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4 October 2010

The weird and wonderful world of Latin Extended B

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Below, Amelie Bonet from the Dalton Maag design team shares her thoughts: Latin Extended B is a block (0180-024F) within the Unicode standard. With its utterly mundane name no-one would guess the wealth of shapes and glyphs. This specific and somehow obscure character set gathers 195 glyphs supporting a good mix of languages from Romania ...

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4 October 2010

Wavesat uses Bazaar Version Control to increase developer productivity

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Summary As a leading provider of wireless solutions to global telecommunication carriers and device manufacturers, Wavesat runs a tight schedule of multiple projects. Despite their many years of experience successfully bringing leading edge solutions to market they wanted to improve their productivity and efficiency. In particular, they w ...

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4 October 2010

The UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital maximise resources with standardised infrastructure

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Canonical partner Fry-IT implements a high-performing infrastructure based on Ubuntu Server Edition The UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital wanted to replace the disparate server infrastructure on which their joint website was running. The Institute of Child Health decided to introduce a cost-effective solution ...

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4 October 2010

Oakland University replaces UNIX with Ubuntu

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Company overview Oakland University, a state-supported college in Rochester, Mich., teaches some 18,000 students across its liberal arts, business administration, health sciences, engineering and computer science schools. The 3,000-student School of Engineering and Computer Science (SECS), like many like-minded institutes, has deep roots ...

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4 October 2010

Metal Sales deploys mission-critical servers five times faster with Ubuntu

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US-based Metal Sales Manufacturing needed to upgrade its server infrastructure so that it could accelerate processes, integrate new applications and scale to meet future requirements. The company needed to implement a cost-effective solution that could improve efficiencies across the organisation. Metal Sales chose to implement Ubuntu Ser ...

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4 October 2010

Landscape contributes to the doubling of Context Media’s advertising performance

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Chicago-based company Context Media builds waiting room TV networks that help healthcare professionals educate and inspire their patients as they make crucial decisions about their lifestyle and clinical treatment. IT is critical to the company. Context Media operates approximately 600 video terminals across the United States and system u ...

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4 October 2010

Emphony Technologies achieves 100 per cent uptime with Ubuntu

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New business Emphony Technologies needed to implement a cost-effective, reliable and available IT infrastructure. It wanted to introduce a server environment on which its infrastructure that project management applications and common workloads could both run. The company chose to implement Ubuntu Server Edition. As a result, the organisat ...

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4 October 2010

Chicago-based financial services company chooses Ubuntu and cuts server infrastructure by 70 per cent

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Financial services company Equitec was running its mission-critical, proprietary trading software on 100 Windows-based servers. After experiencing a series of performance issues, the company decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Now Equitec can run its entire workload on just 30 Ubuntu-based servers, which equates to a dramatic hardware, ...

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4 October 2010

Film site reduces upgrade times from days to minutes

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Kinopoisk (http://www.kinopoisk.ru/), a Russian film website similar to IMDb, needed to implement a new server infrastructure that would simplify maintenance and scale to meet its future requirements. After testing a range of server technologies, the company chose to introduce 15 servers based on Ubuntu Server Edition. As a result, it has ...

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4 October 2010

Ubuntu is the open source platform of choice for Oxford Archaeology

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Out with the proprietary software and in with open source. Moving to Ubuntu is proving to be an excellent decision by Oxford Archaeology. Background Oxford Archaeology, as its name implies, is no high-tech newbie. The company, self described as an expert in excavation and heritage management, was founded in 1973 in Oxford, England and has ...

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4 October 2010

PlusServer deploys Landscape Dedicated Server and achieves a rapid return on investment

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Summary German hosting provider PlusServer AG runs 70 per cent of its internal systems and 15 per cent of customer servers on Ubuntu. To reduce time spent on routine maintenance and improve control over updates, the company rolled out Landscape Dedicated Server from Canonical. With Landscape, PlusServer administrators can manage multiple ...

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