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Israeli Gov't Begins Testing Mandrake Linux

Posted by timothy on from the right-to-left dept.

DJStealth writes "According to this article on Arutz 7/Israel National News, the Israeli Gov't is beginning to move away from Microsoft and is testing localized versions of Mandrake Linux in the Treasury dept. as the contract with MS expires this month. This all despite a recent defense ministry contact with MS."

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  1. In other news... by davidstrauss · · Score: 5, Funny

    Palestinian officials respond by rejecting Mandrake in favor of *BSD.

  2. Re:Is this a growing trend in business? by KoolDude · · Score: 5, Funny


    Ask any economist, this is "the standard business model" today.

    Nope. We're talking about Microsoft here. They *never* stick to the standards. :)

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  3. Re:Good move. by Savage-Rabbit · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is a wise move for Israel that I hope will be duplicated all over the world,

    Which would really piss off the US intelligence community..... Which in turn is probably one of the Israeli's motives. I bet the CIA gets a small collective panic attack every time they lose track of what the Israelis are upto.

    AAAHHHHHHHHH......There is nothing like a good conspiracy theory to start the day!!!!

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  4. Re:Office 97 functionality by MoonFog · · Score: 5, Funny

    What the hell more can a company add? Talking paperclips?

    SHHH! They might hear you! ;)