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Submission + - Is this the biggest rip-off ever built on open source? (itnews.com.au) 2

littlekorea writes: Australia's weather bureau has racked up bills of $38 million for a water data system, based on Red Hat Linux, MySQL and Java, that was originally scheduled to cost somewhere between $2 million and $5 million. The Bureau's supplier, an ASX-listed IT services provider SMS Management and Technology, did a good job of embedding itself in the bureau, with all changes having to be made by the original consultant that built it. Smells fishy?

Comment Re:Found yer problem (Score 1) 558

You're right, my WP7 phone (a Lumia 900) lasts way longer than my Galaxy S3... Never mind that WP7 can't run any apps in the history of ever (most notably it cant run a microsoft account-capable version of Skype, a microsoft product) but hey the battery will be there when I NEED it...

But will it work as a phone when you need it? Perhaps the experience has been enhanced for those that just want a mobile voice communications device (only one with a pretty touch screen and useless tiles).

Comment Re:Now maybe we can get some decent internet limit (Score 1) 100

Bullshit! Ahem, http://www.internode.on.net/residential/broadband/adsl/easy_broadband/ 1TB per month for AU$130 a month, less if you bundle I'm currently paying $60 a month for 60GB naked ADSL2, land line on VoIP, so no monthly rental fee to Telstra for a service I don't use. The industry in .au is changing, slowly, but it is changing ... and the NBN is one of the catalysts

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