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"Migration"

Canonical
16 March 2011

Moodlerooms boosts reliability with Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Advantage

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Ubuntu Advantage subscription service resolves issues, fast Summary Solution provider Moodlerooms provides a range of educational tools for universities and schools. With hundreds of thousands of users at any one time, Moodlerooms must ensure that its tools are based on a robust, available infrastructure. The company chose to update its e ...

Canonical
17 February 2011

Legislators in Kerala, India work better with Ubuntu laptops

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Tens of thousands of dollars saved on software licensing Summary The Government of Kerala wanted to provide 141 members of its legislative assembly with new laptop computers to help increase productivity and collaboration. Working with Canonical partner Zyxware Technologies and the active support of the Free Software Community in Trivandr ...

Canonical
11 February 2011

10 reasons to migrate

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The computing world is extremely polarised when it comes to proprietary vs. open source, and a million industry voices tell a million different stories. Even so, there are still very real differences between the two philosophies and technologies. This white paper focuses on just a few of them, giving you 10 great reasons to migrate ...

admin
16 December 2010

Skalica City Hall reduces costs by 70 per cent with Ubuntu

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Landscape systems management simplifies maintenance Summary Based in Slovakia, the Skalica City Hall IT team must provide a reliable and easy-to-use desktop infrastructure to 120 users. The team found that its existing Microsoft Windows XP-based environment was too expensive to upgrade. It decided to switch to Ubuntu Desktop Edition and a ...

Canonical
10 November 2010

AMTRON delivers 28,000 Ubuntu-based PCs to students in Assam

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India-based government information and communication technologies (ICT) provider The Assam Electronics Development Corporation (AMTRON) needed to provide every Assam student who achieved 60 per cent or higher in their school leaving exams with a free PC. AMTRON needed to comply with strict budgets to deliver reliable, easy-to-use PCs to t ...

Canonical
10 November 2010

La Gendarmerie Nationale upgrades 85,000 PCs to Ubuntu Desktop Edition

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Summary La Gendarmerie Nationale's IT team must ensure that the police force can provide a responsive and cost-effective service nationwide. With growing IT infrastructure costs, the organisation decided to review its existing Microsoft based environment. After switching from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org and Internet Explorer to Fir ...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Wikimedia chooses Ubuntu for all of its servers

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Background Most people with a passing acquaintance with a browser or Google search know Wikipedia, the web-based encyclopedia spanning topics from the ridiculous to the sublime. Want Britney Spear’s bio? It’s there. Want a quick briefing in quantum mechanics? It too, is there. Type the name of a subject into any online search engine and ...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Oakland University replaces UNIX with Ubuntu

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Company overview Oakland University, a state-supported college in Rochester, Mich., teaches some 18,000 students across its liberal arts, business administration, health sciences, engineering and computer science schools. The 3,000-student School of Engineering and Computer Science (SECS), like many like-minded institutes, has deep roots ...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Chicago-based financial services company chooses Ubuntu and cuts server infrastructure by 70 per cent

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Financial services company Equitec was running its mission-critical, proprietary trading software on 100 Windows-based servers. After experiencing a series of performance issues, the company decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Now Equitec can run its entire workload on just 30 Ubuntu-based servers, which equates to a dramatic hardware, ...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Ubuntu is the open source platform of choice for Oxford Archaeology

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Out with the proprietary software and in with open source. Moving to Ubuntu is proving to be an excellent decision by Oxford Archaeology. Background Oxford Archaeology, as its name implies, is no high-tech newbie. The company, self described as an expert in excavation and heritage management, was founded in 1973 in Oxford, England and has ...

Canonical
30 September 2010

Ubuntu proved the optimal choice for a non-profit radio station

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Simplicity in switching, ease-of-use, great client/server side management and outstanding reliability – Ubuntu proved the best choice for KRUU-FM Radio Station. Background KRUU-FM, a non-profit community radio station based in Iowa, USA, broadcasts locally 24 hours a day via an FM signal, and online to 30 countries via an MP3 audio stream ...

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