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The French national police force has slashed its IT costs by 70 per cent by cutting Microsoft out of the equation.
There are many arguments for or against switching from Windows to Linux. Many times these arguments are based more in fanaticism than fact.

In a recent report, the French national police force, Gendarmerie Nationale, has provided some great facts supporting the switch from Windows to Linux.

In 2002, the Gendarmerie Nationale adopted a strictly open-standards IT policy in order to improve inter-organisation communications.

Until 2004, a large part of the IT budget was spent on software licences — between 12,000 and 15,000 licenses each year. In 2004, an accountant in the Gendarmerie Nationale tried OpenOffice and, after finding it a surprisingly competent replacement for its paid counterpart, started pushing for it to be adopted within the organization instead of Microsoft Office. read more..

The good folks at Mozilla are trumpeting a new report by global analytics service Net Applications that documented a 20% global market share for two out of four weeks in October. It’s a new high bar of popularity for the 2nd most popular browser in the world.

Firefox is safe, standards compliant, extensible…and not made by Microsoft. That’s what most people like about it and the number of fans is growing. Can you guess what percentage of ReadWriteWeb visitors came here using Firefox last month?

the Zend Framework 1.7 Preview Release is now available from the Zend Framework download site!

While 1.7PR is not a feature complete release in the 1.7 series, it nevertheless contains some very important features scheduled for the 1.7 production release:

• New Zend_AMF component
• Dojo Toolkit 1.2.0
• New ZendX_JQuery component
• Support for dijit editor
• Metadata API in Zend_Cache Read more…

Yahoo has re-launched IndexTools as Yahoo Web Analytics. IndexTools is a web analytics package which brought in April 2008. Yahoo Web Analytics is an enterprise site analytics tool that provides real time visitor behavior on website. With the powerful and flexible tools and dashboards, it able to provide the marketers and website designer with useful analysis reports that will enhance their visitor experience, increase sales, increase traffic and reduce marketing cost.

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As a web developer you’ve often found yourself wishing there was a way to make web applications that weren’t limited to the heavy restrictions of HTML. You’ve used JavaScript to make your forms a little more intuitive with dynamic/context driven comboboxes, but to do anything more often requires heavy amounts of JavaScript and DHTML. Even if you are a pro at it, it’s extremely time consuming to make workflow interactive and user friendly. More importantly, why would you want to be spending so much time on core UI functionality when you’re getting paid to work on business logic and workflow.

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