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http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39123580,00.htm

Schwarzenegger the new Torvalds?
August 31 2004
by David Becker
California efficiency push could mean more open source.

California lawmakers and administrators got an earful on 
open source software Friday - a state government panel 
considered proposals that would boost government use of 
Linux and other technologies.

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Making Microsoft a niche player
Novell engineer and manager Allison Singh recently predicted 
in an Africa-based tectonic magazine article that Windows will 
become a niche operating system, replaced by Linux as the new 
standard. A gestalt of recent trends, events, and stories should 
tell you that this prediction is right on the money. A gestalt, 
by the way, is a perception or conclusion that goes beyond the 
sum of its parts. Here are three of the many parts that comprise 
the gestalt.

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/08/27/1353219
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Microsoft Makes More Open-Source Overtures
sjvn writes "Microsoft is reaching out further to the open-source 
community with offers of joint development and testing, but some 
wonder about the company's sincerity."

http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/08/30/1646236
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Sun woos Wall Street with new OS
August 27 2004
by Michael Kanellos
Loving and fighting Linux

The push for Opteron, however, does mean that at least for now, 
Sun must promote Linux. Approximately 70 per cent to 80 per cent 
of Sun's Opteron servers ship with Linux, Fowler said.

http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39123539,00.htm

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Orion delivers first 'personal cluster' workstation
Deskside Linux workhorse

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/30/orion_delivers_personal_cluster/

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Windows Not Expected Secure Until 2011, Says MS
Rantastic writes "In a recent interview with Wired Magazine, 
Microsoft Security Program Manager Stephen Toulouse, when 
asked about their now 2 year old focus on security, comments 
"it's more of a 10-year timeline." He also reveals that he 
runs Firefox."

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/30/1835212

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