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March 25, 2008 | Comments: (0)

Test Center Tracker: Greener docs and a six-month itch

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In the Tracker today, we look at a Xerox tool to help green your document processing, and another look at the latest Ubuntu beta, this time from the enterprise desktop perspective.

Calculate your doc's greenness: Saying that you want your operations to be more environmentally sound is easy -- figuring out just how much impact your decisions have is much more difficult. In Sustainable IT, Ted Samson looks at a new Sustainability Calculator from Xerox. The tool is designed to help companies evaluate their document processing operations -- one of the back-office areas that could certainly use help from an environmental perspective. According to Ted, the calculator can be used for more than marketing hype since it points out practices that have significant impact on a company's environmental footprint.

Another Ubuntu beta view: Faithful readers were pointed to a Test Center Review of Ubuntu beta 8.04, and today we give you another opinion. Enterprise Desktop blogger Randall Kennedy has been looking at the latest from Ubuntu with a decidedly enterprise bent, and he has some questions -- like, what else is available? It's not that he doesn't like Ubuntu, but Kennedy has been experimenting with desktop operating systems and he's reached the conclusion that there are many paths to possible happiness. Head over to see what he's discovered -- and see if you can help him figure out the answers to the big questions.

Posted by Curt Franklin on March 25, 2008 11:10 AM

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