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OSS in One-Fifth of Japanese Businesses

Posted by Zonk on from the penguins-abroad dept.

WillAffleck writes "According to a recent Infoworld article, one-fifth of all Japanese businesses now use Open Source operating systems. From the article: 'By contrast, 33 percent of U.S. companies have adopted open-source operating systems in at least some of their servers, MIC said. Among the companies polled by the MIC, 66 percent said open-source operating systems have low initial costs, while 47.8 percent said the software has low operating costs '"

3 of 99 comments (clear)

  1. rearry? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's arot.

  2. 1/6th of Slashdotters don't really care... by garcia · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This is the year 2005. Do Slashdotters really care about 20% of Japanese business using Linux? These would have have been impressive numbers in 1999.

    Who cares if it's less than what the US has? Maybe if the numbers were *higher* than the US then I'd be interested. "Look, foreign companies are adopting Linux faster than American companies."

    That's not the case. Move along.

  3. Re:free oss? by Leroy_Brown242 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Support costs money.

    Until OSS nuts realise that, they are just ranting.

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