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27 posts from October 2010
Wikimedia chooses Ubuntu for all of its servers
By Canonical, 4 October 2010
Background Most people with a passing acquaintance with a browser or Google search know Wikipedia, the web-based encyclopedia spanning topics from the...
The weird and wonderful world of Latin Extended B
By Canonical, 4 October 2010
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...
Wavesat uses Bazaar Version Control to increase developer productivity
By Canonical, 4 October 2010
Summary As a leading provider of wireless solutions to global telecommunication carriers and device manufacturers, Wavesat runs a tight schedule of multiple...
The UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital maximise resources with standardised infrastructure
By Canonical, 4 October 2010
Canonical partner Fry-IT implements a high-performing infrastructure based on Ubuntu Server Edition The UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street...
Oakland University replaces UNIX with Ubuntu
By Canonical, 4 October 2010
Company overview Oakland University, a state-supported college in Rochester, Mich., teaches some 18,000 students across its liberal arts, business...
Metal Sales deploys mission-critical servers five times faster with Ubuntu
By Canonical, 4 October 2010
US-based Metal Sales Manufacturing needed to upgrade its server infrastructure so that it could accelerate processes, integrate new applications and scale to...
Landscape contributes to the doubling of Context Media’s advertising performance
By Canonical, 4 October 2010
Chicago-based company Context Media builds waiting room TV networks that help healthcare professionals educate and inspire their patients as they make crucial...
Emphony Technologies achieves 100 per cent uptime with Ubuntu
By Canonical, 4 October 2010
New business Emphony Technologies needed to implement a cost-effective, reliable and available IT infrastructure. It wanted to introduce a server environment...
Chicago-based financial services company chooses Ubuntu and cuts server infrastructure by 70 per cent
By Canonical, 4 October 2010
Financial services company Equitec was running its mission-critical, proprietary trading software on 100 Windows-based servers. After experiencing a series of...
Film site reduces upgrade times from days to minutes
By Canonical, 4 October 2010
Kinopoisk (http://www.kinopoisk.ru/), a Russian film website similar to IMDb, needed to implement a new server infrastructure that would simplify maintenance...
Ubuntu is the open source platform of choice for Oxford Archaeology
By Canonical, 4 October 2010
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...
PlusServer deploys Landscape Dedicated Server and achieves a rapid return on investment
By Canonical, 4 October 2010
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...