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20050728 Donnerstag Juli 28, 2005

Mozilla staff quadrupled
"Mozilla's Firefox has now been downloaded 75 million times, and Thunderbird, the open-source e-mail reader also from Mozilla, has reached its 10 millionth download. To mark the occasion, the Mozilla Foundation said it was expanding in several directions. The Mozilla staff itself has quadrupled during the past six months, to 40 employees, making this a good time for the Foundation."
The full article can be found here.
( Jul 28 2005, 08:02:42 AM CEST ) Permalink


OpenOffice.org at Australian community center
"With 65 user accounts and counting, The Hut's network now includes 10 Ubuntu workstations running GNOME, OpenOffice.org, Evolution, and Firefox, an application server, a gateway box, and a backup server. There is also a dual-boot workstation and two strictly Windows boxes that sit on the network but don't rely on the file server."
The full article can be found here.
( Jul 28 2005, 07:59:35 AM CEST ) Permalink


Xandros Business Desktop & StarOffice
"Over 1,000 businesses have taken up Xandros Inc's Enterprise Linux Challenge to try out its Business Desktop Linux operating system, according to the company, indicating strong potential demand for the new product. ... The product includes Sun Microsystems Inc's StarOffice, Xandros Anti-Virus and Xandros Firewall security features, and a bundle is available with the xDMS Xandros Desktop Management Server for mass deployment."
The full article can be found here.
( Jul 28 2005, 07:56:20 AM CEST ) Permalink



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