Linux cuts Kent Police system costs by 90%, Jul 05, 2006

Kent Police has cut the cost of running its major criminal investigations system by 90% using Novell Open Enterprise Server, the company's version of SuSE Linux.

Despite all the talk of offshoring software development to developing nations, computer and electronics giant Toshiba is expanding its Sydney research and development centre, which uses Linux as its platform of choice.

The vote is (unofficially, and off the record) in. Regulators from the European Union's 25 member countries have, according to reports, unanimously found Microsoft guilty of non-compliance with the commission's landmark 2004 anti-trust ruling.

The Portland Project has released a beta version of its programming interfaces for the Gnome and KDE Linux environments. This is designed to boost development of desktop Linux applications by creating common application programming interfaces (APIs) for developers to use.

The back and forth is emblematic of Sun's efforts to embrace the open-source movement. Executives like Phipps frequently point to the company's open-software roots in the 1980s, and Sun's major contributions to high-profile projects ranging from Mozilla's Firefox Web browser to the OpenOffice project to the Apache Web server.

Linux Australia's battle against proposed copyright laws had the Attorney General's Department a tad confused yesterday.

The City of Munich has insisted it is on track with its massive Linux migration, in the face of claims in the German Senate that the project seemed to have failed before it ever got off the ground.

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