Cabinet Office minister Tom Watson releases a document to put open source software procurement onto an equal footing with proprietary:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/feb/24/opensource-internet http://www.cio.gov.uk/transformational_government/open_source/index.asp
Despite the global recession, Gartner is still predicting that global IT spending will rise slightly:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/24/gartner_2009_it_spending/
But the recession does seem to be dampening the release of MS Office 14, which is now unlikely to happen until 2010:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=214502812&subSection=All+Stories
One third of Dell's Inspiron Mini 9 netbooks are being shipped with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed. Return rates comparable to XP this time:
http://blog.laptopmag.com/one-third-of-dell-inspiron-mini-9s-sold-run-linux
And finally. An amputee gets an interesting prosthetic from Weta Workshop - a functional mermaid's tail:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4858855a11.html
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