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Government can reap benefits of IT commoditisation by embracing open source

Government departments can drive greater procurement competitiveness by looking to open source software in an increasingly ‘commoditised’ IT market, according to Tariq Rashid Lead Architect at the Home Office. read more »

Major LibreOffice update fixes 54 bugs

LibreOffice 3.6, the version of the free and open source productivity suite recommended for enterprises, got a significant update last week that fixes more than 50 bugs. read more »

Linux use in enterprises jumps again: survey

The past two years have already seen significant jumps in corporate Linux usage, but now it looks like that trend is continuing into a third year. read more »

Google pledges not to sue open-source users or developers over specified patents

Google will not sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked, the company said on Thursday. read more »

Red Hat contributes Hadoop plug-in for cloud Big Data projects

Red Hat is contributing its Red Hat Storage Hadoop plug-in to the Apache Hadoop open community to help transform Red Hat Storage into a fully-supported, Hadoop-compatible file system for Big Data environments. read more »

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LibreOffice 4.0 - Six new features coming to open source suite

It's hard to believe LibreOffice has only been around about two years, so thoroughly has it come to dominate as the leading free and open source productivity suite, but late last week a release candidate for its next major version appeared. read more »

Hadoop creator Doug Cutting outlines vision of big data platform

Doug Cutting, creator of Hadoop and founder of the Apache Hadoop Project, says big data is not hype and it's not a bubble. He lays out his vision of how Hadoop will become the Holy Grail of big data systems read more »

The 5 key forces driving open source today

From the rise of foundations to emerging revenue models, the open source movement is primed for even greater impact on tomorrow's technologies read more »

Linux voting machines re-ignite e-voting debate in Belgium

Despite vocal mistrust of e-voting, 151 Flemish municipalities in Belgium will use new electronic voting machines in October 14 elections. read more »

London 2012 Olympics website uses open source for winning results

The London 2012 Olympics begin in a matter of weeks. I bumped into Russ Ede, who is responsible for the London 2012 Olympics website, and he shared some amazing information about what it takes to create a website that can stand up to the most widely watched sports event in the world. read more »

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Citrix bequeaths Xen to the Linux Foundation

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Major LibreOffice update fixes 54 bugs

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