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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 '"

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  1. Uhoh by THEUBERGEEK · · Score: 5, Funny

    Time to impose sanctions, we cant have Microsoft being run out of foreign markets, it is unfair competition.
    Opps I am sorry, I had a momentary bout of insanity there

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    1. Re:Uhoh by Leroy_Brown242 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't give them ideas!

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  2. OSS Spreading by Ingolfke · · Score: 3, Funny

    In recent reports unprotected Windows boxes can have open source software* installed on them in less than 12 minutes.

    * - Many viruses are open source either by design (VBS) or through reverse engineering.

    1. Re:OSS Spreading by Locke2005 · · Score: 3, Funny

      You mean... viruses are not protected by copyright laws?!?

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  3. OMG by ill_conditioned · · Score: 3, Funny

    One-Fifth of Giant Robots run OSS!