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		<title>The Perfect Storm &#8211; Why Now is the time for Open Source</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s open source is increasingly recognised for its ease of use, high performance and affordability, especially amidst today&#8217;s turbulent economic conditions.  According to CIO.com, 53% of businesses are already using open source. Another 10% plan to deploy in the next 12 months.]]></description>
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		<title>Cabinet Office Approves Bristol’s Open Source Plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The government’s cyber security arm has given Bristol council the go-ahead to use open source software Bristol City Council has been given the green light to push ahead with its open source strategy following a meeting with CESG, the cyber security arm of the UK intelligence services. The council first announced its intention to adopt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moorfields opens its eyes to Open Source software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An award winning electronic patient record system could help convince the NHS of the value of licence fee free software. Doctors need to be able to access patient data in the same way as air traffic controllers monitor aeroplanes, believes Bill Aylward, a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital foundation trust. &#8220;The role of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Be a Pirate? Use Open Source Software Instead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Close to half of all computer users around the world tend to get their software illegally, and business decision-makers are no exception. That&#8217;s one finding from a recent survey commissioned by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) lobby group, which reported the results in a blog post last week. &#8220;An especially troubling finding in the surveys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debunking popular Open Source myths</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The open source industry will soon reach another milestone when Linux celebrates its 20th anniversary on Aug. 25. Advocates identify five misconceptions surrounding the technology and discuss how these have since been proven false with the emergence of a viable business model. Traditionally, open source software (OSS) such as Linux was created and refined by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source: What You Can Learn From the French</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A decade ago, European countries leapt out of the gate to take the lead in the radical open source movement &#8212; none more so than France &#8212; and left U.S. developers in the proverbial dust. Through policies and high-profile projects, the French Republic for years has been advocating for all open source all the time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OpenClinica emerges as fastest-growing open source software choice for clinical trials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OpenClinica is the fastest growing open source software choice for clinical trials, according to data released by the company. Started in 2005 by Harvard alums Cal Collins and Ben Baumann, OpenClinica is already the world’s most popular open source software for web-based electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical data management (CDM). Over the last year, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Open Source Solve Big Data For SMBs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The online age has done wonders to help small companies loom larger in the public eye, but that virtual growth is not simply a marketing phenomenon. Some small and midsize businesses today find themselves contending with enterprise-like amounts of data, but without the equivalent resources to properly manage it. That&#8217;s a sentiment expressed by vendors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu Linux boosted by 10,000 seat PC win</title>
		<description><![CDATA[German insurance giant LVM embraces open source Canonical has taken the wraps off a morale-boosting deal that has seen German insurance giant LVM Versicherungen convert 10,000 PCs to use Ubuntu Linux across the company&#8217;s operations. The project included the conversion of 3,000 desktop and laptop computers in LVM&#8217;s Muenster HQ with a further 7,000 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu 11.04 gets automatic Epson printer driver download</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ubuntu 11.04 will automatically download and install the correct Epson driver for your Epson printer upon connecting it to your computer. Users of Epson printers on Linux have, until now, been advised to manually download and install drivers from the AVASYS website. From Ubuntu 11.04 onwards simply &#8216;plugging&#8217; in one of over 268 Epson inkjet [...]]]></description>
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