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About six months ago, after a chat with some local Linux evangelists, I decided to take the bold step (at least for me it was bold) to download a copy of Open Office.org 2.0. As a long standing user of successive versions of the less than brilliant but workable Microsoft Office package, I wanted to see if it was true that you really can get a professional quality and compatible office productivity package for free.

Jon “maddog” Hall is a legend in the Linux world. During his 30 year career, the executive director of non-profit Linux advocacy group, Linux International, maddog, as he prefers to be called, has worked and taught with the best of them. He will be in Sydney in late March to present to the inaugural LinuxWorld Australia conference and expo and he thinks Microsoft has a problem. Needless to say, that problem is Linux and Open Source. We caught up with maddog via Skype and he told us all about it.

A new open source software foundation, the Annodex Foundation, based on CSIRO technology, will be launched at the Australian Linux Conference being held in New Zealand this week.

Canberra school student Pascal Klein has been named by Linux Australia as the inaugural winner of the organisation's People's Choice Community Member of the Year award, giving him a free trip one of the world's top Linux technical conferences.

Panasonic Australia’s parent company, Matsushita Electric Industrial (MEI), has announced that it will phase out its 2.5G GSM mobile phone development and focus instead on accelerating its development of 3G mobile terminals on Linux.


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The President of Linux International, Jon ‘Maddog’ Hall is on a mission to Australia early next year to lead a debate about the accelerating shift to Open Source software in business and government.

Linux vendor Red Hat is now offering Red Hat Architect (RHCA) exams in Australia, which the company claims reinforces Linux's rapid move into the mainstream of technology, and its wider adoption amongst enterprises worldwide.


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Hardware vendor Sun Microsystems, whose operating system Solaris is under growing pressure from the popularity of Linux, is attempting to buy the loyalty of students and universities with a Solaris development competition offering cash prizes.

As the Open Source debate rages worldwide, Australia is set to stage four major conferences covering Open Source for the first time in one year.


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HP has formed partnerships with the two largest commercial Linux vendors in Australia, Red Hat and Novell, in a bid to capture enterprise-level customers.

Linux vendor Red Hat has established a joint performance lab with HP for customers deploying enterprise storage solutions.

The war of words between HP and Sun continues with HP Australia lauding it over its high-end server hardware rival in a $450,000 deal with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.

Linux vendor Red Hat has partnered with the Australian Computer Society (ACS) to offer ACS members discounted Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) training.

Local open source association, Open Source Victoria (OSV), has called on Australian state government agencies to join the Federal Government in adopting the OpenDocument XML file format, saying its the only way to preserve electronic documents.


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