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SW Education graduates to virtualization

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| The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) has completed an
| 18-month project to enable virtualization across its x86
| infrastructure resulting in over 100 virtual servers in production.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1048943436&rid=-50

Also today:

Red Hat Selects Groundwork Open Source As Pioneer On Red Hat Exchange

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| GroundWork Open Source, a service provider in the field of open
| source IT Management, announced that GroundWork's systems and
| network management software has been selected by Red Hat as a
| pioneering open source application to be offered on Red Hat Exchange.
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http://opensourceblog.itproportal.com/?p=346


Related:

Linux FlyBuys into financial transactions

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| Linux may be an operating system synonymous with a flightless
| bird, but Loyalty Pacific, the company behind popular retail
| loyalty and rewards program FlyBuys, has announced it will
| jet its infrastructure to open source software.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;668053298;fp;2;fpid;1


NSW education strengthens ID management

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| The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) has rolled out
| a department-wide ID management system to increase the speed and
| transparency of its user authentication system portals.
|
| [...]
|
| DET conducted a pilot run of the Linux-based management system
| before implementing it over the 2005 Summer leave.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id%3b47582405%3bfp%3b4%3bfpid%3b1968336438


Aussie CIOs get clearer vista on open source

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| Wotif.com's Paul Young told ZDNet Australia that he decided to
| base the company's infrastructure on Red Hat Linux five years
| ago and since that time, his developers have contributed codeb
| ack into the open source community.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Aussie_CIOs_get_clearer_vista_on_open_source/0,130061733,339273490,00.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3cdltq


School turns to open source to cut cost, foster student thinking

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| The school's workstations operate on the Mandriva 2006 Operating System,
| and run free and open source software options including: Open Office
| for office applications; Mozilla Firefox for Web browsing; GIMP for
| image editing; and Evolution mail for sending and receiving e-mail.
|
| At the core of the network is a simple HP ProLiant ML 110 server
| running Mandrake 10.1, NIS and NFS, and that connects to the Internet
| via a 1.5Mbps broadband connection.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1708539119;fp;2;fpid;1


Sydney school tames twofold IT shop

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| SCEGGS has about 830 students, 100 staff, 500 desktops, 200
| laptops, 13 servers, and an IT team of eight.
|
| The school's mail is delivered with the Postfix MTA on Linux and
| gets distributed to GroupWise.
|
| "We have moved the Linux servers to a clustered file system with
| OCFS2 which is supported natively in SUSE 10 and the data is stored
| in an Apple raid array with 1.8TB of storage,' Ralph said.
|
| Also in use are a number of MySQL-based applications for learning
| management systems. The school is now moving off one open source
| application, AUC, which it has used since 1999, to Moodle, a modern
| learning and content management system.
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