LINUX USERWORLD NEWSSchlagwort sollte hier stehen WORLD NEWS LINUX WINS OVER CITY NO MORE FREE ENTRY “Schools who are using -based client-server When LinuxTag, Europe’s and outsourcing tasks to Linux and wish to continue distribution, tailor-made for biggest Linux conference and commercial service providers. with this may do so.” These schools, which is in use at expo, opens its doors for its One-day entry tickets will words, spoken by IT director ten Oslo schools. The city’s 10th anniversary in Karls- cost 15 EUR, two-day tickets Bjørn Marthinsen in the school authority had ignored ruhe/Germany, June, 22–25, 25 EUR and three/four days education department of requests to use Skolelinu so 2005, many visitors will not far, saying it didn’t be happy with the birthday want schools to present. For the first time, use Linux before it entry to the exhibition and had evaluated sev- non-business talks will cost eral options. Three money. In the past years free schools took part entry required preliminary in this evaluation, registration only. and in the end all In an open letter the Linux- 35 EUR. There will however three of them were Tag organizers explain this be discounts for students, happy. move as follows. Whereas and discounts or even free After the final they had started out as stu- admission for members of report, stating dent enthusiasts ten years open source projects. Linux was a good ago, spending every spare The business and public and cheaper alter- minute on organizing exhibi- authorities congresses which native to Win- tion and conference, they are part of LinuxTag have dows, none of the now have a career and need never allowed entry free of three schools to balance their time between charge. wanted to switch job, family and LinuxTag. http://www.linuxtag.org/ back to the previ- This, and the growth of typo3site/eintritt.0.html ous Windows-only LinuxTag, require profes- (German) solution. While sional organization including http://www.linuxtag.org/ Norway’s capital Oslo, ended Holmlia school is happy with full-time project management typo3site/8.0.html?L=1 a conflict between schools Linux on all its computers, and local school authorities the other two schools are still (see Linux Magazine issue using both operating systems, #51 / February, p13) about thus following the recom- UKRAINIAN OPENOFFICE the usage of Open Source mendation of the education Although most Ukrainians non-commercial project to solutions. The city authority’s department. In terms of speak Russian as their second produce a Ukrainian version previous veto against non- money, the best solution language – a of the office suite installations in would be a Linux only one. legacy of a OpenOffice. Oslo schools was due to its But “in some subjects country that A web-based long-term contract with Skolelinux struggles”, says once was translation tool has Siemens Business Services Claus Hageli, principal of part of the been set up in an that will not end until 2008. Ulsrud Secondary School. Soviet Union – the demand attempt to attract volunteers. The company currently pro- http://www.linux-magazine. for native Ukrainian language At the time of writing, about vides a Windows-based solu- com/issue/51/Linux_World_ software is growing. Hence it 22 percent of all strings in tion that costs schools about News.pdf is no surprise that shortly OpenOffice had been trans- 60 NOK (about 7.30 EUR) per http://www.skolelinux.org/ after the “Orange Revolution” lated. user and month. portal/index_html the Ukrainian company EMT http://ootrans.openoffice. There are several schools http://www. and Russian-based “Infra- org.ua/ who would prefer to invest utdanningsetaten.oslo. Resurs” (a company that http://www.i-rs.ru/article/ this money in a more mean- kommune.no/ actively contributes to the articleview/51 (Russian) ingful way and have therefore satsingsomrader/ikt/innsikt/ Russian OpenOffice version, http://openoffice.org.ua/ opted for “Skolelinux”, a linux/ (Norwegian) too) announced a mutual, (Ukrainian)

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BIGGEST EUROPEAN RAILWAY COMPANY TO RUN LINUX Following Chinese Railway’s SAP services to Suse Linux. move, introducing Turbolinux By the end of the year, all to shuffle parcels across the remaining servers, among country (see issue #45 / them the company’s web, August 2004, p13), Europe’s database, and application biggest Railway Company, servers are expected to move Germany’s “Deutsche Bahn”, over to Linux. is now set to follow suit. The Deutsche Bahn has always company announced that had a certain sympathy for ’s “Suse Linux Enter- Linux. The railway com- prise Server” would be its pany’s reliable Linux-driven new strategic IT platform online timetable query sys- now that its internal IT ser- tem (bahn.hafas.de), which vice provider, “DB Systems”, is popular beyond Germany, has successfully finished the was one of the first known first phase of the migration commercial Linux adopters in project announced in October Germany. 2004. The first stage affects http://www.linux-magazine. 55,000 users who had previ- com/issue/45/Linux_World_ ously used Lotus Notes, and News.pdf about half of the company’s http://presse.vibrio.de/ servers. servlet/objecthandling? The second phase, which is oid=34583 (German) currently being implemented, http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/ migrates Deutsche Bahn’s bin/query.exe/e DB AG / DB AG / Schulz

IBM’S LINUX TOP 1: MALAYSIA No one would be surprised to system is being adopted in hear that India was IBM’s top the business, government, business target in the South- and the academic sector East Asian Linux market. But throughout the country, according to Hemant Shah while the dissemination of from IBM Singapore, respon- Linux in Malaysia is mainly sible for strategic growth driven by the public sector. business for South and Hence there is an “if”- South-East Asia, “Malaysia is clause to Hemant Shah’s currently the biggest market Malaysia-first prediction: for our Linux products in “With official support in South-East Asia.” place, we see more growth India comes in second, potential for Linux here than although the open source elsewhere in this region.”