My company has a customer whose users are all field personnel equipped with laptops. Those mobile users needed a remote backup solution that saved data to a central location. I’m sharing their story with you because, with help from Ubuntu, my company was able to resolve a major data management headache.

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I recently decided to upgrade to OpenOffice 3. As many users know, the Ubuntu developers made the controversial decision not to include OO 3, released in mid-October 2008, in Ubuntu 8.10 (a.k.a “Intrepid Ibex”), out of concerns that it would not be stable enough and would disrupt the Intrepid development schedule (which is strange given the decision to ship 8.04 with Firefox 3 beta as the default browser). But I still made the move to OpenOffice 3.

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Ubuntu 8.10, released at the end of October, includes several notable enhancements to the Server Edition.  These new features augment the usability and versatility of Ubuntu on servers, but given the short lifespan of Ubuntu 8.10, I’m left wondering how many system administrators are going to use it.

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