The Department of Energy has awarded a $45 million dollar contract to DLT Solutions from Herndon VA to provide the agency with Linux information systems.
DLT was found in 1991 and employees 150 people with a revenue of $340 million in 2006. DLT is a great example of where jobs and businesses can grow and benefit with Linux in their lineup.
Not to be outdone by Dell, HP has started shipping computers in Australia with Redhat Linux, OpenOffice and Firefox installed. They also plan to expand the offering to others countries, and maybe even United States. Perhaps the water is finally start to flow over the dam and Microsoft will not be able to stop it?
I am waiting for the next attack from Microsoft on Linux. Maybe the upfront in your face attacks are over, and we will now see the more subtle “EEE” Embrace Extend and Extinguish tactics that they have perfected.
Drive a company into bankruptcy, get a bonus! Can’t say that I’m that surprised given their track record. Pamela Jones at groklaw.net goes into a lot of detail. SCO 8-k filing is also here on yahoo.
The largest state run pharmacy in Sweden has decided to replace its all if its existing IT infrastructure at its 900 pharmacies with Redhat Enterprise Linux on Intel servers. Because they deal with people’s health they wanted a system that they could really rely on. Isn’t that what we all want?
They must have forgot to read Microsoft’s “Get the Facts” campaign.
After almost 3 years of SCO “shell game” the hammer has finally dropped, and SCO has declared bankruptcy to protect its customers (snicker, snicker). The ironic part of this complete fiasco is that Novell, might be entitled to SCO’s original “licensing” fees that it initially received to fund this whole production. This occurs just after an interview 4 days ago on Sept 10 when Darl said 
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Remember customers, he is doing this all to protect you.
One of the largest food retailers in Scandinavia has made the switch and is standardizing its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. A quote from Rolf Berge the production manger at Axfood.
The one word that caught my attention from the quote was “safe” . It is different than the standard reasons of “cost-efficient”, “performance”, and “availability”. We’re all used to hearing those. “Safe” is how I feel when applications are running on Linux, “Safe” is how I feel about performance and uptime, “Safe” is how I feel that an automatic update will not crash the machine.
IBM has announced that it will be joining the OpenOffice.org community by making initial code contributions that it has been developing for Lotus Notes, as well as ongoing contributions. Should also be noted that IBM will be dedicating around 35 programmers to the effort.
To avoid vendor lock-in and avoid forced upgrade cycles of proprietary solutions the French Ministry has selected open source solutions to equip all of its local education authorities. This would account for around 2,500 servers at 30 locations.
Seems like a great success story to me, hope to hear about more of them!
The Microsoft “Flash Killer” plug-in is soon to be available on Linux.
Probably, what amazes me most is the fact that Microsoft would dedicate any amount of time and money developing and releasing software for Linux. Microsoft spends a ton of money telling you why Linux is awful, and why they just might sue the pants off you if you decide to use it. However behind the scenes they are developing and releasing software for Linux. So if Linux is such an inferior platform, why would they even bother releasing software for it?
All speculation and rumor right now, but the Google Linux Phone might just become reality at around $100. If this is true, I will be line for it.
I am finding that Google is becoming and indispensable part of my business and personal life. Still trying to decide if this bad or good.
