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"Europe"

Lidia Luna Puerta
3 September 2025

54% of European enterprises want long term open source support: how Ubuntu Pro + Support delivers

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Europe’s open source ecosystem is at a turning point. The Linux Foundation’s Open Source as Europe’s Strategic Advantage: Trends, Barriers, and Priorities for the European Open Source Community amid Regulatory and Geopolitical Shifts report shows organizations across the continent are broadly adopting open source software (OSS). But adopt ...

Chris Kenyon
23 March 2016

Tele2 begins major shift to cloud with Canonical

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Tele2, one of Europe’s most innovative telecom operators, announced today that it will move its Network and IT infrastructure to the cloud to pave the way for future investment and network build out to 5G. This move puts Tele2 at the vanguard of the move to Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), a once in a generation change ...

Canonical
17 February 2016

Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition launches globally

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Highest specification Ubuntu phone launches internationally with Meizu Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition available for pre-order during Mobile World Congress 2016 Host of new features: the fifth Ubuntu device launched by Canonical and partners in 12 months Chinese smartphone manufacturer Meizu, jointly with Canonical, announces the global launch ...

Canonical
24 January 2012

JT Global standardises mission-critical production system on Ubuntu

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Virtualised Ubuntu environment delivers datacentre power and cooling savings of £2,800 per year Summary JT Global, formerly Jersey Telecom, is a leading communications provider in the Channel Islands. It delivers ADSL services to 38,000 subscribers via an extensive IT infrastructure that incorporates public DNS servers, authentication ser ...

admin
16 December 2010

Skalica City Hall reduces costs by 70 per cent with Ubuntu

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Landscape systems management simplifies maintenance Summary Based in Slovakia, the Skalica City Hall IT team must provide a reliable and easy-to-use desktop infrastructure to 120 users. The team found that its existing Microsoft Windows XP-based environment was too expensive to upgrade. It decided to switch to Ubuntu Desktop Edition and a ...

Canonical
10 November 2010

La Gendarmerie Nationale upgrades 85,000 PCs to Ubuntu Desktop Edition

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Summary La Gendarmerie Nationale's IT team must ensure that the police force can provide a responsive and cost-effective service nationwide. With growing IT infrastructure costs, the organisation decided to review its existing Microsoft based environment. After switching from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org and Internet Explorer to Fir ...

Canonical
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 ...

Canonical
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 ...

Canonical
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 ...

Canonical
30 September 2010

Ubuntu provides a secure and easily accessible system for german pilots

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Enhanced security, outstanding support and reduced maintenance times – Ubuntu was the optimal choice for Contact Air GmbH. Summary Contact Air is a regional airline operating exclusively for Lufthansa German Airlines. They run a fleet of 13 turboprop aircraft flown by 120 pilots using notebooks for performance calculations, logging, train ...

Canonical
30 September 2010

Ubuntu delivers significant cost-savings for specialist sports school

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Stability, reduced maintenance and significant cost-savings – Ubuntu proved an outstanding choice for Skegness Grammar School. Background Skegness Grammar School is a small selective school on the Lincolnshire coast. It acts as a specialist college for sport for nearly 800 pupils, and has a boarding provision for around 60. Alistair Crust ...

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