTC) (427 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"Micro Focus International, a provider of legacy application
development and deployment software, announced Wednesday that it will
provide a method for migrating legacy applications to HP and IBM Unix
and Linux servers..."

http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2004082300126OSSV


sg.samba.org: NLB Singapore Migrates to Samba
(Aug 22, 2004, 19:00 UTC) (915 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
"The National Library Board of Singapore (NLB) has completed the
migration of 52 Windows NT Domain Controllers to a Samba-based
solution in all its 26 sites nationwide..."

http://linuxtoday.com/news/2004082200826NWPB


Brazzil.com: Linux Friendly Brazil
(Aug 21, 2004, 15:00 UTC) (1636 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
"Twenty percent of all computers used by the Brazilian ministries are
running Linux and other open source software. In a few months this
number should grow to 100 percent..."

the rAT says: when wll our local ministries take a clue here... 
http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2004082100726NWDPPB


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