“Why netbooks are killing Microsoft”

There’s an article on InfoWorld about netbooks and the impact they’re having on Microsoft’s bottom line:
“Why is all this bad news for Microsoft? First, an estimated 30 percent of all netbooks ship with Linux. That means Microsoft doesn’t get a penny for Windows from 30 percent of all netbooks being sold. Given that netbooks represent [...]

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Innovative’s Research Pro at LPL

I was just going through the London Public Library’s web site, looking to find an article from The Serials Librarian. I ran into LPL’s new “Research Pro” federated search interface (by III). Either the product itself or LPL’s implementation of it wasn’t quite ready for prime time.
Besides not working with Safari(!), “Tips” were added to [...]

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Evergreen 1.4.0.2 Available

The Evergreen developers have just announced that version 1.4.0.2 has been released, along with OpenSRF 1.0.4. From the announcement:
This release adds functionality, configuration, and usability
improvements including, but not limited to, the following areas:

Improved administrative interfaces for defining organizations and permissions
Internationalization and localization (Armenian (hy-AM), Canadian French (fr-CA), Canadian English (en-CA), and Czech (cs-CZ))
Multi-source Z39.50 [...]

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